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Calling all business students and students of business: Pocket MBA shrinks a complete MBA coursebook to iPhone size. The app originally sold for $29.99, but right now you can get it free from the iTunes App Store. Based on the work of Jae K. Shim (co-author of "The Vest-Pocket MBA"), Pocket MBA c...
Opening a Web browser to check the news is for suckers. Wouldn't it be better if your very desktop housed live, constantly updated snippets of Web pages? That way you could keep all sorts of useful information at your fingertips. Ten years ago, something very much like that -- then called "Active De...
Looking to set up a meeting with a new client? Get ready to play a few rounds of "those times don't work for me, what about next Tuesday instead?" And if you're trying to schedule several people at once, it's even worse. What you need is a Web app that can sync with your calendar and make it easy to...
If you're one of the few, the proud, the Android-phone owners, here's exciting news: There's a new public beta of Evernote for Android. What's Evernote, you ask? Only one of our all-time favorite productivity tools. With it you can capture and organize all kinds of notes: text, audio, photos, etc...
Ah, October. The time of year when we ask ourselves why Major League Baseball insists on forcing players and fans alike to endure cold, rain, and even the occasional bit of snow. (If you live in the East or Midwest and have attended a game recently, you know what I mean.) Anyway, with baseball...
Online storage sites like Dropbox have made it a snap to share files among a variety of PCs and locations -- desktop and laptop, work and home, you and co-workers. Dropbox, in fact, is a favorite of ours, in part because it offers as much as 3GB for free (followed by several tiers of paid service). ...
Using mobile phones on the road is something of a contentious issue; even Business Hacks is evenly split with Rick taking the shrill, emotional position and Dave siding with logic and reason in a recent Guy Vs Guy. But two recent developments threaten to change the way you interact with your cell...
Remember BackTweets, the service that searches for tweets pertaining to a specific URL? Here's a tool that does it one better: TweetAlarm notifies you when someone tweets about your company or product. To get started with TweetAlarm, just enter your e-mail address, a password, your Twitter userna...
You just plopped down in seat 22B when suddenly you realize, "Oh, no! I forgot to record Modern Family!" (Funniest new show of the year, bar none.) No worries: Just pull out your BlackBerry, fire up the new TiVo for BlackBerry app, and program your TiVo. Right there. On the airplane. Even the iPh...
I've been using the Palm Pre for some months now, and I share the same lament as many other Pre owners: The battery life is kind of horrid. If I forget to charge my Pre overnight, I end up with a dead phone late the next day. But thanks to a new app, I can manage the phone's power and get it to last...
Imagine yourself in a strange city on a business trip, and, since you're not in Seattle, there isn't a Starbucks on every street corner. Instead, there's one on every second corner. How do you get your coffee fix? You could use Google, but that's for suckers. Instead, you pull out your iPhone and ze...
Forget spending big bucks on OCR software. Now Google Docs can do OCR, turning nearly any digital image into editable text. Actually, this feature is in the testing stage at the moment, but you can try it out for yourself. Just upload any JPEG, GIF, or PNG image that's 10MB or less. The smaller t...
Before you set foot on another airplane, read this.
App launchers are a dime a dozen. But every once in a while a pretty elegant solution comes along that really does save time, reduce mouse clicks, and improve your Windows experience. I've got one that fits that bill. MouseExtender pops a customizable grid of program directly under your mouse...
How much time and effort have you spent on the lighting in your office -- at work or at home? If you're a cubicle drone, there might not be much you can do about your canned lighting, but if you work from home at least some of the time, then investing in a smart lighting solution can make you mor...
