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To those of you who think Twitter is a waste of time, I offer you this: Dealbase has compiled a list of various hotels, airlines, and travel booking sites that tweet about discounts and deals. In other words, if you're looking to save on travel expenses (and who isn't?), here's an easy and convenien...
We all know that Excel can make some gorgeous charts and graphs, but if you are like 30 Rock's Liz Lemon and don't know your scatter plot from your triangle graph ("I don't know. It sounded real!"), then you should let Excel analyze your data and choose the best kind of chart all on its own. ...
I'm reaching the point where my iPhone is almost more important than my laptop when I travel. After all, my iPhone is chock full of apps that are optimized for specific jobs. With that in mind, I rounded up seven essential apps that I wouldn't be caught dead without on my next trip away from home or...
Whiteboards, a.k.a. dry-erase boards, are undeniably handy for presentations, meetings, and other day-to-day business endeavors. Unfortunately, they're also expensive, difficult to mount, and hard on the decor. Enter Markee Dry-Erase Paint, which turns any painted wall into a dry-erase board. How...
Whoops! We may be a day late with this weekly roundup, but a dollar short? Definitely not. Just look at what you missed, or overlooked, or should look at again, from last week: Start Using Microsoft Office Web Apps -- Today Find Broken Links in Your Word Documents with Document Hyperlink Check...
Web pages are pretty much designed to waste ink. They're packed with frames and banners and ads and all sorts of debris that you don't want or need when you try to print something. You can choose to print a selection, and that sometimes helps, but you've probably found yourself wishing you could jus...
If you've ever had to edit a document to purge corporate confidential or personally identifiable information, you know it's not a fun exercise. You either need to edit the document by deleting the data outright -- and that means rewriting it so it still makes grammatical sense -- or getting fanc...
Checking multiple Gmail accounts drives me nuts -- I hate having to log in and out of Gmail on my browser just to see if I have any new messages. In fact, one of my favorite things about my iPhone is that it can manage multiple Gmail accounts at once. But I've found a great way to do pretty much the...
It has finally happened -- on par with California sliding into the sea and baseball becoming interesting, AT&T has enabled multimedia messaging on the iPhone. You can now send photos as easily as text messages from your phone to other phones or PCs. To turn on MMS, connect your iPhone to ...
As you've probably noticed, Dave's posts are often riddled with spelling errors. That's because he refuses to use Firefox, which features a built-in spell-checker. Internet Explorer offers no such amenity, so every time Dave composes a post in WordPress, adds a comment to a post, writes something...
Ready to Wi-Fi the friendly skies? Delta is offering a free trial of its new Gogo Inflight Internet service, which is currently available on select routes. Just look for the "Wi-Fi Onboard" logo the next time you hop a Delta flight. If your plane has it, fire up your laptop (or phone), connect to...
Need more room on your desktop? You can invest in dual monitors or use any of the many virtual desktop managers that let you create multiple, independent workspaces in which to manage your programs and windows. Recently, though, I found an intriguing alternative. 360Desktop gives yo...
I've rounded up five new resume tips that, while they might seem to go against traditional resume wisdom, actually promise to dramatically improve your ob prospects.
Now that 802.11n Wi-Fi is finally final, you may want to start upgrading your PCs to take advantage of it (assuming you have an 802.11n router, of course). That means buying new Wi-Fi adapters to replace your existing ones. Cutest, smallest, and most affordable 802.11n gizmo I've seen yet: The Tr...
As we all know from watching decades of sci-fi movies, once computers become sentient, it's all over for humanity. Step one of that process (I'm guessing) is location-awareness, meaning the computer knows where it is. So think long and hard before installing the newly updated Google Mobile app on...
