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Remember the 3M MPro110 pocket projector? It's a business-ready projector that just so happens to fit in the palm of your hand. It sold for $359 when it debuted late last year, but proving that good cheap things come to those who wait, Buy.com has the 3M MPro110 projector for $199.99 shipped. ...
Do you know how to get the most out of your iPhone? Can you use it as a flash drive? Convert music to ringtones? Extend your battery life? Your iPhone has so much potential that odds are good you're only tapping a small part of what it can do. That's why I was jazzed to run into The Unofficial Guide...
Have you noticed that David Pogue, of the New York Times fame, is on a rampage? He's declared war on cell phone carriers and, in particular, on the lengthy voice mail messages that you must wait through before getting to the beep. I don't blame him; in 2009, does anyone really need instructions on h...
It's one thing to get your company on Twitter and start pushing out the tweets, but quite another to manage, monitor, and fully leverage your account(s). Fortunately, there's a growing number of Web-based tools that help you do exactly that. PC World just rounded up the five top Twitter apps for ...
It's been a quiet week in Lake Hackbegon, my hometown... Whoops, sorry, guess I was channeling Garrison Keillor. (Is it just me or does he look like Dwight Schrute 30 years later?) Anyway, it has been a bit quiet on the Business Hacks front. Where are you, commenters? Let's hear what you have to ...
If, in an effort to consolidate your e-mail, you use your regular POP e-mail address in messages that you send through Gmail, then you might be frustrated that the From field contains "on behalf of" in some e-mail clients (like Outlook). As in, "Dave Johnson, on behalf of Dave Johnson." So an...
Imagine a world in which you can save documents directly to the cloud from within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Imagine that it's a dedicated, shared space in which you can invite others edit, read, and collaborate on those documents, easily accessed from within their own copy of Microsoft Office. An...
So you've got $300 in the budget for a new portable PC. You're probably thinking a netbook is the most you can get, but hold on: Best Buy and Walmart are each selling full-blown laptops for under $300! Now what? Start by reading PC Magazine's hands-on look at the $299 Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955...
Windows 7 seems to have an endless number of ways to easily launch your most common programs. Not only can you pin apps to the Start menu, for example, but there's the ability to pin to the Task bar. Or you can just type in the Start menu to conjure up the app. Well, it turns out that you can assign...
Spend much time in coffee shops or airport lounges, and you might worry about your laptop walking away when you attention is elsewhere. Perhaps what you need is an ear piercing alarm that sounds when someone tries to unplug your laptop and carry it off. That's where LAlarm comes in. LAlarm is...
Good news, Google Docs users: Dumb Little Man (I didn't know Dave had his own blog!) has rounded up 10 useful Google Docs hacks. Here are two of the best, both of them dealing with document synchronization: Offisync is an excellent tool which can sync your Microsoft Office Documents w...
The seemingly innocent act of clicking a link -- even one that's at the top of a Google search page -- can lead to spyware infestations. Free browser plug-in Web of Trust promotes safe browsing by vetting the links you click. In other words, it warns you about unsafe links. Here's a lengthy (abou...
Be honest: Have you ever texted while driving? Ever snuck a peek at your e-mail while approaching a traffic light? Well, to be blunt, that's insane. And now you can prove it to yourself: Play the New York Times "Gauging Your Distraction" game. You play with your PC's keyboard -- while driving dow...
I was on the bus last week without my laptop, but I needed to make a few changes to a Word file and send it to a co-worker. Even with my trusty iPhone, that has been something of a challenge. But last week, Quickoffice released an important update that lets you edit e-mail attachments on your iPh...
I love a good DIY project, and here's a killer one for thrifty business users: a cardboard stand that turns your phone into a document scanner. Actually, the stand was built with the iPhone in mind, but I see no reason it wouldn't work with any camera-equipped phone (or, for that matter, camera-e...
