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If you're thinking about making the switch to being a self-employed freelancer -- or if you're new to the business and need some pointers -- then you might appreciate some expert advice. I'd love to offer you my own book on freelancing, but alas, I have not written one. But Miles Burke has. And yo...
Laptop overheating? The simple act of elevating it can cool its jets by improving airflow underneath. And right now, Meritline is offering a pair of laptop-elevating cooling balls for just 99 cents. Shipped! To get that price, you need to apply coupon code MLC400238090467N on the checkout page. (...
I was watching someone work in Excel recently. She needed to copy into every cell in a 200 cell-long column, and she did it in just about the most time-consuming manner humanly possible, with long trips to the ribbon for the copy and paste buttons. There's a much faster way: Watch this week's Bus...
Oh, that frisky Apple. According to The Register, an iPhone customer in Ireland tried to claim his new purchase as a business expense, but Apple wouldn't cough up a receipt for the European VAT tax, citing the iPhone as a consumer device and therefore ineligible for business deductions. That's ...
When it comes to information management, contacts, calendars, and to-do lists get all the attention. But for many users, memos are just as important, if not more so. ActionPad replaces the stock BlackBerry MemoPad app with one offering a lot more features, including content search, easy category ...
Is your treadmill collecting dust in a corner? That's too bad, as countless studies have shown that regular exercise increases productivity and lowers health-care costs. Maybe you just need the right incentive to get back on the old 'mill -- like your laptop! Wouldn't it be great if you could com...
The back of my home office has a stack of obsolete hard drives. Why? Because I always pull them out of my PCs before I sell, donate, or recycle them -- it prevents data theft. Eventually, though, you need to either get rid of your drives or build a backyard fort out of them for your kids. Thankfully...
You probably use Google Maps all the time -- to find the best route to a business meeting, locate your hotel when you travel, and see if you can identify the car in your personal parking spot. What you might not realize is that you can easily customize Google Maps with lots of data that can help you...
Big news for Windows Mobile smartphone owners! Now you can get free Wi-Fi access at any of AT&T's nationwide hotspots. You have to be an AT&T customer, natch, just like the iPhone and BlackBerry users who are already enjoying Wi-Fi goodness at Barnes & Noble, McDonald's, Starbucks...
You know what they say: The difference between landing a job and not even getting the interview is inserting "Career break in 1999 to renovate my horse" into your resume. Everyone knows how important it is to ensure your resume is error-free (Rick even wrote about the dangers of resume typos rece...
Sharing a computer is the pits. If you're stuck in a "shared resource workspace" or split alternating shifts with someone on the same PC, I feel for you -- I really do. One of about a million annoyances with that sort of arrangement is that everyone on the same PC must use the same screen resolution...
Install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive!
Last week you learned a tricky, kinda dangerous way to add a virtual keyboard to your Palm Pre. Good news for non-tech-savvy, non-risk-taking sorts: Now there's an easy way to add a virtual keyboard to your Pre. And I mean easy. All you have to do is install an app, apply a patch, and presto: ins...
It's easy to configure Google Voice to record and transcribe messages for you, so you can treat your cell phone like a free digital memo recorder. I'll show you how.
Excel makes me angry. Not only do all Excel spreadsheets open in the same window (unlike Word, which opens a new window for every document for easy side-by-side viewing), but the new interface in Excel 2007 does away with the Window menu, making it frustratingly difficult to switch among open spread...
