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I'm keen on saving the earth long as it takes almost no effort on my part. But tell me I can extend the life of my expensive monitor -- and save a bit on my electric bill to boot, and you've definitely got my attention. MonitorES is a simple, free utility that shuts off your monitor whenever you l...
We don't normally do book reviews here at Business Hacks, but I have to give a shout-out to I Hate People. This helpful, humorous tome helps you "hack" your workplace by learning to deal with all kinds of difficult coworkers: underminers, micromanagers, backstabbers, and garden-variety jerks. Her...
A few months back, Dave showed you how to use Excel pivot tables to better visualize your spreadsheet data. (If you missed the post, be sure to check it out -- it has video!) Of course, if you've embraced pivot tables, you've probably discovered their Achilles' heel: They can't be edited. Enter P...
If you're one of the folks currently running a pre-release version of Windows 7, you already know how cool it is to pin apps and folders to the taskbar. But I've found that while I'd love to pin a handful of less commonly used apps -- like my assortment of photo editing programs, for example, I don'...
I need to scan and convert text from printed documents about, oh, about once per leap year. So it makes no sense for me to own a scanner or waste hard disk space with OCR software that I virtually never use. Especially when I can use Free OCR to convert scanned or photographed text into an editable ...
In the tradition of Jott and Dial2Do, reQall is a phone-based, voice-driven reminder service that turns your spoken words into e-mails, calendar entries, text messages, and the like. It's ridiculously handy, and it's free -- though you might just want to splurge on the Pro version. Want to know m...
I don't know about you, but we spent the better part of last week listening to Thriller, seeing if we could still moonwalk (Dave's surprisingly good at it), and feeling really old. (Michael Jackson was 50? Hell, that means we're...sigh.) Luckily, we managed to post through our grief. Here's a rec...
Software that can help you schedule employees -- especially if you manage shift workers who need to man multiple locations, stations, or offices -- is worth far more than its weight in gold (because software does not weigh anything). If you are on the lookout for a better way to schedule people, t...
There are a million ways to take a screenshot, including the Snipping Tool that comes with Windows Vista, free utilities like Screen Capturer, and high-powered commercial programs like Snag-It. But if you want to capture an entire Web page from top to bottom, including the bits that extend "below th...
Back when I worked for Faceless Giant Corporation, LLC, I was part of a team that desperately needed a project-management tool. We were all over the place -- Excel, Lotus Notes, countless PDFs and Word documents -- to the point where the project simply couldn't be managed efficiently. Oh, how I w...
If you believe Rick, Twitter is an awesome and powerful marketing tool. I think it's a pointless waste of time. If you are more Rick than Dave, then you might be interested in this Twitter-to-English dictionary. I was actually kind of jazzed to run across this, because while some of the terms are...
If you've had your eye on the Palm Pre, you probably know that the awkwardly named handset has access to the whole library of classic Palm OS apps thanks to Classic, a Palm OS emulator from Motion Apps. One concern a lot of people have had, though, is whether their particular favorite apps would wor...
If you ship a lot of packages, you probably use the same courier for expediency's sake. But if you ship infrequently, it makes sense to shop around for the best rates. ShipGooder makes it a snap to compare shipping costs between various couriers. All you do is plug in the origin and destination Z...
Anyone who gives presentations on a regular basis recognizes the value of a good "air mouse," which lets you control your slideshows wirelessly as you move around the room. Instead of buying and bringing extra gear, why not go the app route? Mobile Air Mouse turns your iPhone into an air mouse, p...
I have a lot of balls in the air all the time -- a ton of projects I'm working on myself, but I also assign stuff to other writers and rely on an ad hoc collection of handwritten notes, stuff in OneNote, and e-mail to keep track of it all. There has to be a better way -- and there is. I recently ...
