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I've been saying it for years to anyone that will listen: Folders are an archaic concept. Sure, most of us (and by us, I mean you), still organize files in an array of subfolders, but that artificial segregation often makes it harder to find stuff, not easier. In Windows Vista, desktop search and fi...
Ready to launch that new business? (I hear iPhone app development is a gold mine.) Step one: Stake out your slice of the Web. Here's your chance to do it on the cheap: GoDaddy is offering $1.99 dot-com domain registrations. (Be sure to use coupon code 199BUYCOM at checkout to get that price.) Adm...
Nothing major, here, but Google Docs just rolled out a handful of tweaks for Presentations, its Web-based PowerPoint clone. Here's the rundown for all you slide monkeys -- er, junkies: Multi-shape formatting allows you select multiple shapes and/or text boxes and format them all at once. To sele...
Everyone has their favorite online PDF converter. I recently reminded you about PDFVue, for example. But if you want to make PDFs and sign them electronically, you should check out Drawloop instead. Drawloop converts pretty much any kind of file you throw at it into a PDF. It also can combine...
I've signed a lot of homemade contracts in my day; part and parcel of being in the freelance business is copying and pasting bits of old contracts together and agreeing to work on little more than a handshake. I've found a better solution, though. FastDue is a free online service you can use to crea...
Interesting news for organizations running Microsoft SharePoint: The Zoho has landed. Specifically, Zoho Office is now available for SharePoint. Here's a video that shows and tells all about it: You can take Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint for a 30-day test spin free of charge. After...
If you've ever used one of those aircard-type wireless modems, you know how hard they rock. You also know the pain of having to sign yet another two-year contract and pay, on average, $60 per month. That's over and above whatever you're already paying for your cell phone. Thankfully, there's an a...
There are a lot of great reasons to get a netbook, either as a replacement for an aging laptop or as a secondary portable for trips when you want to travel light. Web Worker Daily just offered five tips for buying a netbook that you won't regret a month later, and I thought I'd pass them along. ...
If you're like me and Rick, you get a fair bit of work done at coffee and sandwich shops that offer free Wi-Fi. But what happens when you have to refill your coffee or dash into the rest room? Do you pack up your laptop, or just leave it out and trust that you're surrounded by honest people? If you...
Dave "Stranded in the 20th Century" Johnson can poo-poo Twitter all he wants, but employers are increasingly turning to the service as a means to find job applicants. And that means job hunters can use it to find positions the second they hit the Twitterverse. TweetMyJobs is a free Twitter-based ...
Welcome to National Tell-a-Friend-About-Business-Hacks Week! We've made it really easy to join in the celebration. Just click that E-MAIL icon up above if you want to e-mail a post to a friend or co-worker. Or, click SHARE to spread the word via Facebook, Twitter, Digg, or another social-networking ...
Looking for a job in the post-apocalyptic, Max Max-like corporate landscape that is 2009? It might help to know what kinds of jobs are in demand. The online job auction site Elance has an interesting tool for seeing how your skills line up with what businesses are looking for. According to El...
The Palm Pre has only been available for about 2 weeks, but Palm has already patched the OS with some minor updates. You can check out Palm's release notes for the webOS 1.0.3 release, but I've got the stuff you need to know, including a hugely important caveat for all you Microsoft Exchange users...
You already know you can turn a netbook into a Kindle and stock it with a netbook-friendly office suite, but how do netbooks fare with Web apps? Are they adept with services like Google Docs, DimDim, Meebo, and YouTube? Webware took a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 for a spin with those and other Web apps...
I took a few typing classes in high school, but I admit to being a pretty poor typist. I use about four fingers in total and I've developed my own crazy finger patterns which make me look virtually illiterate when I need to type in front of more classically trained touch typing co-workers. That's wh...
