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Looking to work remotely? In search of online employment? There appear to be some excellent opportunities to be had, even in this economy. Recently, Web Worker Daily described four resources for finding work online. Here is what they recommend: oDesk is an online staffing marketplace for jobs...
Over at Gizmodo there's arguably the best roundup of Palm Pre reviews I've seen yet. Those clever gadget guys plucked the best bits from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Engadget, and themselves to create a Palm Pre Review Matrix. Here's a sampling: I know it's a bit to...
Looking for an easy way to enter common symbols like copyright and trademark? They're easy enough to find in Word's Symbol dialog box, but if you use them frequently enough, it's handy to know the keyboard shortcuts. First, a refresher: If you are looking for them in Word 2007, click the Inse...
Is your Windows key a little square slacker? Put your keyboard's most underrated key to work with this handy collection of Windows key shortcuts. Windows Toggles the Start Menu Windows+B Selects the first icon in the System Tray Windows+D Â...
Power inverters are awesome for folks who spend a lot of time in the car, but, frankly, they're kinda boring. Not so the Coffee Cup Power Inverter, which combines cup-holder sensibilities with Starbucks styling. (Just don't try to drink from it.) I think the photo speaks for itself. The CCPI plug...
In the future, all business expenditures will automagically find their way into your expense reports (probably through some mashup of RFID, Bluetooth, and Excel 2063). In the meantime there's Receipt Reader, which converts smartphone snapshots of your receipts into expense reports. Here's how it wor...
My desktop is like a messy apartment in the thick of summer: Too many open windows and I can never find what I'm looking for. And there are certain windows, like OneNote or Excel, that I always need to keep on top no matter what else is going on. That's why I've started using DeskPins to keep my i...
I hate PowerPoint presentations. Let me clarify; I don't hate PowerPoint. I actually like the program quite a bit. But most of the PowerPoint presentations I am forced to sit through seem to combine all the world's worst presentation habits into one unbearable hour of pain, sadness, and cheesy fonts...
A couple years back I lost a flash drive at, all of places, a rest stop. A few days later, a seriously good Samaritan contacted me to say she'd found my drive and would gladly return it (and cover the cost of postage, no less). Now for the embarrassing part: She obtained my e-mail address by digg...
No matter whether you want to help save the earth, get your laptop to run longer, or reduce the cost of your energy bill, ghacks has a handful of suggestions for making each kilowatt go a little further in your office. Buy energy efficient products. This one should be common sense, but kee...
From what I hear, the rate that pink slips are being passed out is falling, but it's still pretty nasty out there. If you've been caught in the Economic End Times, I've got six tips for dealing with your imminent layoff and the hunt for the next job. Don't be shy -- tell your social networ...
Ending months -- or is it years? -- of speculation, Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows 7 will be generally available on October 22. That means it will likely "release to manufacturing" (or RTM, in software-speak) in late July or early August so that computer makers have time to start in...
Oh, sweet merciful Jeebus, I want this thing. Now. The NeatDesk is a sheetfed scanner that has individual slots for documents, receipts, and business cards, and software to automatically OCR and e-file them all. See if watching this promo video doesn't make your wallet leap straight out of your pock...
Building PowerPoint-style presentations in your browser is nothing new, but that hasn't stopped Adobe from throwing its hat into the ring: Acrobat Presentations lets you create and collaborate on slideshows. And unlike most Adobe products, this one's free (for now, anyway). Though currently i...
Surely by now you've heard about Wolfram Alpha, a revolutionary search engine that doesn't just aggregate Web sites which appear to keyword match your input, but instead uses expert systems to actually answer the question you ask. The real question -- and one Wolfram Alpha couldn't answer (I tried a...
