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It's no secret that laptops hoover up battery life like a fat kid at a marshmallow convention. Windows Vista doesn't help matters; those fancy Aero Glass effects are a significant new demand on your laptop's power. That's why I have started using Aerofoil to automatically manage my laptop's power pl...
Business owners of every stripe are looking for ways to cut costs. Here's a gem: FreeConference schedules and host free conference calls for up to 150 people. If you routinely pay a monthly bill for a conference-call service, this should come as good news indeed. But surely there's a catch for al...
Imagine if Microsoft created a service that automatically synchronized with your Windows Mobile Phone, storing all of your phone's contents on the Web. Well, dream on no longer, because My Phone is now in open beta, and you can use it to keep your phone backed up to the Web. My Phone requires...
You know how your gadgets always break right after the warranty expires? Well, here's another truism: You'll never lose the user guide to your cell phone, printer, camera, or Wi-Fi router until you actually need it, and then it'll be nowhere in sight. That's why you should bookmark The Manuals, a se...
I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of reminder service like Remember the Milk -- it simply takes too many clicks. When I want to leave myself a to-do, I want it to be as fast, simple, and streamlined as humanly possible. Well, I've found just the thing: Task.fm parses your plain English re...
Want to become a successful executive? Then you need to think like one. ExecTweets aggregates the Twitter feeds of top business executives, giving you a unique window into the minds of some of capitalism's finest. So, who's tweeting? The site's roster of execs numbers close to 100 and include...
The Palm Pre, arguably the most buzzed-about smartphone since the iPhone, will land at Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and Wal-Mart on June 9. The price of admission: $199.99, after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a two-year contract. Sprint will offer the Pre with its Everything Data plans:...
Ah, it seems like just yesterday that Office 2007 was released, and many of us learned how to use the new ribbon interface. Apparently, Office 2010 is well underway, and Microsoft is now accepting applications for the Office 2010 Technical Preview Program. You should be aware that Microsoft i...
It seems that everything these days claims to be "not your father's" something-or-other. Cadillacs, Star Trek, and now Raveal. Raveal is a Monster-like job site that lets you sell yourself with a profile, resume, and 100MB portfolio of your actual work. Much of Raveal will be pretty familiar ...
Though some folks make their calendars double as a task list (or vice versa), it's really easier and more practical to keep tasks and appointments separate. That's why I'm so excited by this news: Google Calendar now includes a task manager. Just click the new Tasks link under the Google Calendar...
Anyone seen last week? Seriously, it went by so fast, we think we've got whiplash. If you experienced the same seven-day blur, you might have missed some seriously good business hackery. No problem: Slow down, take a breath, and check out last week's best posts: Turn Your Netbook Into a Kindle ...
You know you do it. That's right, you steal a furtive peek at your Facebook page whenever you have a chance. Those smarmy iPhone drones have their own Facebook app and BlackBerry addicts have long had an app for accessing their Facebook profile, too. But now Windows Mobile folks can get on Facebook...
I-fi, you-fi, we all fi! Sorry, but putting "WeFi" and "Wi-Fi" in the same headline made me a little crazy. And so does this: The WeFi Wi-Fi finder app is now available for the Android operating system. Translation: Google-phone users (both of them) can find hotspots right on their handsets. WeFi...
I spent a few years in the Air Force before becoming a highly paid blogger. And back at the NROC, I used to need to file WCA reports whenever there was a WAM event (or, obviously, if the WAMR triggered a TDD warning). Indeed, it was tense, but when a CCA would go redline and the duty sergeant would...
The busy bees at Drop.io just took the wraps off Present.io, a free service for running private, real-time presentations on the Web. What's Drop.io? Just one of our all-time favorite file-sharing services. Present.io mixes this no-setup, no-software file sharing with screen sharing, effectively l...
