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Despite what Rick thinks, I don't hate the Earth and want to see it bleed. I just think that putting your PC to sleep is a smarter way to use your PC than turning it off completely. But whether you want to turn off your computer, put it in standby, or even hibernate, you can use Vista Shutdown Timer...
A Google profile is exactly what it sounds like: A personal profile that appears when someone does a Google search of your name. My advice: Create one now to make sure you're properly represented on the Web. What does that mean? Suppose a prospective (or current) employer decides to play Sherlock...
Your spreadsheets don't have to be dry, soul-killing pages of numbers. With Excel 2007's conditional formatting, you can add all sorts of eye-catching visuals to your data. Conditional formatting makes your spreadsheets more meaningful and easier to interpret, plus, we hear, it can make you more att...
I never really considered a pocket camcorder to be an essential business tool, but after reading David Coursey's Pure Digital's New Flip UltraHD, A Tool for Any Business, I'm starting to reconsider. Here's an excerpt: Use the built-in software to post the video to YouTube and you can shoot a short ...
Duplicate Cleaner is a free utility that scours your hard drive for duplicate files. Why? To save you some hard drive space, obviously. But I have a much better reason to use this program. Duplicate Cleaner is great for identifying duplicate media files -- like music and video. That's awesome, ...
Good news for the "I'm a Mac" crowd: CrossLoop is now available for Mac OS X. And what the heck is CrossLoop? Oh, just one of our all-time favorite remote-control/screen-sharing tools, that's all. How might you use such a tool? Here's an example: Not long ago I wanted to give Dave a guided to...
You might know that we have something of crush on Screentoaster, what with all of our regular BizHacks how-to videos and all. We use Screentoaster because it's a Web-based screen recorder that stores your video in the cloud with very high image quality -- just the thing for discriminating readers li...
Now that you've downloaded that sweet, sweet Windows 7 Release Candidate, you may find yourself wondering how best to install it. Specifically, if you're already running the beta, you'd probably prefer an upgrade approach, one that keeps all your settings, apps, and data. Alas, the Windows 7 RC a...
While ogling the newest laser printers on the Staples Web site, I ran across this little gem: For the next month or so, you can make 20 copies of your resume and get 40 business cards for free. Staples is billing it as a "Career Stimulus Program," and while I doubt it's going to singlehandedl...
We're big fans of the forthcoming Palm Pre around here, and it looks like the newest smartphone/iPhone competitor is going to drop on us around the middle of June, if baseless Internet rumors are to be believed. The latest big Pre news? You might be able to snag a free Pre for yourself, along wit...
It's a fine time to be a BlackBerry user, as three major services are making their way to the platform: contact-capture tool Gwabbit, remote-access tool LogMeIn, and Xobni. Wait, Xobni? The Outlook add-on we've raved about for over a year? According to Webware, a BlackBerry version of Xobni is in...
No, that's not Windows 7 Radio Controlled or Windows 7 Royal Crown, but rather Windows 7 Release Candidate -- the ostensibly final version of the OS before it gets released to manufacturing (RTM, if you want to be as abbreviation-savvy as possible). Microsoft's servers are sure to be swamped for ...
If you're a fugitive from the law, falsely accused of a crime that you know was committed by a one-armed man, you can play a game of cat and mouse with the authorities while you search small towns across America for the real culprit. Or you could configure Ingboo to notify you about news and Web sit...
Are you a Beatles or a Stones person? Star Trek or Star Wars? Web mail or desktop client? If you're the sort of person that likes your mail on the desktop, the way Nature intended, then you might want to check out Zimbra Desktop, a free, Open Source, unified mail client for Windows, Mac, and Linux. ...
Whether it's a Word file that goes missing, a corrupted memory card, or a hard drive that's suddenly starting to generate read errors, data loss can be a nightmare. (That's why we strongly advocate making regular backups.) Fortunately, like the Oceanic 6, lost data doesn't have to stay lost forev...
