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If you spent as much time as we did worrying about Swine Flu (at least it took our minds off the financiapocalypse), then we can forgive you for overlooking some of last week's hack-tacular posts. Here's a recap of what you missed: Extract Spreadsheet Data from PDFs with PDF to Excel Get Expos...
Do you ever find yourself in need of a photo editing program at Starbucks, but all you have is that lousy netbook Rick talked you into buying and a USB key full of tiny utilities? Sounds like you might want to add Fotografix to your USB key 'o apps -- it's a photo editor that takes up less than 800K...
Hey, iPhone and iPod Touch owners! In case you haven't been paying attention, Business Hacks is offering you a chance to win two sweet apps: Edit Office Docs on Your iPhone with Quickoffice (and Win a Copy) Win a Copy of Simplify Media -- and Reclaim Valuable iPhone Storage Space I've ext...
Remember Gmail Redesigned, the Firefox extension that turns Gmail from ugly HTML-ish duckling to beautiful Web 2.0-style swan? If you didn't try it then, you might be even more tempted now: Gmail Redesigned 3.0 offers both layout and performance improvements while maintaining that gorgeous Gmail fro...
Still looking for a quick and easy way to record screencasts? Regular Business Hacks readers know that we're big fans of ScreenToaster, having used it for countless exclusive how-to videos. But Screencast-o-Matic, one of the first browser-based screencasting tools, just leapfrogged it by adding supp...
You're a modern road warrior. You've got your hover car, your cyborg bodyguard, and access to all of the files on your PC from your BlackBerry. Wait a minute, you don't have any of those things! Well, let me get you started. SugarSync is a remote access service that gives you access to select files ...
No doubt you've pasted some cells of a spreadsheet into a Word doc or an e-mail message and felt empty inside, like the dark void that permeates us all was slowly eating away at you through the existential bleakness which goes by the name of your weekly status report. Perhaps I've overstated the ...
If I ignore my inbox for just a couple of hours, it runs wild with dozens of messages, most of which are really just replies to a handful of original threads. If I'm lucky, I can sometimes read the last e-mail in the thread, which includes all the relevant replies, and ignore the earlier messages....
If you're the sort of person who thrives on deadlines, you should take a look at Forcedo, an online task manager that includes a timer to help keep you on schedule. Forcedo is free, but you do need to create an account to use the site. Adding a task is easy -- just type a name and estimate ho...
Ever wish Outlook would load a little faster? Or that Word and Excel supported the increasingly popular OpenDocument format? Those are just a few of the perks found in Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which is now available for download from Microsoft. (You can also get it by way of Windows Update on you...
Further proof that, in a pinch, your smartphone can fill your laptop's shoes, Zoho Mobile is now available for all major smartphone platforms. That means you can review documents, check your calendar, view databases, and more on Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Symbian, and Windows Mobile handsets. I...
It's the little things in life that you miss the most. Like how when I started carrying my iPhone instead of a laptop, I could no longer edit the Word and Excel docs I was carrying around. I don't have to miss that anymore, because Quickoffice brings document editing to the iPhone. And though it s...
At any given moment, I've got about a dozen windows open -- Outlook, a few browser windows, Word, Excel, OneNote, and some folders. Windows 7 promises to make finding an open window less aggravating, but until then, you can use Switcher, a utility that replicates the Mac's Expose in Windows. ...
Remember PDF to Word, the free Web service that converts PDFs into editable Word documents? Now there's a number-minded equivalent: PDF to Excel turns PDFs into Excel-compatible spreadsheets. (That probably wasn't hard to guess, huh?) All you do is upload a PDF that contains table and/or workshee...
I have a buddy -- let's call him Dave -- who's dying to buy an iPhone, but refuses to until there's a 64GB model. That's because he has a mammoth music library and insists on having it at his fingertips at all times. Well, Dave, this one's for you. Simplify Media [iTunes link] streams your entire...
