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Round these parts, we're not big fans of Adobe Reader -- a limbering, bloated whale of a program that also annoys you with frequent, needless updates. Why not ditch Adobe and use a free, lightweight alternative like Perfect PDF instead? Perfect PDF has a modern look, complete with an Office 2...
Annoyed by those little lightning bolts that pop up in Word to offer correction options? You're not alone; they're almost as annoying as Clippy. What you might not realize is that they're surprisingly easy to send to the cornfield, where they'll never bother you again. Watch the Business Hacks ex...
If you're as geeked as we are about the iPhone OS 3.0 features announced last month, you'll be even more geeked when you learn you can get a baker's dozen of 'em right now, today. PC World serves up 13 OS 3.0-style goodies, including copy-and-paste, Spotlight search, and tethering, that current i...
I went to my doctor last year complaining about some shoulder and wrist pain. His remedy? He printed a few Web sites that explained how to do some exercises and handed me a pile of grainy, indistinct sketches that I simply could not decipher. Thankfully, I recently found a video -- after the jump...
Still can't decide if your next notebook should be a netbook? PC Magazine makes the case that it should, using your wallet as a primary argument: Why is your company still paying $2,000 for a business laptop when it can have five or six netbooks for about the same price? Think it's as simple...
You might have seen the recent Guy Vs. Guy in which Rick insanely contended you should turn off your computer every night. If you bought into the madness, you can get to work faster using a clever little utility called Startup Delayer. Here's the problem: You probably have a bunch of programs...
Good news, iPhone and Android users: Google just rolled out some improvements to Gmail for mobiles. Specifically, if you access Gmail via your phone's Web browser, you'll find that it's now faster. And when you select a message, a new "floaty bar" appears up top with options for archiving, deleting,...
If your office computer is managed by an IT staff, odds are that your documents and files aren't located on your C: drive. Instead, "My Documents" is redirected to another location -- probably a network drive -- to improve your PC's performance and make it easier to do routine backups. If you manage...
Never find yourself stranded away from the office without a word processor, spreadsheet, or audio player again -- not with PortableApps, a collection of self-contained programs you can run from your flash drive on any computer you can borrow some time on. Last year, Rick told you about Portab...
Did all those April Fools pranks sideline you from your regular Business Hacks perusal last week? Well, you missed one of the most bitter, knock-down Guy Vs. Guy debates yet. (And it continues to rage on in the Comments!) Here's a recap of all the best posts from the week gone by: Access Your Go...
At first I thought this was a joke, but it's the real deal: The Conficker Eye Chart site instantly diagnoses Conficker infections. By now you've heard of Conficker, right? The Web worm was supposed to wreak untold havoc on April 1, and although those fears were never realized, many security exper...
Search Autocomplete is a new Gmail Labs feature that brings Google's renowned suggestive-search capabilities to your Gmail inbox. For example, want to find all messages from a particular client? Just type the first few letters of his or her e-mail address in the Search field. Immediately you'll s...
Even if you aren't a fan of Ron Moore's reimagining of the single season space opera from 1978 (but how could you not be?), you probably know it signed off after four epic seasons last week, at last delivering 50,000 human and Cylon survivors to a new world. What you might not realize is that t...
If you've ever tried a service like Campfire for online conferencing and collaboration, you know how incredibly handy it can be. File-sharing service Drop.io recently rolled out its own Web-based group-chat tool: Conference.io. Right off the bat, Conference.io has two big points in its favor: It'...
Chatting with my parents the other day, they were surprised to learn that almost all of my daily communication is done through e-mail. "Even if someone is right down the hall?" they asked. Yep. Not only is e-mail efficient and asynchronous, but it represents an audit trail to prove who spoke to whom...
