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How, you may ask yourself. How do we serve up so many great hacks week after week? Like this batch right here, which is just as good the second time around: Snapter Turns Your Digital Camera Into a Scanner 10 Ways to Fix Your Biggest Security Risks Take Control of Your Inbox with Categories ...
Agent 004, issuing a field report to MI-6: Attempting to track down the Baron and his stolen diamonds, I've discovered his lair. It's an innocent-looking warehouse in Denver where he apparently intends to build his weather control machine and hold the free world hostage. I sit at his computer and by...
"Look at this over my shoulder" might be good enough if you want to share a document with someone in the cube across the hall, but when you need to review a document with someone in a another zip code, you need something like ShowDocument, a free Web meeting service. Check out the video after ...
Pop quiz, hotshot: A client just e-mailed you a signed contract, and you need to print a hardcopy pronto. But the document's trapped inside your BlackBerry. What do you do? What do you do? If you have Cortado Basic Print, you just find the nearest Bluetooth-enabled printer. This BlackBerry ap...
I love Scott Adam's cynical, vaguely trippy perspective on the cubicle universe. But I've gone months at a time forgetting to read the strip, because I just don't think to visit the official Dilbert Web site. I've found a better solution. If you're running Windows Vista, help is as close as ...
Zoho Writer, the Web-based word processor that gives Google Docs a run for the money, just took the lead with its vastly improved 2.0 interface. See some of the changes in the above slideshow, then read on to learn all the gory details. Although Zoho Writer's core design is the same (docu...
Remember Dropcard, the free service that lets you exchange contact information using just your cell phone? It's a favorite here at Business Hacks, and now it's even better thanks to some new features that just rolled out. As you may recall, Dropcard works like this: To send someone your conta...
Back in the 1950s, when people put on suits and carried a briefcase to the office each day, they'd come home promptly at 5pm, where their stay-at-home wife was waiting with a newspaper and a hot meal. I gleaned all of this mainly from watching episodes of Bewitched. These days, we sometimes spend...
Imagine publishing your home address on the company Web site. Or running an online ad that includes a photo of your kids -- or even worse, someone for whom you don't have a signed model release. None of those things sound like good ideas, but you risk them every time you upload a photo to the Web, t...
Why can't Outlook pull contact information from an e-mail and create a new contact from it? I'll ask Steve Ballmer the next time I see him. In the meantime, there's Gwabbit, an Outlook plug-in that pulls contact information from e-mail and creates new contacts from it. Gwabbit scans e-mails as th...
Amazon just took the wraps off Kindle for iPhone, a free app [iTunes link] that lets you read all the books, magazines, and newspapers available from the Kindle Store. (It's compatible with the iPod Touch as well, natch.) First, the bad news: You can't purchase books on the run like you can w...
Give me four minutes, and I'll give you a cleaner, better organized inbox. Watch the Business Hacks exclusive video after the jump (for best results, switch to full-screen mode) for an overview of how categories and flags can help you convert Outlook 2007 from a no man's land of neglected messages ...
So you've been running a copy of Windows 7 beta for a month or so now and you're pondering whether it's worth the time and expense to actually upgrade when the final version ships. Would it help to know how Microsoft has changed Windows 7 since the beta? I thought it might. That's why I've tracked d...
To paraphrase the old saying, everybody hates computer security, but nobody does anything about it. Well, if you're the one in charge of doing something about it for your organization, you'll appreciate this: PC World offers 10 fixes for today's worst security nightmares. These aren't just tired ...
Welcome to Guy Vs. Guy! In this recurring feature, Rick and Dave square off on the business and technology issues of the day. Today's topic: Social Networking. Can business users mine services like Facebook and LinkedIn for marketing gold? Or are the risks of online embarrassment too great? Dave:...
