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If all of last week's inauguration madness kept you from giving Business Hacks your full attention, well, we can forgive that. Yes we can. Here's a roundup of some of last week's best posts: Find All Your Old Office 2003 Commands in the Office 2007 Ribbon How to Dual-Boot Windows XP and Window...
Welcome to Guy Vs. Guy! In this new feature, Rick and Dave square off on the business and technology issues of the day. Today's topic: Cell phones. Why can't these modern marvels manage information half as well as their decade-old PDA forebears? Dave: A few years ago, everyone who was anyone carr...
Does taking notes in meetings make you feel like a court stenographer? AyeNotes is an online note-taking app that simplifies your job with auto-completing words and phrases. AyeNotes is disarmingly simple; when you log in, you get little more than a blank page in which to start typing. Sure, it...
Before Who Moved My Cheese? and Getting Things Done, there was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey's seminal work on improving your personal and professional life. If you never got around to buying it (or bought it and never read it -- come on, fess up), here's your chance to scor...
Is there anything less refreshing than airplane sleep? Oscar Dios, an entrepreneur in Sweden, thinks people will give his new hostel, which is built out of an abandoned jetliner, a try for the novelty and savings, reports Reuters. Dios says it is the world's first jumbo jet hostel, an actual ...
Good news for BlackBerry-toting book lovers: E-book app Mobipocket is now available for the BlackBerry Bold and Storm. For those unfamiliar with it, Mobipocket.com is an online e-book store that carries thousands of fiction and non-fiction titles. Mobipocket Reader is the software (also available...
Malcolm Lotzof is the CEO of InXpo, a virtual event provider that is drastically expanding the reach of physical events with their 3D interactive customizable events. Malcolm points out the financial and ecological benefits of their green business solution.
Perhaps, someday soon, laptops will recognize when they've been stolen and deal with the perpetrator themselves, not unlike this video clip. Until such a time comes, though, we'll have to rely on geo-location tools to help the authorities zero in on your lost computer. Here is a pair of free ...
Collaborating on a single document presents a variety of logistical challenges. Who has the latest version? Whose changes get accepted? How do you reconcile conflicting comments from three different people? And holy crosswords, Batman, this Word file is so littered with markups, it's impossible to r...
If you're not the CEO yet, it's probably because you're so incredibly disorganized. Or, in Rick's case, ugly. A study I just made up shows that the most productive people in your office use checklists to stay in control of their work day. Checkvist is a free, online organizer that you can use ...
UPS has commissioned two surveys to gauge the outlook of its small business customers. The first was in September and October and the second was in December, so UPS is sharing how perspectives have changed since the recession really hit America's collective consciousness. General optimism has not...
Any fan of freeware is undoubtedly familiar with Ad-Aware, one of the veterans of the spyware-protection game. To help celebrate the program's 10th anniversary, developer Lavasoft has released Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition, which, according to the company, offers the following benefits: Uses ...
Last week we told you about the sad demise of Web-clipping service Google Notebook. If you haven't yet decided where to migrate your info, Zoho just made your decision a lot easier: You can now import your stuff into Zoho Notebook in three easy steps -- if you're a Firefox user. Install the new ...
Recently, I took a management course in which the instructor said the number one skill holding people back from advancement at work is poor communications. If your fear of speaking in public is holding you back, check out these 7 little tricks to speak in public without fear. As someone with litt...
How does Disney handle its accounting? Beats me â€" I suppose they have a few actual accountants on staff down the hall from the animators â€" but I'm more concerned about how to manage the cash in my small business. Recently, I checked out NolaPro, a free, web-based accounting and business manage...
