Watch CBS News
If you're a fan of online bookmark manager Delicious (formerly known as del.icio.us), here's good news: You can now access your Delicious bookmarks on your cell phone. Just point your phone's browser to m.delicious.com and sign into your account. From there you can browse your bookmarks, tags, in...
I've long been a fan of Gliffy, a fantastic online diagram tool that's like Microsoft Visio in your browser, only free. Now it has a bit of competition in the form of LucidChart, a similar browser-based tool that lets you whip up flow charts in a flash. LucidChart works in just about any bro...
Stephen Chao is the Co-founder and CEO of WonderHowTo.com, where he is taking his experience as a TV Executive and passion for turning over rocks to find cool stuff to help us navigate the ocean of valuable 'How-To' content on the Internet. Stephen talks about what drives him in his latest ventu...
Ever wish you could turn an e-mail into, say, a Word document without all the cutting and pasting (which invariably leads to formatting hassles)? A new Google Labs feature lets you do exactly that: The aptly named "Create a document" adds an eponymous link to Gmail, giving you a one-click method for...
Remember SlideShare, the YouTube-like Web service for uploading and sharing presentations? We're big fans, but we don't love all the steps involved in using it: fire up your browser, head to the site, log in, and upload your PPT file, etc. Now PowerPoint 2007 users have a better option: the Slide...
Smile! You're about to learn five fantastic ways to get the most from your cameraphone. Yes, we're talking about that crummy, low-resolution point-and-shoot that's built into your cell. It's a lot more useful than you think, provided you point it at the right things: Where you parked Now where...
New studies released today suggest that small business owners tend to avoid paying for marketing.The Yellow Pages Association's "Small Business Marketing Poll" found that almost two-thirds of small business owners prefer to keep marketing in-house. When they do spend money on marketing, here is how...
If that headline sounds familiar, it's because you're thinking of Windows Live FolderShare. That beloved service is now Windows Live Sync, and its goal is the same: To let you synchronize files and folders across multiple PCs. What's different? For starters, Microsoft has bumped the library limit...
Tired of racking up huge phone bills for calls to, say, your software-development team in India? Don't want to pay exorbitant roaming charges while traveling outside the U.S.? Enter Truphone, a voice-over-IP service that lets you make cheap, or even free, calls anywhere in the world. All you need is...
The charity world and the business world are mixing more than ever, according to an article in The Chicago Tribune. Writes Ann Meyer: 7-month-old Bright Endeavors is one of a growing number of charities that are adding business arms to help sustain their enterprises. [Their] Dreambean candles,...
Much as we love our shiny new 25GB Windows Live SkyDrive accounts, we hate the interface for uploading files. In Firefox, there's no drag-and-drop option -- we have to manually browse for and select each and every file. Bleh. Enter Gladinet, a free utility that turns your SkyDrive into a virtual ...
Ryan Scott is the Founder and CEO of Causecast.org, a social media network that educates and entertains by using original content to inspire people to get involved with the issues they want to support. Ryan gives us some insight into the secrets of his successes and talks about the importance of giv...
Too busy watching episodes of Chuck (the all-time best guilty pleasure for geeks) to pore over every enlightening Business Hacks post? We forgive you -- even we get distracted by Yvonne Strahovski. Here's what you missed last week: Rescue a Stolen Laptop with Laptop Cop Get 25GB of Free Web St...
Oh, Sandy, we hardly knew ye. We're talking about I Want Sandy, of course, the popular reminder service that's shutting down a week from today. What made "her" special was the way you could send a natural-language reminder (such as "Meet DB for lunch at 12:30 on December 19"), and Sandy would do the...
John Payne is the Founder and CEO of CircleUp.com, an online communication tool that is streamlining the process of communicating with large groups of people. With a history of building or turning around early and middle stage venture funded software and technology companies, John can teach us a few...
