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A slow and down economy affects many areas of the business world, but one in particular are small businesses and entrepreneurs. Especially those who rely on venture capital groups for funding. These groups are critical to the early development and growth of many companies, in particular those in t...
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I make it a habit to cover only those products and services you can get right now, but I'm too excited about this announcement to wait: Remote-desktop service LogMeIn is coming soon for the iPhone and iPod touch. As you may recall, LogMeIn is my preferred tool for remotely connecting to my deskto...
If you've been too distracted by election mania to give Business Hacks your usual thorough poring-over, fear not: We've rounded up the tastiest posts of the last week for quick and easy digestion: Add Free Content-Filtering to Your Network with OpenDNS Add Your Calendar to Your Gmail Page J...
With the unfortunate demise of Docsyncer, there's no longer an easy way to synchronize your local documents with your Google Docs documents. Sure, you can use Google Gears to access your documents offline, but that's not quite the same thing as syncing. Enter Syncplicity, a Web-based backup and sync...
What's the best file compression tool out there? According to a recent Lifehacker poll, it's not even close: 7-Zip blew away a crowded field to take home a majority of the votes. Though 7-Zip only works on Windows and Linux computers, it's free, straightforward, and doesn't eat up too much s...
For months, AT&T has been on-again, off-again with its free Wi-Fi offering for iPhone users. As of now, however, it appears to be "on" for good -- and it's no longer just for the iPhone crowd: BlackBerry users can get in on the free hotspot goodness as well. Specifically, owners of an iPhone,...
If you've been thinking about getting one of those ultra-portable, cheap netbooks you've heard so much about (and we know many of you are considering it), there's a new one on the scene that may be just what you're looking for. The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 just got a great rating from Wired for its 10...
Remember Docstoc, the "YouTube for documents" service we wrote about last year? It's an online repository for professional documents, one that previously required you to futz with a Web interface to upload your own files. Well, uploading just got easier: Now you can e-mail any document to uploads@do...
If you run a small office, you no doubt want to keep your employees from visiting inappropriate Web sites. Normally this would require pricey filtering software, complex proxy servers, or the like, but you can use the free OpenDNS service to filter content and even protect employees from phishin...
Having recently missed a phone meeting (that I set up!) because of my confusion about time zones, I'm for any and every step to make collaborating across temporal boundaries easier. One site that's working on just this problem is called Permatime, which creates one url that tells the meeting t...
Yammer, the newish microblogging-for-companies service, is in the process of adding a few new features that may separate it from similar services like ididwork (which we talked about here) and Twitter, as well as from conventional email and IMing. Yammer only allows people with the same cor...
The folks at Google Labs are really cranking out the features these days. (Maybe they're trying to show that as Yahoo! wilts, Google's getting stronger?) At any rate, they've finally made it possible to add many of the cool widgets from iGoogle to your Gmail page as well. In the sidebar of your m...
Sure, Google Maps can tell you where an address is located, but can it tell you the address for any location? Let me rephrase that. Let's say you need to head over to a convention center for a meeting, but don't know the exact address of the structure to get directions. Wouldn't it be cool ...
Remember Dial2Do, the voice-powered messaging service that arrived just in time to fill Jott's new subscription-driven shoes? It just rolled out some new features, making it an even more compelling alternative. Among the highlights: Say "listen to e-mail" and Dial2Do will read messages from ...
