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If you can tear yourself away from Spore Origins for a minute, it's time to put your iPhone to seriously productive use. Here are five more App Store gems you'll definitely want to check out. (As with my first batch of iPhone productivity apps, the following links all require iTunes.) Air Mouse...
So it was designed for shared apartments and dormrooms, but this modular refrigerator would solve many a problem in the office kitchen. If it ever gets built--right now it's simply entered in an Electrolux design competition--no longer would co-workers 'mistakenly' eat your sandwich, and no longer...
OtherInbox is a much-buzzed-about new service designed to help you manage e-mail overload. Basically, it gives you a Web-based "other inbox" to use for newsletters, receipts, LinkedIn updates, and all the other stuff that's not really junk mail, but that you don't want clogging up your primary inb...
Passwords are now a part of everyday life, but many users don't realize the importance of using a secure password, one that can't easily be overcome by a brute-force attack. Web-based password management service PassPack offers these tips for creating strong passwords: Use as many characters as ...
It's been a good couple weeks for BlackBerry users. First came Google's new Mobile App, and now there's MapQuest 4 Mobile, a new app that brings the eponymous mapping service to BlackBerry devices. MapQuest 4 Mobile can give you an interactive map of your current location (leveraging built-in GP...
Before you spring for a pricey, bulky, fragile projector, check out what's coming next month: the 3M MPro110, a projector that's small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. The lucky folks at Popular Science got a sneak peek at the MPro110; here's a sampling of what they had to say about it: T...
Google Docs just added several new features that may tempt even more Microsoft Word users to switch. First up: a dictionary, a thesaurus, and an encyclopedia. Just select any word, then click Tools > Look up word to get a definition, a list of synonyms, or a relevant encyclopedia entry. G...
Proof positive that you can't judge a product by its awful, awful name, WMWiFiRouter turns nearly any Windows Mobile phone into Wi-Fi hotspot, one you can tap into with your notebook, iPod touch, or any other Wi-Fi-enabled device. If WMWiFiRouter sounds familiar, that's because I wrote about it b...
I've made no secret of my love for Copernic Desktop Search: It was the first item in my list of five freeware gems I use every day. (David's a fan, too: He prefers it to Google Desktop.) Version 3.0 of the "search engine for your PC" adds a handful of tweaks and fixes -- not all of them ideal, a...
Remember Dropbox, the service that lets you back up files, share them with others, and sync them with other PCs? It's no longer an invitation-only beta: Now anyone can sign up. After installing the Dropbox client (available for Windows, Mac, and Linux), just drag and drop files and folders to...
Now that I finally own a real Timbuk2 messenger bag (and not the knock-off I bought in a Wal-Mart a few years back), I can say that it is one of the most durable, useful, and, well, cool, things that I own. But I'm kicking myself for buying it, now that I see I could have gotten it for $30 less ...
Longtime Business Hacks favorite YouSendIt lets you send files that are too large to e-mail. Thanks to new plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office (2003 and 2007), you can now tap the service directly from within those applications -- no trip to the Web required. These join an existing...
Calling all BlackBerry users: The new Google Mobile App offers faster searches and quick access to Gmail, Maps, News and other Google services. Here's a complete rundown of the app's acumen: Fast Google search Enter queries without waiting for a browser to load Search history Easily acce...
Given the deluge of information you can precipitate simply by surfing the web these days, there is a new wave in web design to get the relevant information out front as quickly and usefully as possible. It doesn't get much more lightning fast than UmbrellaToday?, which has stormed the weather webs...
Picasa just added a new face-tagging tool that's similar to Facebook's, but holy crap is it powerful. It only works on my web albums right now, but I was able to tag over 300 people in 200 photos in less than ten minutes. (Not yet using Picasa for your web albums? Here's why you should.) That's be...
