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Arguably one of Word's most valuable features, mail merge automatically combines an address list with a document (business letter, mailing labels, etc.). Of course, as anyone who's tried it knows, using mail merge can be tricky. The above video walks you through the process, step by step. 'Nuff said...
Air Sharing turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a portable hard drive, letting you drag and drop files to your device and view documents on the go. Even cooler, it works this magic wirelessly. After installing the app, just follow the provided step-by-step instructions to mount your device a...
As Rick points out, you can use Google Chrome's incognito mode (ctrl-shift-N) to protect yourself from big brother. But there's also another great reason you should use it: multiple gmail accounts at the same time. I'm sick of having to sign out from my main account to check my spam account (that ...
A fragmented hard drive is a slow hard drive. If you want your system to run at peak performance, you should run a "defragger" from time to time. Defraggler is a free defragmentation utility that promises faster performance than Windows' own tool. After installing the program, click the Analyze b...
Few situations are more frustrating than a document that won't open. Repair My Word is a free utility that opens and fixes damaged or otherwise problematic Word files. Here are some of the common errors Repair My Word can overcome: "Word cannot open the document." "Word cannot open the doc...
Have you taken Google Chrome for a test drive yet? If not, it's well worth your time, if only to see how Google's new browser manages to out-innovate even Firefox. Meanwhile, Google Operating System put together a list of nine Google Chrome tips to help you really maximize the experience. A sam...
Hot on the heels of Zoho Share comes Zoho Docs, which aggregates your Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, and Zoho Show documents into a single repository. If this sounds familiar, it's because Zoho Share does more or less the same thing -- and so does Google Docs. Previously, if you wanted to open, say, a ...
Google Chrome's coolest feature is its address bar, which not only pulls up your browsing history (just like Firefox 3's Awesome Bar), but also runs a dynamic Google Search (meaning results start appearing as you type). Once you start using it, it's tough to give it up. Firefox users don't h...
A few months ago I listed five freeware gems I use every day. Today I've got five more, and while I don't use all of them on a daily basis, I definitely can't live without them. CrossLoop For remote access to another PC, there's nothing easier than CrossLoop. Just run the small client app on y...
Sometime this month, you'll be able to buy a cool gizmo that wirelessly ports your desktop at 720p quality to any VGA-enabled monitor within 30 feet. It consists of a wireless usb dongle that streams to a VGA adapter that plugs into the remote device. For $230, the IOGEAR device is definitely not...
A while back I posted tips on turning your USB flash drive into a system-recovery tool. Of course, these ubiquitous little drives are good for a lot more than just saving your system's bacon, as evidenced by Download Squad's roundup of 24 killer apps for flash drives. This is actually a collectio...
When the iPhone first debuted last year, it wasn't exactly enterprise-friendly. It couldn't sync with Exchange servers, couldn't run third-party apps, and so on. Of course, all that changed with the introduction of the iPhone 3G, which brought Exchange support, the App Store, robust security, and ot...
Here's what the web browser market looks like right now: 70% Internet Explorer 20% Firefox 10% Opera and then the rest fighting over the scraps. (Here's what the Business Hacks demographic uses: 56% Firefox 34% Internet Explorer 5% Safari 4% Opera and 2% other.) One analyst has guessed that Google's...
Lost amidst all the Google Chrome hubbub, Google just unveiled a new addition to Google Apps: Google Video for Businesses. The service allows corporate users to share videos within their organizations (think: YouTube for enterprises). Hey, wait a sec, you can already share videos across YouTube ...
Gcal Redesigned is a CSS stylesheet that adds colors, shading, and other visual tweaks to Google Calendar. Sound familiar? Gcal Redesigned comes from the same folks who brought you Gmail Redesigned, the Gmail "skin" that gives everyone's favorite Web-mail app an extreme makeover. Like tha...
