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Last Friday was Bike-to-Work Day. But why just one day? Why not make it a regular thing? Biking to work offers countless benefits: It's free, it doesn't produce CO2, it improves your health, it guarantees a parking spot near the door, and so on. Wired suggests five ways to make bike commuting ea...
Want to try Evernote, the seriously buzzed-about service that lets you capture and organize information using a variety of sources? For now it's a closed beta, but Business Hacks has scored 100 invites -- and we're in the mood to share. If you want one, ping us at bizhacks@gmail.com. Don't worry, ...
If your budget won't accommodate a pricey business projector but you need one for the occasional presentation, here's a solution: Rent a projector from Projector123. The service offers 2000- and 3000-lumen models (the latter suitable for ultra-bright environments, like rooms with lots of ambient ...
The best mobile Web-browsing experience, bar none, comes from the iPhone. Users of all other phones should check out Opera Mini 4.1, the latest version of the free, popular portable browser. Among the new features: It's up to 50 percent faster than version 4.0. It will automatically suggest U...
As I've mentioned several times on Business Hacks, one of the best ways to manage your online reputation is to create your own website; that way, when people google you, one of the first things they'll come across is something that makes you look good—and you can control. I (finally) started ...
Any time you can keep your hands on your keyboard instead of reaching for your mouse, you're saving time. Sure, it might be just a few seconds, but seconds add up to minutes, minutes to hours -- and pretty soon you've got yourself an extra week's vacation. Okay, maybe not, but keyboard shortcuts def...
FuelFrog is a nifty little app that allows you to keep track of your driving, your fuel economy, and your gas expenses. It's no more than a tricked-out excel page, really, except for one killer feature: it's integrated with Twitter. That means that whenever you hit the gas station, you simply tweet ...
If you routinely charge plane tickets to a debit card, stop. The New York Times explains why you should always use a credit card for your flight purchases: Under the federal Fair Credit Billing Act, a credit card company is required to return your money for a service not supplied, like an airplane ...
As Rick has mentioned before, one of the best ways to free up space on your hard drive is to get a birds-eye view of all the stuff you've got on there and then bulk delete the stuff you've got no use for (say, temporary internet files). I tried out Xinorbis for my PC, but was just turned on to D...
BeamMe.Info adds a "send to mobile" button to your Web site, delivering whatever kind of content you wish to users' cell phones via SMS. That's a potentially huge bit of added value for your site, especially if it generates unique information that would be useful on a phone. (The best example...
This week, Slate is running a series of articles about that omnipresent elephant in the cubicle: procrastination. While most of the articles aren't exactly How-Not-To Guides, I did learn a little bit from skimming through a few of them. Emily Yoffe's piece taught me that procrastination is a learn...
Visual Tooltip adds thumbnail previews to the Windows taskbar, allowing you to see what's beneath each button when you mouse over it. Windows Vista offers similar functionality, but Visual Tooltip offers a ton of customization options. You can choose the size and opacity of the thumbnails, show...
Lots of folks claim that the easiest way to lose weight is to eat small meals supplemented by little snacks throughout the day. If that plan doesn't lead to eating fewer calories in general, then I'm a bit skeptical of its weight-loss benefits, but it does have a major perk that the three-meal-a-day...
When you set up shop at the local Starbucks, Panera Bread, or wherever, nature will inevitably call -- forcing you to leave your notebook unattended while you answer. The Doberman Laptop Defender SE-2010 promises to stand guard, emitting a 100-decibel alarm if its motion sensor gets tripped. Just at...
Seems like just a month ago that Microsoft Office competitor OpenOffice.org trotted out version 2.4. Today the open-source office suite debuted its long-awaited 3.0 version (albeit in beta form), adding native support for Mac OS X, import filters for Office 2007, an updated interface, and cou...
