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Freelancers, independent contractors, and small businesses all face the same challenge when it comes to invoices: What's the fastest, cheapest, and easiest way to manage them? Lifehack.org rounds up various Web-based invoicing options, everything from PayPal to FreshBooks to Zoho Invoice. We've l...
BlackBerry users often forget (or don't even know) that they can add software to their devices. Web Worker Daily rounds up 7 productivity-boosting apps for the BlackBerry, including: JiveTalk If you use IM for chatting with colleagues and clients, JiveTalk will make your life a lot easier. It ...
Before I buy anything electronic online, I usually head over to our big brother CNET to see how the experts rate it. I used the scores over there (combined with the user reviews at Amazon) to decide on both my camera and my phone. Now, though, there's a site that combines CNET's reviews with revie...
MakeUseOf lists six Firefox extensions that can save you time, usually by automating or simplifying common tasks. For example: Hyperwords - All in the Right Click! This is undoubtedly one of the best Firefox extensions available and my favourite too. It adds a huge number of options to the mouse...
How to put this kindly... Windows' built-in uninstaller sucks. It's slow. It's buried in the Control Panel. It doesn't always remove all traces of the program. Oh, and let's not forget that sometimes it flat out refuses to remove entries at all. That's why I'm a huge fan of Revo Uninstaller,...
"Backscattering" seems to be a term that PC World just made up for the purposes of this article. But the phenomenon it's describing is very real, and—anecdotally at least—seems to be on the rise. In an effort to get by email filters, spammers often scrape email addresses like yours of...
Remember Drop.io, the file-sharing service we've gushed about before? (The first gush was for offering audio recording by cell phone; the second, for enabling "drops" via e-mail.) Now you can use it to send and receive faxes. A "drop" is your online file repository. For any Word document or PDF ...
If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word (or any other word processor), it's high time you learned how to select text using only your keyboard. Why? Because it saves you having to reach for your mouse and lets you use other keyboard shortcuts more effectively. Here's how: Place your cursor a...
A happy worker works twelve times harder than an unhappy one, according to Pixar's Brad Bird. Tucked deep into a McKinsey Quarterly interview with Bird (and plucked out by blogger Jason Kottke), is this quote from the guy behind The Incredibles and Ratatouille. In my experience, the thing that ha...
Remember Xobni, the Outlook add-on that does marvelous things to your inbox? It's no longer a private, invitation-only beta: Now it's a public beta! Xobni (inbox spelled backwards) is a serious power tool for Outlook users. It can automatically extract names and phone numbers from e-mail messages...
Internet Explorer users, envy Firefox no more: IE7Pro is a free utility that adds a wealth of features and customization options to Internet Explorer 7. For example, it can perform screen grabs of entire Web pages (not just what's currently in view) and save the results in various formats (GIF, J...
A few months ago, Rick brought up the topic of work collaboration through "mind mapping" using the web tool MindMeister. If the concept of mind mapping is still a bit daunting, check out the simple and stripped-down app called bubbl.us that the folks at Web Worker Daily were just playing around wi...
It's an age-old problem: Your music collection sits idle on your home PC while you toil in silence at the office. Liberate your library with JukeFly, a free Web service that streams your music to any PC, as long as it's online. All you do is sign up for an account, then download the small Juk...
Online backup service Mozy just unveiled a Mac version of its software, thus giving OS X users a great way to archive their data. True to its name, MozyHome was designed with home users in mind -- though it's just as well-suited to home offices and small businesses. (A more corporate-minded versi...
Gas is currently selling for around $3.69 per gallon in my neck of the woods -- ay caramba! Luckily, my commute to work involves only a flight of stairs, so I'm not feeling the pinch as much as some. If you're a more typical commuter, head to our very own government's list of tips for improving gas ...
