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Old way to search the Web on your BlackBerry: Fire up your browser, surf to whatever site you want to search, scroll around until you find the search box, and then input your terms. New way: Run GoogHelper, a Web-search tool for BlackBerrys. All you do is type your query into GoogHelper's search ...
Here's something I've experienced firsthand: Some Web site copies your original work and passes it off as their own. Unfortunately, unless someone brings it to your attention, it's almost impossible to uncover this kind of plagiarism. Enter Copyscape, a free service that searches for copies of any ...
Sure, you have anti-virus and anti-spyware utilities installed on your PC, but are they really getting the job done? Panda ActiveScan is a browser-based system scanner that checks for viruses, worms, dialers, and other kinds of malware, effectively offering a "second opinion" without the need to ins...
Not looking forward to the Ides of April? A new startup called Sexat ("Taxes" backwards, get it?) has worked out a deal to let you SMS your 1099s and W2s directly to the IRS—no H&R Block schmoe needed. All you have to do is follow the simple guidelines on the IRS's website. Basically, you t...
This is about as anti-productivity as you can get, and at first glance I honestly thought it was an April Fool's joke, but it's quite real: Activision just announced that uber-popular console game Guitar Hero is now available for BlackBerry. The game, a 3-button version of the original, comes wi...
In response to sluggish Vista sales, Microsoft announced today the Vista Payback Program, which effectively pays users to adopt the much-maligned operating system. "We believe that once users get some hands-on time with Vista, they'll fall in love with it," said Microsoft marketing VP Bob Loblaw....
A new study published in today's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that highly stressed workers can benefit from consuming three alcoholic beverages at lunchtime. Here's an excerpt: Participants in the study reported that [after the lunch hour] their workloads no longer seemed as daunting, a...
The time for buying valuable websites that contain important keywords for just a few bucks is over. Domain speculators have snatched up tens of millions of websites, and they've got intricate setups to make sure that they're the first to any other valuable sites that come onto the market in the fu...
Feel like you're drowning in a deluge of phone calls? If you're a Windows Mobile smartphone user, you can block unwanted calls with Call Firewall. Compatible with Windows Mobile 5 and 6, this utility lets you configure your phone to handle calls in several different ways. For instance, you can al...
Hot on the heels of human-resources manager Zoho People comes Zoho Invoice, an invoice-management application that lives on the Web. You can see it in action via the Zoho Show slideshow up above. (How's that for using one of your products to market one of your other products?) In a nutshell, Zoho...
Although plenty of services let you edit photos online (Picnik ranks among my favorites), none has quite the name recognition of Adobe Photoshop. The company's new Photoshop Express provides photo editing, storage, and sharing tools, all wrapped in one seriously slick Web interface. Currently in ...
A few months ago, Rick listed a bunch of free desktop search programs that produce instant search results from your documents, photos, and e-mail messages. I used to use Google Desktop to search my computer drives for specific files, but I found that it ate up too much of my system memory when it ra...
Here in Detroit, we're watching with dismay as Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick faces indictments over an alleged affair -- one that came to light after the discovery of old text messages. Troubling as the situation is, it raises even more troubling questions about SMS privacy: Is there any? Yahoo Tech's Gina...
Before you spend hundreds of dollars on the latest version of Microsoft Office, consider a less-expensive alternative: OpenOffice, which offers business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, and drawing. Because it's open-source software, it doesn't cost a penny. The ...
As someone who routinely sends out newsletters to large subscriber bases, I've moved beyond the BCC-ed bulk email as a way to communicate with my customers. Instead, I use Campaign Monitor, which is well worth the $10 or so it charges me to send out an email newsletter. Here's why: First, I ...
