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Feel like time is your adversary rather than your ally? Maybe you need to get a little better at managing the sucker. Dumb Little Man offers 11 tips for improving time-management, including these nuggets: Concentrate on One Thing: The human mind works more efficiently when it is focused. As weâ€...
If you rely heavily on instant messaging for business communications, you've probably wished for a way to store conversations for future reference. Simkl archives instant messages to an online server and lets you search and share them. This "history saver" works with virtually all IM clients, fro...
Borrowing icons from the iPhone and ideas from Yahoo Go, Google2Go provides Windows Mobile users with an attractive, unified interface for accessing various Google mobile services. Specifically, you can use the tool to tap Web and local searches, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs...
Web-based Xpenser aims to take the hassle out of expense-tracking. The free service lets you submit expenses via e-mail, instant message, text message, Twitter, or even Jott. With so many options, it should be no trouble to record expenses no matter where you are. After signing up and configurin...
Sleep mode on a Mac is great, usually. Your laptop goes dark right away, and all your data will be kept in RAM, making it a snap to get back to once you're ready to work again. The only problem? Sleep mode drains your battery ever so slightly; if you underestimate your time away from a plug, you c...
Having already increased its lead over Google Docs with features like page view and headers and footers, Web-based word processor Zoho Writer raised the stakes again yesterday with even more improvements. Among them: DocX export Now you can export documents in Microsoft's latest file format, me...
A video tutorial (a.k.a. screencast) can be a great way to teach new hires how to use company systems, show prospective customers a killer product demo, and so on. The always-informative MakeUseOf lists five free applications (for Windows and Mac) you can use to whip up video tutorials right on ...
There's a new kid on the Google Apps block. Google Sites enables companies, teams, schools, and other organizations to create information-packed Web sites. The first fruit of Google's 2007 acquisition of wiki-builder JotSpot, Sites lets you "centralize all types of information -- from videos t...
From blog posts to brochures to text messages, spelling errors have no place in professional communications. Unfortunately, while most word processors have their own spell-checkers, few other programs do. Enso Words is a universal spell-checker, meaning it works in any application. Use it to fi...
Bored by the current crop of Bluetooth headsets? The Bluetrek Bizz has two nifty tricks up its hands-free sleeve. First, it charges via USB, so there's one less AC adapter to carry in your bag. Second, it accommodates microSD memory cards, so it doubles as both a card reader and flash drive. As a...
As Wired editor Chris Anderson points out in a pretty cool article in this month's magazine, online businesses are starting to realize that Freeconomics is the new order of the day. It's why this post you're reading is available to everyone, and why Google has become one of the biggest companies in ...
A hardcore Firefox user, I usually keep upwards of a dozen tabs open at any given time. The problem is, I frequently need to jump back and forth between the same two tabs, which is difficult when they're not adjacent. Sure, I could drag one of them next to the other, but that's not my idea of a prac...
When you hit the road, what kind of smartphone rides shotgun? Are you packing a BlackBerry? Rocking an iPhone? Talking on a Treo? (Okay, enough with the weak alliteration.) Satisfy our insatiable curiosity and vote in our latest poll. Then answer the big question: Do you like your smartphone? Hi...
If you spend a lot of time using Microsoft's ubiquitous word processor, wouldn't it be great if you could spend less time using it? Web Worker Daily offers 12 time-savers for Microsoft Word, starting with this one: Paste Your Formats. If you want to apply your formatting and styles for a given para...
Remember Windows Live SkyDrive, Microsoft's free file-sharing and -storage service? When I first wrote about it last August, it limited users to a paltry 500MB of space. But last week, Microsoft bumped the cap to 5 gigabytes, making SkyDrive a lot more useful. What's more, SkyDrive is now availab...
