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Doesn't it seem like you never get enough talk time from your phone? If the battery's a couple years old, replace it -- batteries wear out. On the other hand, maybe you just need to do a better job managing and conserving power. WikiHow shows you how to make your phone battery last long between char...
It's now mid-January, meaning that many of you are now getting back to work after a long, well-deserved break. Over in the New York Times, Marci Alboher has a few tips for transmogrifying yourself back into work mode without too much trouble. Here's one of her most important tips—one that I ...
Remember ThinkFree Office Portable Edition, the office-suite-on-a-flash-drive? Say hello to the iPod offshoot: ThinkFree Office Show, iPod Edition. Unfortunately, this isn't the full suite of office apps, just the presentations module. But it sounds pretty cool: Plug your iPod into any PC and you ca...
Regular Business Hacks readers know of my fondness for Jott ("Duh, Rick, you plug it five times a day"), the phone-driven messaging service. And who can blame me? You can use Jott to send reminders to yourself, add events to your Google Calendar, and much more, all with nothing more than your cell ...
Tired of your cluttered, overstuffed Outlook inbox? Productivity Cafe's Susan Sabo says the path to inbox salvation lies in Outlook's rules feature, which you can configure to automatically direct new mail to designated folders. Consider: You could route mail from your boss to a Boss folder, ...
While everyone was oohing and awing over the new MacBook Air introduced today at MacWorld, there was another Jobsian announcement that sent my heart atwitter. The new Time Capsule solves a problem (for Macs only) that should have been solved for all computers a long time ago: How do you back up yo...
There's an old maxim: acting is reacting. I'd argue that the same philosophy applies to business: Your success hinges on how you react to various situations, like impending deadlines, make-or-break sales pitches, and people who say and do stupid things. React positively to everything that comes your...
If you love Google Calendar but hate having to load it in a new tab or window every time you want to check your schedule or add an event, here's a great solution: Add it to your Firefox sidebar so it's always visible. Here's how, as described by Firefox Facts: Create a new bookmark (right-cl...
Remember Drop.io, the online dropbox for files? The service just added a nifty new option: audio recording. Now, when you create a drop, you get a phone number and extension you can dial into to record meetings, podcasts, reminders, or whatever. Here's how it works: Dial the number, wait for the pr...
Here's a great tip for Gmail users: You can quickly and easily send mail to a batch of recipients (clients, team members, etc.) using contact groups. The Official Gmail Blog explains how, but here's the process in a nutshell: Fire up Gmail, then click the Contacts link. Click the New Group...
E-mail has become the de facto method of communication for most business folks, but that doesn't mean we're always smart about the messages we send. The Bad Language blog offers 10 laws for better e-mail; here's a sampling: The headline is the email. The subject line should be clear, factual and...
Last week we told you about PDF Hammer, which lets you reorder PDF pages, join multiple documents, and more using a simple Web service. But what if you want to actually edit the innards of a PDF, to make changes or additions to the content? For that, look to Free PDF to Word Converter. True to i...
If you're a frequent business traveler, you know the feeling of returning to a house full of junk mail and unpaid bills. For a monthly fee (starting at $10), there's a clever way around this: Redirect your mail to an Earth Class Mail. At their facility, they send scans of your envelopes to your em...
Need to edit a PDF on the run, like when you're away from your computer and don't have access to local software like CutePDF Pro? Try PDF Hammer, a free Web service that lets you reorder and delete pages and join multiple PDFs into a single document. All you do is upload one or more PDFs, then us...
Xobni, the super-cool Outlook add-on David wrote about last month, still requires an invitation if you want to check out the beta -- and Business Hacks has 50 of 'em! Just click here, enter your e-mail address, and use this code: BNET. (Tricky, eh?) The invites are first come, first served, so make ...
