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Power: There's never enough, at least when you're a notebook-carrying road warrior. Electrovaya's PowerPad 130 is a flat, tablet-size portable power supply that promises to let your notebook run 3-4 times longer between charges. The 2-pound pad includes a fuel gauge and a pair of USB ports for charg...
Flash drives are fantastic for transporting data, but they're also easily lost or stolen. iHound is a new service designed to help you recover missing drives, iPods, digital cameras, and even cell phones. How does it work? Basically, you install a small, secret, auto-running program on the drive or ...
Duplicates happen. Sometimes it's the result of funky synchronization software, and sometimes, well... Outlook is a Microsoft product, after all. (Ooooh, cheap shot.) If you've noticed more than a few dupes in your address book, there's a fairly quick and effective way to clear them out. Just follow...
Why should you have a usb-powered remote (like the one shown on the left) for your computer? There are a lot of reasons. First, it combines the PowerPoint usefulness (and laser pointer) of this wireless presenter with the folds-into-your-laptop's-PCMCIA-Slot portability of a Mogo mouse. Second, ...
My sister-in-law's starting a home-based business, for which she'll undoubtedly need a dedicated phone line. My recommendation: MagicJack, which provides a local phone number, unlimited local and long-distance calling, voice mail, caller ID, and other handy features, all for $40. Actually, that's ...
A ZIP file is a compressed file that contains one or more other files. ALZip is a free utility that allows you to create and decompress ZIP files -- and not just ZIP files, but also ARJ, ISO, RAR, and 30-odd other formats. The program incorporates a cute, friendly interface, and it's much easier to ...
Nothing kills productivity like lost data. If your hard drive is experiencing "click of death" throes, your notebook just took a sickening dive to the pavement, or you're suddenly unable to retrieve crucial files from a flash drive, don't panic -- head to Staples instead. The office-supply store...
Open-source software has a lot going for it. It's free, it's constantly being improved upon, and it doesn't rely on proprietary formatting. (Did I mention it's free?) Unfortunately, it can also be confusing to figure out which programs are worthwhile and which ones you need to be a programmer to...
It's often staggering when you add up the amount of time you spend in the car (or, say, on the train) commuting to and from work each day. The Productivity Cafe offers 7 tips on making the most of that time (or reducing it), including: Work at home regularly. Over 20% of office workers currentl...
Overseas travel is expensive enough without spending a small fortune on phone calls. One way to save yourself -- or, heck, even your company -- some major coin is with the Go-Sim, a prepaid SIM card that works in over 140 countries. Just pop it into your phone and get free incoming calls (in over 50...
Anyone with a career in sales has probably heard the name Brian Tracy. He's the author of countless books on achieving success, one of which you can get free in e-book form. Principles of Success is available as a downloadable PDF from motivation-advice site Motivation Point. Among other things, the...
A recent Web Worker Daily post suggested that instant messaging is a workplace-productivity killer to be avoided (but then went on to offer 17 tips for making better use of it). A follow-up post argues that IM can actually improve your productivity by minimizing interruptions and improving communica...
First Zoho Writer spiffs up with new features, and now Zoho Creator -- a drag-and-drop database builder -- breaks free of the browser. Well, the desktop browser, anyway: Zoho Creator Mobile allows you to access your databases right on your phone, viewing and entering data while you're on the run. ...
It's the day after Turkey Day, and you're hungover from a day of stuffing your face, laying on the couch, and, well, drinking too much. Is it worth it to haul your butt out of bed and go stand in line in the cold with a bunch of pushy folks just to save a few bucks on cool gadgets? If you don't do...
A couple weeks ago, to the delight of countless users, Gmail rolled out IMAP access. But did you know the "new Gmail" has other new features worth crowing about as well? So says The Official Gmail Blog, which lists five little-known Gmail features. Here's one of them: Bookmark emails I frequently...
