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Here's a little DIY goodness for this lazy holiday work-week: a simple and inexpensive way to boost the signal output from your Wi-Fi router.
It's still two days until Turkey Day, but mentally you're on vacation already. The office is probably quieter than usual, what with some folks having left early to visit relatives, and the major projects have either been wrapped up or postponed until after the holiday. So, how can you take advantage...
Today, Amazon made a foray into hardware with the Kindle wireless reading device, a $399 e-ink gadget that CEO Jeff Bezos promises will make reading as easy as thumbing through a paperback. Indeed, the device has lots of cool features, including a long battery life and free access to many website...
So you're headed to New York for a conference. Hmmm... wonder who else will be there. Colleagues? Co-workers? Others in your field? Find out with Placely, a social-networking site designed to help business travelers connect. All you do is input a few details about your upcoming trip: Placely show...
What sets you off? A co-worker who doesn't refill the copier paper tray? A boss who cracks inappropriate jokes? Excessive memos in your inbox? According to Lifehack.org, everyone has "hot buttons": sensitive spots that get triggered by events or circumstances. And if you succumb to emotion when thos...
gMOVE helps you with moving day. Specifically, it simplifies the migration from Outlook to Gmail and hosted Google Apps accounts. On the e-mail front, it uploads Outlook messages and attachments to your Gmail account and turns your Outlook folders into Gmail filters with labels. (You can choose the...
There are plenty of ways to share your PowerPoint presentations online. You can upload them to a site like Docstoc or SlideShare, or you can use a program like PPT to YouTube to put them on -- you guessed it -- YouTube. The software will convert presentations to either MP4 or WMV format (both of...
If you spend a good chunk of your day hunched over a desk, it's a good idea to take regular breaks. Ideally, regular stretch breaks, like the kind provided by DeskHappy. This site provides a daily dose of stretches and breathing exercises you can do right at your desk, all of them demonstrated in m...
When I want word processing on the Web, I instinctively reach for Google Docs -- mostly because I'm so steeped in other Google apps. But you know what? Zoho Writer is the superior Web word-processor, what with its Microsoft Office Plug-In and the various new features it just rolled out. The latt...
Straight from the Why-Didn't-Someone-Think-of-This-Sooner Files comes ClickZap, an ingenious little utility that performs a specific task when you double-click your right mouse button. Yep, the right one. All you do is install the program, then choose one of the following functions: Lock the com...
EverNote for Windows lets you create notes and to-do lists, import and manage cameraphone photos, capture Web clips, and more. In short, it's a robust note-taking and document-organization tool, one that's especially useful for Tablet PC users. Normally it runs $49.95, but you can get it free of cha...
If you're planning to spring for a year of pre-paid T-Mobile HotSpot access, you can pay a little bit extra and get one of those new, colorful laptops that are part of the One Laptop Per Child effort. As part of their "Give One Get One" program, for $400, you get one of those weird laptops (whic...
Gotta love Web conferencing: It's the next best thing to being in the same room with far-flung clients, co-workers, and team members. Web Worker Daily has a roundup of 9 Web-conferencing services, ranging from Adobe Acrobat Connect to Yugma (which we've covered before). Not all of them are free -- i...
Many people go to great lengths to protect their PCs from viruses, spyware, and the like, but make absolutely no effort to back up their data. I know why: It's a confusing process and a pretty major hassle. Productivity501 offers 9 tips on making effective backups, all of them designed to teach you ...
I'm a big believer in to-do lists, but sometimes the sucker gets so long I just want to weep. (I mean, uh, smash things! Yeah, that's it, smash things.) Where are the elves who magically finish my work while I'm asleep? Until they arrive, I'm going to try Lifehack.org's 15 tips for making today the...
