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Remember the CradlePoint CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router, which leverages your broadband USB modem to create a go-anywhere Wi-Fi hotspot? The WAAV AirBox CM3 does more or less the same thing, except that it packs its own 3G modem. In other words, it's a hotspot-in-a-box -- or, if you prefer, an enter...
A few months ago, I mentioned SimulScribe, the voicemail transcription service that allows you to read your voice messages instead of listening to them (and waiting 45 seconds each time for that annoying automated lady to finish her spiel). The biggest drawback of the great service, I noted, was t...
When it comes to opening a new business, launching a new product, or evaluating just about any kind of business idea, nothing beats market research. Normally you have to shell out big bucks for it, but a site called ZipSkinny provides an abundance of it free of charge. Just enter any U.S. ZIP code t...
Take a social Q&A site like Askville or Yahoo Answers and give it a job-interview slant. The result: InterviewUp, a place where you can ask, answer, and read interview questions. The idea here is to help you find good answers to those really tricky interview questions, like "What would you say t...
Remember the Seinfeld bit about public speaking? "According to most studies, people's number-one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two? Does that seem right? To the average person, that means that if they have to go to a funeral, they'd rather be in the casket than givin...
Though I often wish otherwise, the fact remains that the paperless office is still a ways off. But if I can't ditch my stapler and paperclips just yet, at least I can reduce their footprint with a nifty Office Assistant from Tool Logic. Besides the basics, this deck-of-cards-sized multi-tool also ...
As you may have heard, Wal-Mart recently began selling the Everex TC2502, a.k.a. the gPC (and, in some corners, the Google PC). For the grand sum of $199 (plus tax), you get a fairly capable desktop system running the gOS, a Google-centric version of Ubuntu Linux. So, does the gPC have any place ...
Hey, is that Photoshop running in your browser? At first glance, you might easily mistake Splashup for it -- this Web-based image editor offers a decidedly Photoshop-like tool set wrapped in a mighty pretty Flash-based interface. That means you can use the service on just about any PC running ...
Not having the best luck with your e-mail marketing campaigns? Marketing Pilgrim has a few suggestions, starting with this: Personalize the subject line with the recipient's name. It turns out one of the most important factors when it comes to email is to personalize the subject line. So use the ...
Believe it or not, solid writing skills still count for something in today's world. When you craft a brochure, a business report, or Web site copy that reads like a third-grader wrote it, it reflects poorly on you and your business. Lifehack.org aims to make you a better writer by making you a bette...
If you're not acquainted with Google Notebook, you should be. It lets you clip and organize portions of Web pages, just like ripping articles out of newspapers and magazines. Google recently updated the service, adding Gmail-style labels for easier organization of your clips. For example, when ...
A PDA or smartphone can be a great place to store PINs, passwords, Social Security numbers, and other critical information -- provided you don't store everything in a memo or some other easily discovered location. (I know far too many people who do this. What happens if someone steals your handheld?...
Put an end to your BlackBerry envy: mNotes5 wirelessly syncs Lotus Notes with any Windows Mobile 5/6 PDA or smartphone. In addition to e-mail, the software syncs your contacts, calendar, and tasks, and does so with military-grade security. It enables Sametime users to access the service via thei...
Facebook -- that's the social networking site used by college students, right? Not any more: Facebook has evolved into one of the Web's largest networks, with something like 46 million users. So what does this mean to you and your business? With a little know-how, you can use Facebook as a powerful ...
Want to make your calendar a little more visible? Michael Scrivo's Outlook on the Desktop does exactly that: It pins the Outlook calendar to your desktop. Even better, it's fully functional: You can interact with the calendar just like you would in Outlook proper. (You can also view your Inbox, cont...
