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Both Rick and I have pointed out the great new(ish) Google products for cellphones: 1-800-GOOG-411 and Google SMS. Deciding which one to use is more than a matter of preferring to talk or use your thumbs, though. I use GOOG-411 when I'm driving or walking and need to find something fast. As Steve...
Don't take meetings sitting down. That's the advice of blogger and professional organizer John Trosko, who discovered the benefits of "stand-up" meetings: Instead of sitting at a traditional conference table, we took the chairs out of the room and ran meetings while standing on our feet. Well, th...
Are you run down? Listless? Do you poop out at parties? (Sorry, channeled Lucy there for a minute.) Life-tips blog Dumb Little Man says that by performing a series of stretches -- all of which you can do right at your desk -- you can drive oxygen to your brain, relieve stressed muscles, and even rem...
I've been a fan of Wired's How Tos for a while (not least because I've contributed to the print version in the past), but recently, their venture into the How To wikisphere has produced several excellent and extremely relevant business-related pieces. Rick recently filled you in on how to get work...
If you're not soliciting customer feedback via e-mail, you should be. As research firm MarketingSherpa recently reported, e-mail surveys offer easy tracking, rapid response, and instant reporting. Plus, they're incredibly budget-friendly. The report offers five tips on improving survey results, inc...
A couple days ago we wrote about the CradlePoint CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router, which turns a wireless modem into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot. As astute reader kevinkpierce pointed out, Mac users can accomplish more or less the same thing without the extra hardware: Just share your connection: go to ...
Capitalizing on the growing number of smartphones equipped with GPS, Garmin has introduced the Mobile XT: a complete navigation system contained on a microSD card. Just pop it into your phone to turn it into a full-featured GPS, complete with moving maps, turn-by-turn directions, automatic route-r...
Despite increasing competition from Firefox, Internet Explorer remains the world's most widely used Web browser. Web Worker Daily rounded up six essential tools designed to improve your IE productivity and efficiency. Take a gander at two of them: CG4IE. The CG4IE extension's name stands for C...
Like the old saying goes: You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much battery power. Battery supplier AtBatt.com offers 20 tips for squeezing more juice out of your notebook's battery -- five more than we listed previously. As you might expect, the author advises against power-sucking acti...
If you've ever been on a conference call with clients or co-workers and wished they could see what's on your screen (say, a new product schematic or project spreadsheet), check out YuuGuu. It's part instant-messaging client, part Web-conferencing tool, and part remote-access/sharing utility. On ...
Right now I'm totally digging the Sierra Wireless U595 USB modem, which plugs into my notebook to provide high-speed Internet access just about anywhere. The only thing that would make it better is if I could share the wireless love with my co-workers. CradlePoint's CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router ma...
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, MSN Careers offers 10 snappy responses to use when you realize someone just asked you a question, but you have no idea what it was because you were zoned out. (If you're anything like me, this happens three or four times a day.) A sampling: "I'm not going t...
Okay, management, this one's for you. If you've resisted your employees' pleas to work from home or you've reluctantly allowed it but think you're getting the short end of the stick, check out Web Worker Daily's post on challenging telework myths. See, bosses hate the idea of telework (a.k.a. telec...
If you're traveling out of the US, you might want to reserve your airplane tickets and rental cars through a website based out of the country you're going to. An article in the New York Times Travel section found that you can often save a significant amount of money on all sorts of travel expenses...
Most small-business owners rank accounting right up there with root canals and zoning permits. CashView promises to lighten your accounts-payable and -receivable load by helping you pay bills, send and manage invoices, and keep tabs on everything. Inbound bills can be uploaded, e-mailed, or ...
