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Few programs can touch Excel when it comes to churning out charts and business graphics. Web Worker Daily offers seven tips on improving your Excel charts and graphics, starting with "speed charts": Before you start going to work on formatting a chart and making it look pretty, take a peek at it. ...
Workplace conflicts and miscommunications happen all the time. How can you protect yourself from accusations, reprimands, and other misery-causing office situations? Lifehacker's Gina Trapani says good note-taking skills can save the day. For example: What do butt-covering notes look like? First, a...
Before now, there hasn't been a great way to make cheap international phone calls while you're traveling, and maintain all the functionality of your regular phone. SkypeIn works great--if you're on your computer. An unlocked phone works great--but no one back home can call you. Now, though, a small ...
In case you missed yesterday's announcement, Palm just unveiled a new smartphone: the Centro, which goes on sale in two weeks for the tantalizing price of $99 (with a two-year Sprint contract). Like its big brother, the Treo, the Centro runs the Palm Operating System, meaning it's compatible with th...
Are you really going to rely on that flaky hotel alarm-clock to make sure you don't miss your early-morning flight, meeting, interview, etc? For an added layer of protection, schedule a wake-up call with Wakerupper. It takes all of two minutes: Just input the date and time when you want to receive t...
So you finally talked the boss into letting you telecommute a few days each week. Or you've chucked the daily grind altogether and set up shop in your basement. Whatever your work-at-home scenario, you may discover it's tougher than you think to be productive. Wired's How To Wiki offers these and ot...
Ever wish you could draw more visitors to your site? Web Worker Daily offers seven tips for getting people to pay attention to your corner of the Web, including one that may seem a little sexist: Target women. "Women represent a new gold standard in the marketplace. In study after study, wome...
If you've never checked out Google Book Search, which allows you to search and read the contents of complete texts, now's the time. The site's redesigned home page now lets you browse by book cover, a much more interesting way to explore the collection. You can start with the various categories on d...
Fuser is a recently launched email and social network message aggregator. You plug in your logins and passwords and—presto!—all of your emails, wall posts, etc. show up in the same inbox. Sounds easy, but maybe a little discombobulating to deal with all of this information in one place.Â...
Want to broadcast a sales presentation or product demonstration to a group of clients? Or hold a virtual meeting with the members of your project team? Yugma lets you do both. This Web-based service offers desktop sharing, online whiteboards, free teleconferencing (normal long-distance charges app...
When it comes to finding your way from point A to point B (with the occasional visit to point C), nothing beats a GPS navigation system. These devices provide real-time driving directions, displaying your position on a moving map and prompting you when it's time to turn. Many vehicles now come w...
Here at Business Hacks, we've mentioned the idea of outsourcing some of your drudge work to others before—and the sites like getfriday.com and yourmaninindia.com that can help you do it. But over at 43 folders, Ryan Norbauer goes into detail about getting rid of the mental blocks that prevent m...
Here's an ingenious way to make your file drawer more manageable: Cut the logos from company letterheads (or copy and print them from the Web) and slip them into the clear-plastic tabs for your file dividers. That way you'll be able to identify desired folders at a glance. Sure, there's a little leg...
Many business users rely on big, bloated, complicated Outlook for e-mail because they think it's the only available choice. Not so: There's also Thunderbird, the mega-popular open-source e-mail client from the folks who brought you the Firefox Web browser. Marketing Pilgrim offers 10 reasons why you...
iPhone-owning Google Calendar users, this is your lucky day. The Google Powers That Be just updated everybody's favorite online calendar to support the iPhone directly, meaning you can now view your calendar(s) on the go. Just point your iPhone's browser to calendar.google.com, then sign in like you...
