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Next time you're up for a performance review, Slacker Manager reminds you to bring along a folder chock-full of praise for you and your work. Sure, you have to fill the folder up yourself, but it's a great way to remind bosses, clients, and even yourself that you're a good worker in need of more v...
Talk about found money: jkOnTheRun shows how you might be able to get a discount on your monthly cell phone bill. For example, if your employer is a T-Mobile Business Customer, you might be eligible for a 15-percent savings -- even on a phone that's for personal use. You may have to fill out a for...
You know the drill: You assign everyone a few tasks that are crucial to getting the project done on time and under budget, but a day later you've forgotten who's supposed to do what. (What, you're supposed to keep notes?) TaskBin, a self-proclaimed "shared to-do list," helps you manage group tas...
Adding a second monitor to your PC can boost your productivity like you wouldn't believe. But if there's no money in the budget (or room on the desk) for another LCD, try the next best thing: a virtual desktop. Microsoft's oldie-but-goodie Virtual Desktop Manager, for example, lets you manage up to ...
A flash drive is essential gear for modern business folk, but are you using yours to its full potential? Start by stocking it with an office suite that runs straight from the drive, leaving no footprint on whatever PC you plug it into. ThinkFree Office Portable Edition is one such suite, offering Of...
It's a huge pain to manually copy someone's contact information from his/her e-mail signature to a new record in Outlook. Anagram (Windows) makes it a lot quicker and easier: Just highlight the text you want to add (it can be from an e-mail or any other application), then click the Anagram icon in...
There you are, right in the middle of a good work groove, when, ping! -- your mail client sounds the new-mail notification bell. And who can resist checking the inbox right there and then? No one, which is why e-mail is more of a productivity killer than you might think. Productivity501 offers this ...
Common problem: You work in that corner of the office where Wi-Fi reception is weak at best. Or maybe you're juuust out of range of that Wi-Fi hotspot. hField Technologies' Wi-Fire combines a high-powered antenna with a super-sensitive receiver to give your notebook three times its normal range. May...
The more you travel, the tougher it gets to keep track of all your flights, hotels, car rentals, and other reservations. TripIt keeps everything organized under one roof, and without all the hassles of manually entering the details. All you do is forward the confirmation e-mails you receive fro...
Emptying your recycling bin doesn't completely erase files that you don't want other people to get a hold of. In fact, despite what your repairman might say, it's not that hard to reconstitute "deleted" documents. So if you're planning to throw away your hard drive (or if you're worried about yo...
Traveling overseas? Need to communicate better with foreign language-speaking colleagues? Mango's got you covered. This Web-based classroom offers lessons in 11 different languages, including Chinese, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. In each lesson you're taught specific phrases, which you c...
You already know you can get driving directions on your phone from Google SMS, but now there's an even easier way: Dial Directions. Just dial "DIR-ECT-IONS" (347-328-4667), then say where you are and where you'd like to go. In short order the service will sent you a text message with step-by-ste...
IBM gunning for Microsoft? Man, that takes me back. The company just announced IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of software tools for creating and sharing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Sound like any other office suite you know? The difference is that while Microsoft Office costs hundr...
If you're a negotiation pro, you've probably got an arsenal of persuasion techniques to turn to when you're trying to get what you want. If you're like many of the rest of us, though, your lone hope is that the other party is just as terrible at negotiating as you are—or takes pity on you. In...
Web Worker Daily corrals five productivity-boosting add-ins for Microsoft Word, though some of them are limited to the 2007 version of product. Here's the best of the lot: Microsoft Save as PDF. Do you need to take Word or other Microsoft Office documents and save them as PDF files? Microsoft offer...
