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It's hard to find an extension cord that's long enough to reach all the way to your car -- especially when it's tooling down the highway. Kensington's Auto Power Inverter turns your cigarette lighter into an AC outlet, one that can power your notebook PC, cell phone, printer, or just about any other...
Google's long-awaited browser-based presentation tool, announced last April, has finally arrived. Here's the scoop, straight from the Official Google Blog: Starting today, presentations -- whether imported from existing files or created using the new slide editor -- are listed alongside documents a...
How do you make yourself productive when you're having an off-day? I usually take a break and allow myself to play a game or watch a funny video on the condition that when it's over, I'll get back to work. Some days, that's just the ticket. Other days, I spend far too much time on YouTube. So I'm...
Moving large batches of files from one PC to another can be a royal pain. Unless they're both connected to a network, you're stuck with trying to copy everything to space-limited flash drives or, horrors, CDs/DVDs. It might be worth investing in a product like The Tornado, which connects a pair...
It's hard enough to stand in front of a group of peers, bosses, customers, or the general public without the added worry that you're boring them to death. Success-building blog Quick Sprout offers 10 tips for giving killer presentations; here are three of the best: Make them laugh - Although you...
As I've mentioned before, Google SMS is a fabulous tool for fetching information from your cell phone. Just shoot a text message to 466453 (GOOGLE) and you can get all kinds of helpful stuff in return: flight status, business listings, weather reports, driving directions, and so on. Of course, if yo...
See the speaker in this picture? She looks pretty tense, and she's definitely not smiling. Bad presenter. Bad! She should follow the advice of the aptly named Great Presentations Mean Business blog, which offers three simple ways to improve presentations by improving your body language. And here t...
If you fly a lot, it's probably just a matter of time before an airline manages to lose your luggage. The Consumerist explains what you should do in the event your bag goes hopelessly AWOL. Here's an excerpt: Make an itemized list of all your lost stuff. The airline is going to compensate you fo...
The not-so-dumb Dumb Little Man blog lists 10 tips on mastering the art of referrals, which are crucial to improving sales. For example: Ask Every Client. Make it a habit to ask every client if they know someone who could use your services. Explain to your client how this is a win for them too. The...
A couple weeks ago, Gmail marketing manager Bill Kee listed five little-known Gmail features. Now he's back with five more, including this little gem: Conversation update notification It can be really annoying to write up a whole response to an email and click send -- only to discover that someon...
It kind of boggles my mind that the Windows Mobile operating system -- which can be found on popular smartphones like the Motorola Q and Samsung BlackJack -- doesn't let you create or edit Office documents. You can view them, but that's it. DataViz's Documents To Go 3.0 for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartp...
If you use Microsoft Outlook to manage your contacts, you've probably spent a lot of time manually transferring names, companies, and phone numbers into the fields provided. It's a drag, and it usually means that you're willing folks on the margins slide by without collecting their vitals. (Unless...
Tired of waiting five or 10 minutes for your computer to boot? Malware could be the culprit, so make sure to run anti-spyware software. But another source of slow booting is all the software that's trying to run the moment Windows starts. Startup Delayer takes a clever approach to this by letting yo...
You already love the Firefox Web browser for its tabbed windows, cool extensions, and other spiffy features. Now learn how to be more productive with it, courtesy of PC World's 15 undocumented Firefox tips. The article includes keyboard shortcuts, Web-search tweaks, security tips, and optimization t...
I take screenshots pretty much everyday, for multiple reasons. Sometimes I want to point out an incomprehensible (to me!) bug to an IT guy, give someone a preview of a website I'm emailing them about, or grab a still of a presentation I'm watching. For most of these things, my Prt Scrn button work...
