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Do you get mad? Pour yourself a stiff drink? Take it out on someone else? Handle it with grace and charm? (Yeah, sure you do.) Nobody likes getting criticized, but it happens to the best of us -- and how you cope with it can make a huge difference in your workday world. Lifehack.org offers seven ti...
Travel site Orbitz just took the wraps off a new featured called Traveler Update, which relies on input from other travelers to give you the up-to-the-minute scoop on things like security-line wait times, airport traffic, and taxi lines. At the same time, it provides travel tools like flight status,...
Has anyone ever called you a Total Tool? Time to prove them right by investing in some Crayola Total Tools Erasable Highlighters (2/$5). One side turns text yellow and the other side removes the highlights. This is perfect if you're an overhighlighter—the type of person who initially thinks t...
You know the type: workplace jerks who make jokes at your expense, call you out for mistakes you haven't made, leave you out of the loop, and so on. Sometimes these folks are just an unfortunate part of business life. Life-tips blog Dumb Little Man offers tips on handling these workplace bullies. A ...
If you're frequently on the receiving end of e-mails that look like this... >>>Tomorrow's meeting has been >>>rescheduled and will take place>>> in conference room>>>A on the third>>>floor. >>>See you there!>>> John >>>&g...
Gmail Associate Product Marketing Manager Bill Kee lists five cool Gmail features you probably didn't know existed, including "reply by chat": Most people know that you can chat with your contacts in Gmail if they're using Gmail too. But there are some subtle features that make chat particularly us...
Previously, I mentioned Wired Magazine's How To issue as a cool places to learn simple tricks and strategies to make your business life a bit easier. Over at Wired's website, there's a new "How To Wiki" that combines the info from the magazine with several other sources in a fashion that users can...
Just yesterday I found myself using Google Docs (again) to write a column because I wasn't sitting at my usual PC (I'd taken a new notebook to a coffee shop for testing). And I remember thinking, "Dang, this is so convenient. I wonder if I could migrate all my office operations to the Web." The folk...
If you've purchased a new notebook or desktop PC recently, chances are extremely high that it came with Windows Vista. Chances are also pretty high that you're not thrilled with the machine's performance. That's because Vista is a slowpoke of an operating system, especially on notebooks (more on tha...
The editors of InsideCRM put together a list of 101 common-sense rules for leaders, all of them designed to help you become a more effective manager. The list is divided into categories like Body Language, Meeting Deadlines, and Boosting Productivity. Here's a selection: 53. Get to work early on oc...
What's better than books? Free books! Wowio offers a wide selection of titles, all of them available for download in PDF format, and all of them free. The only catch, if you can call it that, is that you must register with a "non-anonymous" e-mail address (Gmail, Yahoo, and other Web-mail accounts a...
I'm a huge fan of Meebo, the browser-based instant-messaging service that lets you chat with friends and co-workers on just about any IM network. eBuddy is a similar service, but with one key advantage: There's a mobile version that works on cell phones. Just point your phone's browser to m.ebuddy.c...
Several folks, including the former Notre Dame football coach and the former MIT dean of admissions, can tell you that upgrading your resume isn't as simple as adding on fake life experiences. Instead, you need to put as good a face as possible on what you've already got. Over at Life Clever, Cha...
If you work on more than one PC -- say, a desktop at home and a notebook at work -- you know what a struggle it can be to keep everything in sync: documents, bookmarks, programs, and the like. Lifehacker shows you how to maintain a consistent workspace, meaning a computing environment that stays mor...
Ever wish you could find out what bloggers, journalists, and everyday folks are saying about your company -- what the "buzz" is? Sure, there are professional services that will track it for you, but why spend money when you can do the job yourself, free of charge? Marketing Pilgrim lists 26 tools th...
