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The next time you get into your hotel room on a business trip, there's no need to order a movie or listen to crappy music on the room's stereo. Simply take out your iPod and use the SendStation PocketDock AV to plug it into whatever appliance or outlet you want. With USB ports as well as composite a...
Ah, the venerable PDF -- where would we be without it? Last week I told you about three programs for viewing PDF files; now it's time to learn some nifty PDF tricks. My old cohorts at Lifehacker have wrangled up 10 of them, including making your own notepaper, password-protecting your PDFs, and conv...
Blog posts, press releases, marketing materials -- whatever you write, it's essential to top it with a killer headline so you attract the reader's attention. Web Worker Daily offers seven tips on crafting headlines that'll woo readers. A sampling: Suggest That You Know a Secret. Sometimes a simpl...
If you've ever been frustrated by a scratched CD, a fouled-up flash drive, or an unreadable memory card full of important photos, you'll definitely want to check out Elprime Media Recovery. This small utility (it's all of 500K) promises to recover data from just about any kind of media. Now for t...
A year or so ago, I wrote a magazine article (that never ran) about a blind medical student and the technology he used to get around the hospital wards. Though he had tons of really cool gadgets—like an optacon that converts visual images to vibrations—I was most impressed by the fact th...
Wi-Fi hotspots are all over the place these days, but it's not like you can detect them by sniffing the air. Windows Mobile PDA/smartphone users have a new ally in the search for hotspots: Pocket WiFi Radar. This cool-looking utility (which, true to its name, resembles a radar screen) not only dete...
Productivity501 blogger Mark Shead dreams of a paperless office -- and he's identified all the components he'll need to make it happen. The list starts with a scanner, of course, and also includes a shredder, secure storage, a document management system, and a backup system. Of course, this isn't ju...
If you don't know LinkedIn from link sausage and think MySpace has something to do with closets, then you're missing out on golden opportunities to build and market your business. So says Inc.com's Michael Fitzgerald, who explains how you can leverage six social-networking sites to find professional...
Even the most conspiracy-theory-averse folks often have no trouble believing that electronics manufacturers design their products to malfunction right after their warranties expire. Having dealt with enough products that crapped out well before my one-year was up, though, I'm much more inclined to...
Nobody likes to be criticized, and it's usually not a fun experience for the person who's doing it, either. The ever-helpful Lifehack.org has seven suggestions for delivering criticism without the usual bad feelings that go with it. For example: I have made the same mistake myself. This never fai...
Google Pack, a nifty bundle of free software (including such gems as Google Earth, Picasa, and Spyware Doctor), just landed a major addition: Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 8. This full-featured office suite ($70 if purchased directly from Sun) includes a word processor, spreadsheet manager, presenta...
Goal-management blog Achieve-IT! just posted a review of SpeedFiler 2.0, which the author calls an "e-mail filer on steroids." This Outlook add-on promises to speed up and simplify the filing of e-mail into folders -- inbound and outbound messages alike. All you do is press Ctrl-Shift-V, then choose...
Good news for Gmail users: You can now increase your storage space. If you've been using your Gmail account as a place to store files and photos, you may have noticed that you're bumping up against the 2.8 gig limit. (Click here to check how much space you've got left.) Instead of opening multiple...
Microsoft tends to make pretty boring choices when it comes to naming stuff, so imagine my surprise upon discovering that Windows Live Folders -- the company's online-storage service -- had been renamed Windows Live SkyDrive. Now that's a name! The service itself is attractive and robust, offering p...
Need a fast and easy way to share a document with co-workers? Try Zoho Viewer, the latest addition to the Zoho suite of online apps. All you do is choose the desired document, then click the View button. Zoho uploads the document, displays it in your browser (with all formatting intact), and gives y...
