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Online collaboration can be a lifesaver when you need to work with folks in different offices, different cities, or even different countries. It's a way to chat, share a whiteboard, and even work in real-time on various documents. Enter Vyew, which lets you do all that and more. The service supports...
Calling all Basecamp users: TrailGuide lets you view and edit projects via your Windows Mobile smartphone. The software supports messages, to-do lists, milestones, and files, and lets you hop between multiple projects. You can post new items and comments and check out recent project activity via the...
I frequently recommend open-source office suite OpenOffice (say that five times fast) as a free alternative to Microsoft Office, but with one caveat: It doesn't support macros. If that's deal-breaker for you, you'll be glad to know about Groovy for OpenOffice, an extension that adds macro-writing ca...
Pity the poor home- or small-business owner who relied on SunRocket for phone service. As you've probably heard, the country's second-largest VoIP provider went belly-up this week, leaving 200,000-plus subscribers without service. I should know: I'm one of them. Never mind that SunRocket didn't b...
I've always been a bit confused by Windows Explorer, the stock Windows file manager. Microsoft all but buries the program in the OS, making it ridiculously difficult to find (hint: right-click Start and choose Explore). Plus, it's practically the same no-frills file manager it was 10 years ago, neve...
News junkies, rejoice! PressDisplay, a Web service that specializes in browser-formatted newspapers, now offers mobile reading on BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phones. I tested it on a Samsung BlackJack. You can choose from over 500 newspapers from around the world (the New York Times and Wall St...
Planning to meet up with friends and colleagues after work? Instead of relying on old standbys, branch out using MappyHour to find the best bars with the cheapest food and drink specials on a given day (via BoingBoing). It's a crowdsourced site, which means that there's a lot of local knowledge bein...
It's time to become a master of the one-liner. No, not jokes, but simple, to-the-point sentences, the kind that make for truly effective communication. So says Lifehack.org, which offers 8 of these useful bursts of verbal acuity. Here are a couple highlights: Susan, Susan Thompson. The repetit...
Businesses are flocking to Gmail in droves, and with good reason: It's arguably the best Web-based mail service on the planet. If you're one of the cool kids (i.e., a Gmail user), check out Lifehacker's list of the top 10 Gmail applications and add-ons. Many of them require Firefox (which certainly ...
As I've mentioned before, typical e-mail servers don't like large attachments. That's why I'm always on the lookout for Web services that work around the problem (see the aforementioned post for three examples). Driveway is one of many such services, but it beats out most of the others by supporting...
When you buy a new computer or TV from a big box store, they usually aren't making that much money off of that actual product. Where they do cash in, however, is by convincing you to buy tons of peripherals at incredibly high markups. (And don't even get me started on extended warranties--) Next t...
Do you wear the IT-chief hat in your organization? If so, check out TechRepublic's 10 tips on improving your management skills. For example: Don't do it for them If you move from an "in the trenches" IT worker to a management role, avoid the tendency to take the reins too quickly. Your knowledge ...
Drowning in e-mail, instant messages, RSS feeds, and other electronic communications? Web Worker Daily has a suggestion: limit yourself to once-a-day interaction with all these interruptive forces, thus freeing yourself to do actual work for the rest of the day. Author Leo Babauta offers eight ru...
"If only my phone would ring, I could get out of here!" How many times have you fidgeted your way through an endless meeting, cocktail party, or product demo thinking exactly that? If you're a Palm Treo user, FakeCall will do the trick. Just add a "fakecall" appointment to your calendar and the sof...
If you're a Sprint customer, but you want to switch providers to, say, AT&T (iPhone) or T-Mobile (HotSpot@Home), you may be able to get out of paying an early termination fee. That's because Sprint's raising the rate for roaming; if you pay for roaming in your plan, you can cite "materially ad...
