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Traveling abroad? Do I have the shirt for you. All you do is point to one of the universally recognizable symbols (phone, restroom, airport, etc.), then point at the question mark, and that should be enough for a native to figure out what you're after. Okay, so this isn't exactly business casual -- ...
Between now and August 31, owners of the Motorola Motorizr Z8 phone can download a free copy of DataViz's Documents To Go. The software enables you to open and view Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files and attachments on your phone. It normally sells for $19.99; all you have to do to get it free is reg...
"When nature calls, call Miz Pee." That's the tagline I just made up for this poorly named but undeniably useful service, which helps you find the closest (and cleanest) bathroom. Just point your mobile phone's browser to www.mizpee.com, click Find Toilet, and then input your city and street addr...
Running a non-profit? If so, you can get in on the same great deal offered to schools: free Google Apps. In case you're unfamiliar with it, Google Apps consists of various Google services, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Page Creator, all managed under a single Web-based control p...
Microsoft just took the wraps off version 2 of Windows Live Search for Mobile, the whiz-bang search app for cell phones. In case you're unfamiliar with it, WLS taps Windows Live Local to provide area-specific searches. Just choose your location (by providing a city name, ZIP code, etc.), then acce...
If you liked last month's post on using wikis at work but wished for more than five paltry suggestions, Web Worker Daily offers up 15 of them, all of them devoted to productivity. For example: Project management. A wiki can be a great way to plan and manage a project, from conception to completion....
How do you survive a poorly run meeting? How do you explain your ideas in thirty seconds? Guy Kawasaki—Apple evangelist—tells you in tiny snippets what you need to be able to do in the office environment and how to do it in a recent blog post on his site, How to Change the World. (Skip p...
If you're a Google Calendar user (and by all rights you should be), here's an easy way to add new appointments when you're away from your PC: Send a text message from your phone. All you do is create an outgoing SMS with details about the event, such as "Lunch with Tom at 12:30 pm Wednesday." Sen...
Looking for an online contact manager? Start with Big Contacts, which I wrote about a while back. True to its name, it's an impressively "big" service. Web Worker Daily has the scoop on five others, including Highrise, Plaxo, and still-in-development Oprius: This webapp actually aims to be an all-i...
Viewbook (formerly Slidez) lets you create photo slideshows to share with others or embed in your site -- perfect for photographers, designers, and anyone else with images to show off. I found the site very easy to use: Just upload your photos using the provided batch-loader tool, then build a ne...
I was reading the great blog Internet Duct Tape the other day, and came across this statement: "One of the handiest 'life hacks' is to figure out how much money your time is worth (after taxes) and use that to as a basis for deciding if a time saving service is worth its cost (assuming you have di...
Want your home page to be all that it can be? If you use iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage), there are lots of ways to turn it into a productivity powerhouse. For starters, try creating a new tab called "productivity." Google will automatically serve up such useful gadgets as Driving...
Call it answering-machine angst: It's that feeling you get when you're leaving someone a message and suddenly realize you're babbling, tripping over your words, or just generally not making sense. Of course, this realization usually makes matters worse as you struggle to recover (Jon Favreau capture...
Any smartphone worth its salt should double as mobile storage, able to ferry files between PCs or house on-the-fly backups. Alas, the iPhone lacks that simple capability -- or did, until the release of iPhoneDrive. This $9.95 utility enables you to drag and drop files between your precious and your ...
When I come across websites that contain important information for whatever I'm working on at the time, I'll often bookmark the pages or sometimes just leave them open for later. Often, though, by the time I'm ready to return to them, I've lost my train of thought or can't find exactly what I'm look...
