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Every week, I'm planning to dig up a site (or two) that features great gear for business people. I'll try to focus on sites that a) test the products they flog or b) offer great deals. I'll try not to get too caught up in fanboy promotions, and I'll try to stick to sites that offer...
A cup of coffee (or two) is an essential part of my morning routine. Besides keeping me awake, caffeine also does lots of other wonderful things: improve short-term memory; reduce post-workout soreness; and even make those morning meetings feel remarkably shorter [PDF]. In order to avoid drink...
One of the biggest headaches about Microsoft's new Vista OS is that the several different versions (among them: Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise) have such variable features. For example, the BitLocker Drive Encryption feature that's so perfect for protecting sens...
One of the biggest bummers of traveling with a laptop is trying to use the built-in trackpad and nub to navigate. Apart from my general difficulty dealing with the cramped design, I always end up inadvertently hitting the pad with my thumb while typing, thus moving the cursor to elsewhere in the d...
After PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak wrote a screed about the evils of using AutoReply, the folks over at LifeHacker set up a poll asking readers whether they used the feature when they were away on vacation or otherwise unable to answer email. Surprisingly, over a third claimed that th...
If you don't have access to a top-of-the-line scale and postage meter, sending snail-mail can be a real drag. (True confessions: I recently had an important package returned because I'd guessed the weight and underpaid the postage. The resulting fallout made me wish that SNL's Jiffy E...
The idea of Farecast.com used to work much better for me than the actual site. For the uninitiated, Farecast serves up the current lowest prices for specific flights and a prediction (complete with a percent confidence rating) about whether the current price will rise or fall in the future. (It also...
Even in hi-tech San Francisco, I spend roughly 2-3 hours of my work week without high speed internet access. (My provider, Comcast, has consistently crappy service, as evidenced by its recent third-to-last-place performance in a Harris Interactive poll of the reputations of major U.S. corporations...
One of the more frustrating things about collaborating with colleagues and customers on projects is that they often use different editing software than you do. This, in turn, can cause the documents, images, and presentations you're dealing with to get garbled in translation. Just because your...
Do you have a file you created on your desktop machine at work, which you want want to access later from your computer or at home, but which is too big to email to yourself? There's plenty of .zip and FTP software available, but many of them are complicated and/or require specific programs tha...
If you are planning to upgrade to Windows Vista, there's a lot to know about your new Operating System. Over the coming weeks, we'll have lots more info for you about how to take advantage of some of the cool features (and get rid of some of the annoying bugs) of Vista. But for now, here&#...
There are few things in life as satisfying as a good stapler. Just ask Milton of Office Space about his classic red Swingline. But most staplers take a lot of force to use, and they just aren't that good at dealing with large stacks of documents. The Paper Pro stapler gets rid of the punch...
Welcome to BNET's new Business Hacks blog. I'll be your tour guide through a world of tips and tricks to make your life at work more efficient, more productive, and more fun. I'm not going to be preaching to you about how to alter your mental outlook to better deal with the stress of...
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