In my coaching practice, I am increasingly looking for ways to work with my clients on shared documents and projects online. Pretty simple right? You’d think so. I went to the first two places that I knew offered some or all of these services: Google & Microsoft. Big disappointment. Continue reading
November 12 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: collaboration, google, microsoft, online, online-app, software, virtual workspace, web-2.0 | 26 comments»
Outlook is a well-established presence on the business desktop, providing millions with their email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. It’s such an institution, in fact, that when Microsoft radically revamped the Office suite’s interface in 2007, it left Outlook largely unchanged.Although it’s big and sluggish, there’s no denying that Outlook does what it’s supposed to do. Not quickly or with style, but consistently and effectively nonetheless. The thing is, though, that… Continue reading
November 11 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: email, outlook, review, software, tool, xobni | 11 comments»
aNobii.com is a cataloging and social networking website for booklovers. On aNobii you can catalog your book collection on a beautiful wooden shelf and meet people with similar reading tastes. aNobii has an international following with information on over 10 million books, including 200,000 book reviews spanning 15 languages.aNobii has just released an iphone app, and we've had a chance to try it out. The bottom line: this is… Continue reading
October 29 2009 | By Leon | Tagged: app, barcode, book, iphone, organizatoin, scanner | 8 comments»
With new android phones just out and even more on the way, I thought it would be a good time to release another list of neat-o Android apps. My last Android post (part 1 and part 2) focused on apps specifically for increasing your productivity; this post includes all manner of apps. Some will help you be more productive, some will just help you have more fun.(Note… Continue reading
October 16 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: android, app, google, mobility, smartphone, software | 5 comments»
One of the more useful aspects of Twitter is the ability to quickly broadcast images, videos, and other media to your followers, making it an effective “mo-blogging” (mobile blogging) platform. Twitter doesn’t have this ability built in, though; sending pictures or video clips to Twitter requires using third-party services like TwitPic. Most Twitter clients will automatically upload images to these third-party hosts and add a link to your tweets… Continue reading
October 8 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: image, lifestreaming, online, Technology, twitter, video, web-2.0 | 8 comments»
In a recent post, I recommended Panda’s Cloud Antivirus as a decent free antivirus program. Others have recommended different programs, and that’s fine – in the end, I don’t think there’s much meaningful difference between the various antivirus programs, at least in terms of security.
Much more important than which antivirus program you use (or anti-spyware, or firewall, or any security software), or… Continue reading
July 30 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: behavior, computer, internet, online, security, virus | 41 comments»
It’s about that time for me again: my desktop is a couple years part its prime and my laptop just died (no display, no hard drive activity, no wifi, and a recent history of turning off suddenly for no good reason – those are all bad signs, right?), which means the near future holds a new PC for me. Which means a blank slate on which to… Continue reading
July 29 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: applications, computer, free-software, software, windows | 131 comments»
This post continues the list I started in Part 1, adding apps for managing contacts, collaborating, and accessing computer services from your Android phone (or, in the near future, other device). As before, I’m including links to the developers’ homepage when available, but all of these apps can be downloaded from the Google Market on your Android phone. And all are free (or were when I… Continue reading
July 21 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: android, app, google, mobility, smartphone, software | 5 comments»
With a raft of new devices scheduled to join the lonely T-Mobile G1 in Google’s lineup, the Android operating system looks like it’s not only going to be around for a while but may well give its fellows smartphones from Apple, Blackberry, and Palm a run for their money. With its Linux-derived core and slick user interface, the Android system is proving to be very adaptable – it will even… Continue reading
July 20 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: android, app, google, mobility, smartphone, software | 42 comments»
For most people, a wireless router is just a way to share your broadband Internet connection across the several computers and wifi-enabled devices in your house. Your router is not just a point of connection to your cable or DSL modem, though – it connects every other computer and device in your house in one big network. With not much work at all, you can easily take… Continue reading
July 17 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: file-sharing, home-network, ip-address, network, printer, router, server | 13 comments»
Although I am a professional writer and blogger, although I keep up with the latest tech trends, although I am, might I say, something of a geek, I do not iPod. I don’t even iPhone. This is not a political nor even a religious position, it is simply the Way That It Is.When Microsoft released the Zune, I scoffed. Until one day, I sauntered past the Zune display at… Continue reading
July 3 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: audiobook, hack, media-player, reading, zune | 12 comments»
Yesterday, I wrote about Linux distributions designed with kids’ needs in mind and some of the software for children that runs on Linux. Today I thought I’d share some of the other resources I came across while researching a likely candidate to install on my nephew’s and niece’s new PC.
June 30 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: children, computer, education, kid, linux, parenting, pc, student | 4 comments»
I recently took possession of a pair of older PCs – the natural consequence of nagging one’s older relatives to get something a little more “post-Columbian” – and of course my first instinct is to refurbish one as a Linux PC for my nephew and niece, ages 7 and 5. My nephew, especially, is computer-obsessed, and I figure that giving him a complete child-friendly, education-focused PC might encourage some more… Continue reading
June 29 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: children, computer, education, linux, parenting, pc, school, student | 13 comments»
Long-time readers of Lifehack know of my ongoing love affair with Adobe’s online word processor Buzzword, since last year part of the Acrobat.com suite of online applications. “Love affair” is not too strong a phrase, either – I like the interface and ease of use so much that I was inspired to write a book, Don’t Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at
June 16 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: acrobat.com, adobe, online-app, presentation, web2.0 | 5 comments»
Last week, I looked at the apps chosen by CNet for the productivity section of the Webware 100. There were, however, 10 other sections – 9 categories of apps voted for as top in their class and an extra categories of apps chosen by the editors at CNet. This week, I want to look at a selection of applications from the rest of the Webware 100… Continue reading
June 4 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: backup, image-editing, online, search, software, sync, twitter, web-app, webware-100 | 6 comments»
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