Business Hacks

by Rick Broida - August 11, 2011

Tired of all those AC adapters and that snakes' nest of cables for your mobile devices? This handy (but expensive) charging station lets you leave the adapters at home and keeps the cables tidy.

by Dave Johnson - August 11, 2011

Your office is probably a mish-mash of digital and print documents, stored in a myriad of places. Perhaps it's time to consolidate all of your stuff into a single format and single location.

by Dave Johnson - August 10, 2011

These days, if I don't place my iPhone in its docking cradle when I'm sitting at my desk, it probably won't make it through a single day on one charge.

by Dave Johnson - August 9, 2011

Get ready for several times the storage space that you get with our long-time favorite Dropbox, and you needn't do anything special like inviting friends to get it.

by Dave Johnson - August 8, 2011

Want to get to know your most-used program a little better? Here are 5 simple tips that can pay big dividends in helping you save a little time throughout the day.

by Rick Broida - August 5, 2011

New service Small Bizeo connects you with over 8,000 businesses that are for sale, then provides research, ratings, and even interviews with owners.

by Dave Johnson - August 5, 2011

If you are as OneNote-addicted as I am, then you might have nabbed a copy of OneNote for the iPhone when I told you about it earlier this year. But now it's even better.

by Rick Broida - August 4, 2011

HP's first tablet is absolutely fantastic -- or would be, if it ran a little faster and had more apps catering to business users. For the moment, it's all about unrealized potential.

by Dave Johnson - August 4, 2011

Posting all of your tweets in bursts is potentially annoying to your followers, and it reduces your brand awareness to clumps in time every day. There's a better way.

by Dave Johnson - August 4, 2011

Lithium Ion batteries tend to lose about 20% of their capacity each year. To forestall the day that you need to replace them, here are some tips for making laptop batteries last longer.

by Rick Broida - August 3, 2011

Don't let your mobile-unfriendly website cost you customers. Check out DudaMobile, a servie that will quickly and easily turn your existing site into a mobile one.

by Dave Johnson - August 3, 2011

What you say matters a lot. But if no one can get past your shoddy cut-and-paste job on slide #1, your words will be lost.

by Rick Broida - August 2, 2011

There's an interesting string attached to this money-saving storage service: you have to give up a chunk of space on your own hard drive. Worth it? All signs point to yes.

by Dave Johnson - August 2, 2011

Printer paper and toner add up -- as we've reported before, some estimate that corporations spend between 1% and 3% of their annual revenue on printing.

by Dave Johnson - August 1, 2011

Outlook 2010 has a superb Conversation View -- it groups email by "threads" so all the related messages stay together. Here's a tool that makes it work even better.

by Rick Broida - August 1, 2011

Help Scout gives businesses a shared email inbox for customer service and other collaborative needs. Find out what beloved cloud service CEO Nick Francis uses to share everything else.

by Dave Johnson - July 28, 2011

If your business has a back room filled with office supplies or computer gear that you plan to organize (someday), I've got a simple inventory management solution for you.

by Rick Broida - July 28, 2011

The new Google Page Speed Service promises to make your company's Web pages load up to 60 percent faster. Could it make your customers like you 60 percent more?

by Dave Johnson - July 27, 2011

Here's an innovative tool that lets you carry on group conversations outside of your email inbox, reducing clutter and letting you communicate more effectively.

by Rick Broida - July 27, 2011

Stop! That free Wi-Fi hotspot at the local coffee shop could let hackers intercept all kinds of sensitive data from your employees' laptops. Keep it safe with this free VPN.