Apparently, Gmail’s built-in ‘View as HTML’ functionality, which allows you to view the content of PDF files (and other types of documents) as if they were classic webpages, works regardless of the files’ usage restrictions (i.e., the functionality doesn’t respect Digital Rights Management). More… Via Boingboing UPDATE: Gmail has terminated this functionality....
[Continue Reading]Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit
You may like Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit. I have already reset my browser home page to the page mentioned in the excerpt below: One major behavior that triggers a work interruption is “going online.” The Internet is a vast repository of Time Wasters, and if you’re like me, the activity that...
[Continue Reading]Globe-trotting phones – CNET reviews
from CNET’s mailing list (via James Fahey)…. I don’t consider myself a jet-setter, but I do travel. And when I’m on the road, I need to keep in touch with work, not to mention my family and friends. So nothing frustrates me more than lack of cell phone service. That’s why I need to get...
[Continue Reading]Great new desktop/web search tool, which costs you nothing
From my coauthor Scott Allen:In doing some research about desktop search for the chapter in our book about organizing your files and email, I came across HotBot Desktop, a tool so incredibly handy and powerful that it might make me be willing to switch back to Internet Explorer and give up Google as my favorite...
[Continue Reading]Tools to manage small project teams
All of life is one big To Do list. I personally spend most of my time managing project teams for the various projects that I am responsible for. I have been looking for some time for a more efficient way to track the progress of my teammates. I have used Microsoft Project in the past,...
[Continue Reading]Real-time Web Translation
T-Mail is offering Real-time E-mail Machine Translation. Just type in a URL of a site in French (or many other languages), and you can start surfing it. Slick....
[Continue Reading]Remove Embarrassing Hidden Data in Office 2003/XP
You’d think the people who make Microsoft Word understand enough about the program to avoid embarrassing themselves with unintended disclosures of internal information. You’d be wrong. See http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8337388.htm. At http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144E54ED-D43E-42CA-BC7B-5446D34E5360&displaylang=en you can download a tool that will delete all the potentially embarrassing data in your Word/Excel/etc. files....
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