TheJobBored

If you’re a lazy typer like me, then sometimes the spell checker is not your best friend.
Once, in a major college term paper situation, I meant to type “gentle” and instead typed “gentile.” This gave new meaning to the phrase I was typing: “gentle interrogation techniques.”
How many times have I meant to type “public” but […]

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I’ve got a more comprehensive organizational post in the works, but I’m in the middle of preparing my mobile office for a two week trip to Florida. I needed to bring my Firefox links with me on my laptop for blogging purposes. I didn’t know how to do it. But I figured it out.
So, I […]

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For those of you that hadn’t heard, some of the big news this week was that Gtalk, the Google chat application, in now inter-operable with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM, if you’re hip).
Gtalk is available as a standalone downloadable client, but it’s also built into the Gmail online client, as you’ve seen if you’ve logged into […]

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Dear reader:
Are you like me? Are you sticking with XP instead of upgrading to Vista? (I even quickly bought a new desktop from Dell this summer so I could still nab one with XP on it). Ain’t broke, not gonna fix it kind of thing, eh?
Excellent. My readers are good-looking and intelligent.
Now.
You know […]

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The announcement of Live Documents last week got a lot of press attention, mostly because this is a new initiative by the guy who started Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for $400 million.
But it also serves to highlight once again that Office is no longer the only game in town when it comes to […]

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How’s your instant messaging habit? Under control? Trying to quit? You can quit any time you want, but you just need to send this one more message… last time you swear?
Instant messaging can be a great productivity tool, and as we’ve discussed before, real-time communication is often the medium of choice for younger professionals. But […]

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The weblog ProductivityPortfolio has the answer to a question I’ve long wondered about: What is the difference between Hybernate and Stand By in Windows? And when should I use which?
Leaving your computer in a proper mode when you step away is not only a good way to save energy and money, it can be an […]

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