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Promotional stunts just got a bit more valuable thanks to online video. Actors Brian Baumgartner and Angela Kinsey, who play characters Kevin Malone and Angela Martin on NBC’s “The Office,” dropped by the real Scranton, Pa., where the fictional comedy is set to promote the show […] Read more »

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Why will e-book readers succeed? Not because e-books are good replacements for paper books — but because they’re good complements to paper books and documents, especially for work-related reading rather than pure pleasure. Time and again we see that technology doesn’t have to mean an end […] Read more »

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Thursday will mark a red-letter day for Apple: For the first time its stock will rise above $100 a share, a tenfold increase in a little more than three years. Think about that: If Google had risen that much since its IPO, it would be trading […] Read more »

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Short of being a network geek, you probably haven’t ever considered toying with the DNS settings in yout Network Preference Pane. But OpenDNS has given everyone a reason to take another look. DNS stands for Domain Name System, and it’s employed all over our beloved Internets. […] Read more »

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The no más moment — Brian Oberkirch describes the steps he’s taking to build a moat around his attention castle. Here’s a good one: “making a micro to do list of 3 to 5 things. Index card or sticky note for the day.” You don’t have […] Read more »

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The Design and Web editions of Creative Suite 3 (both Standard and Premium) are now available from Adobe. The applications that make up those editions are also available individually and include: Photoshop CS3 Photoshop CS3 Extended InDesign CS3 Illustrator CS3 Flash CS3 Professional Dreamweaver CS3 Fireworks […] Read more »

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There are many kinds of web workers: neo-Bedouins, telecommuters, freelancers, startup entrepreneurs, and yes, even corporate employees working in a cubicle or an office. We don’t define web workers by their employment status or their place of work, but rather by how they use the Web […] Read more »

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Remember when it was okay to waste time online without being social? Remember what it was like before the web started paying the bills? When you’re stressed, a complete disconnect from work and the world for a short amount of time can recharge your batteries and […] Read more »

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SanDisk has launched a Wi-Fi-enabled MP3 player, Sansa Connect, and a central player in its creation is Zing, a company co-founded by former Apple executive Tim Bucher. Using built-in Wi-Fi, the Sansa Connect can stream Internet radio from Launchcast stations, browse Flickr photo streams, and download […] Read more »

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By Narendra Rocherolle CTRL (or Apple) A and then delete! Just kidding. Are you drowning in email? Is your inbox a source of constant low level stress? Over the last year, David Allen’s GTD has completely changed my work habits and I am now a happier, […] Read more »

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So you splurged for a new Blackberry 8800 and you’re on a four-day workweek at 10 hours a day. You’re not going to have just one case to protect your baby are you; why not a different leather case for every day? Sena Cases can fit […] Read more »

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If you don’t work in a cubicle, remind yourself how thankful you are with this review of The Cubicle Survival Guide. If you do work in one, get some tips for dealing with the office lamprey, cubicle cooties, and fabric-covered half-walls. Looking for a middle ground […] Read more »

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Now you can read your paper mail online with RemoteControlMail. RemoteControlMail is an online service that was launched last year in Portland and is expanding to 18 additional cities. The service receives and scans all of your postal mail for you then provides it in an […] Read more »

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A News Corp and NBC Universal joint venture to distribute TV shows and movies online could be announced as soon as Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times, following on a similar report from paidContent earlier this week. The site would include premium video and “clips […] Read more »

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The Filter, an ‘instant playlist generator plugin for iTunes’, just launched today. This little plugin, backed by Peter Gabriel, is a great way to build playlists of music on the fly. You can create playlists in a number of ways, but what seems the most intuitive […] Read more »

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As modern poet and child-care expert Chris Rock once noted, fathers have just one important job: You gotta keep your daughter off the pole. Failing that, keep her off the pole on the Internet. Failing that: Therapy bills. So it’s with a bemused “sorry daddy” that […] Read more »

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While you might get the impression that St. Patrick was the patron saint of violent, homophobic alcoholics, based on the antics at parades from Boston to Chicago, in fact he was a voice for peace who proclaimed in an anti-war Letter to Coroticus, “A murderer cannot […] Read more »

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Blackberry is selling its popular Pearl smartphone in red and Sony introduced its W660i Walkman music phone this week, available in rose red or the more staid black. Those are some nice-looking phones — but color’s not usually the main thing that matters in a phone. […] Read more »

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If only picking a smartphone OS were as easy as picking a desktop platform. For many, deciding what to stick on your desktop or carry around on your shoulder is a bit of a religious experience. Your mind is made up, practically from birth. If you […] Read more »

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It’s hard to watch internet TV for any long stretch of time, and no, that’s not because it all sucks. Finding content that matches your tastes requires searches, clicks, and lots of refinement — not exactly a “lean back” experience. Divvio, a new project from former […] Read more »

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Want to fill up your iPod with just a few clicks from the iTunes Music Store? Apple has made the process very easy to do, by offering some massive music compilations at reduced prices, far below the standard $.99 a song. The most famous of these […] Read more »

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Windows Media Player and iTunes are duking it out with incompatible DRM, trying to leverage their respective dominance in operating systems and media devices. Like Sauron, Gates and Jobs are trying to forge the one media player to rule them all. In the meantime, could a […] Read more »

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Leo at Zen Habits has published a series of productivity hacks including number 8: “Simplify your information streams, and plow through feeds and email.” Here’s how he puts this into practice in his feed reading: Reading my blogs is a good example: I use Google Reader, […] Read more »

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Just when you get jaded, along comes something you should have known about for months but is totally news to you. Like Zattoo, a P2P television company currently in testing in Switzerland, which streams live channels using peer-to-peer packet sharing. Zattoo, dually based in Zurich and […] Read more »

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CBS, the longtime exclusive broadcaster of the NCAA hoops tournament, said it will be nearly doubling the number of simultaneous supported online video streams this year to 300,000 at any given moment. The streams will be free, first-come-first-serve, and purportedly of higher quality than last year. […] Read more »

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I envy guys in tech: it seems so easy for them to choose a laptop bag. Though they have to tackle the weighty issues of nylon versus leather and budget versus prestige, they know if they pick a black across-the-body style they’ll fit in with the […] Read more »

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News Corp is pooling its efforts to show FOX television programming on more than 200 broadcast affiliate web sites, according to a press release sent to us by Fox Interactive Media. In general, local stations have been less than happy with networks selling programs on demand […] Read more »

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House Republicans recently complained in a press release that Nancy Pelosi was infringing on copyrights by posting video material from C-Span on The Gavel, the Speaker of the House’s web site. Turns out that all but one of the clips was actually public domain footage, and […] Read more »

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This may be the most obscure comment you’ll read in speculation leading up to the iPhone’s release, but I thought of this when testing out phones before picking my Treo 650, as well as the issues that my Mom is having with her dated Motorola StarTac […] Read more »

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While Castfire isn’t exactly a household name, even among techies, the startup has been around for two years and provides audio content management software for a number of clients. In November, they signed a deal with C/Net to provide the software necessary to manage C/Net’s long […] Read more »

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Diversion Media, publisher of broadband channels, announced the launch of Snowision, a video site for the snowboarding community. Snowvision marks the second niche video site from Diversion, a New York-based company founded by Nicholas Butterworth, former CEO of MTV Interactive Group, and Tatum Lade, former head […] Read more »

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March Madness is much more than a some spring college tournament. It is the nail biting, single elimination tour de force that, by months end, has crowned the NCAA’s top team. The winning squad has to out perform 63 of the nation’s other top performers.

While the action on the court is intense it pales in comparison to the drama, the tension, and the heartache of the office pools that accompany it. These coworker competitions, often for money, bring out everyone’s inner Nostradamus. Luckily, trying to guess what will happen from the 9.22 quintillion possible outcomes puts the sport neophyte in accounting on equal footing with with ESPN junkie in sales. But if you’re a web worker without an office what madness does March contain for you? Read more »

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Popular social network Facebook is adding video uploads in very limited fashion, asking users to submit their own clips on topics like “who am I?” “heartbreak,” and “life during wartime” to be compiled into a television show. The company is formally announcing the project tomorrow, but […] Read more »

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Ok, so Apple Corps (the Beatles’ Music company) and Apple Inc have worked things out and no lawsuits remain on that subject. After Steve demo’d the iPhone with some Beatles music in last month’s Keynote, I would have expected the Beatles collection to be popping up […] Read more »

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“Copyright infringement is still a theft. A crime. A felony. Plain and simple.” – Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, Aug. 22, 2006 Given Sumner Redstone’s recent opinion on unauthorized Internet video-sharing, Friday’s call from Viacom for YouTube to take down 100,000 video clips was probably inevitable. What […] Read more »

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For me, the best part about being a web worker is that I can listen (and watch) podcasts and videos on my second display as background noise while I get work done and no one complains. While it’s easy to have hundreds of feeds in a […] Read more »

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A lingering question since Google’s acquisition of YouTube has been what the parent company will do with its own video product, which it effectively announced was not good enough back in October. Three months later, we are seeing the first integration. Google writes today on its […] Read more »

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Everyone inside the United States is crazy jazzed about the forthcoming (4 months and 13 days till June) Apple iPhone. Those outside the States are less than excited, because what do they get?? Well in February most of the rest of the world will be getting […] Read more »

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Yesterday we took note of an early report from Variety about Netflix’s digital addition to its DVD rental business. Now that all the major news outlets have taken their turn, we’ve learned a few more details about the cost and logistics of the new “Watch Now” […] Read more »

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Yesterday, Techcrunch reported on Conduit, a customizable toolbar engine. A search of Mozilla’s Extension site for Firefox add-ons with the word “toolbar” returns 439 choices! That’s a lot of little icons competiting for space on your browser window. Is your browser interface clean and minimal, or […] Read more »

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