Web workers save on the daily commute especially now with the high fuel cost. But there are times when we need to go out for meetings. I chanced upon RideSearch.com, a free nationwide carpool matching website, that helps carpoolers save money on gasoline and … Read More »
Does this sound like anyone you know? I’m not qualified for the work I’m doing. It’s only luck that I got this far in my profession without being found out. I’ve forgotten just about everything I learned in school about how to do this job. Other people … Read More »
For freelancing web workers, we sometimes get caught in the contract work aspect of our careers. Clients require your services, you provide, they pay. This cycle can get too comfortable that sometimes, you can’t imagine making money any other way. After … Read More »
ScreenSteps is a desktop application (available for both OS X and Windows) designed to make it easy to document processes that take place in a step-by-step fashion. After installing ScreenSteps, you can create a library of lessons; each lesson is … Read More »
The New York Times continues its love affair with the notion of coworking with last Friday’s Working Alone in a Group by Lisa Belkin.
Quickly realizing her home is not conducive to a productive working environment, Belkin experimented with coworking at Stamford CT’s
IBM’s Luis Suarez is the latest social networker to argue for reducing your dependence on email as a productivity tactic. Tired of spending hours a day on email, Suarez worked to stop the cycle of emails generating emails, reducing his … Read More »
There’s been a little groundswell of commentary recently about Quon v. Arch Wireless, a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that enhanced rights with respect to text messages, even when sent over your employer’s devices. But as Matthew Hirsch points out over at our … Read More »
The OAuth standard for cross-site authentication has been around for over a year now, without having really taken off. A pair of announcements this week indicates that the quiet period is over, though: both the Google Data APIs and MySpace’s Data Availability Project … Read More »
When it comes to browsers, most web workers rely on the usual suspects: Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera. There are many alternative browsers, though, and some of them are useful for targeted types of tasks. Here are six examples that I like. Read More »
Daylife is a news aggregation site that I find more useful than Google News for exploring the current hot news: it does a good job of finding top stories and it’s easy to hop from one related story to another, … Read More »
The last time I looked at OS X application Slife, as part of a roundup of automatic time-tracking tools, I wasn’t too impressed. The application seemed buggy and overpriced at the time. Fortunately, version 2.0 of Slife, released earlier … Read More »
We’ve written positively about Outlook add-in Xobni several times in the past. It’s ability to index and cross-reference the contents of large Outlook archives makes it a good fit for those trying to tame a busy online life. But … Read More »
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