Apps to make travel easier
Here are PCMag.com’s top 5 free travel apps to make travel smoother (available on any smartphone with a data plan):
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Top picks for building a web site
As the most popular blogging software, WordPress has matured to become a bona fide solution for businesses that need a blog or even a web site with updatable content. It’s free, capable of search engine optimization and easy to update. Here are five other blogging software options:
If you must tweet, be smart about it
Not everyone in the workplace needs to be on Twitter—indeed, some workplaces have deemed the social-media tool verboten. But the free messaging tool, used strategically, can be helpful for keeping tabs on your industry.
1-Minute Strategies: June ’10
Save up to $250 by shipping your luggage via a carrier rather than checking it at the airport … Focus on the most important 10% of words you speak or write, to make them more memorable … Track your company’s competition with WatchThatPage.com, a free tool that monitors specific web pages.
Your online image
It pays to build a positive online “brand.” Example: 77% of recruiters are using Google to pre-screen job candidates, says a 2006 ExecuNet survey. So resist the temptation to post negative comments on blogs.
Travel toolbox: 7 sites to bookmark
Here are seven sites that every globe-trotter (or her assistant) should bookmark, according to Travel + Leisure: HopStop.com, OANDA.com, TheBathroomDiaries.com, Travel.State.Gov, Travelersnet.com, Urbanrail.net and World-airport-codes.com.
Click before you fly
Before planning air travel, check these web sites: kayak.com, bing.com/travel, orbitz.com, flightaware.com and ifly.com.
Cracking the password code
Can you guess what the most common online password is? Actually, you probably could guess. Internet-security firm Imperva recently reported that 123456 is the most common password. Second-most common is 12345, followed by 123456789. And the fourth most common password is “password.”
Where does all the time go?
According to a 2007 survey from Salary.com, Americans waste about 20% of their time at work. And a chunk of that wasted time comes from surfing the Internet. One journalist writer, in a quest to find out where her time was going, tried out four online services that track productivity. Here’s what she learned from that experience.
Are you underusing your mouse?
If you’re ignoring the middle button (or scroll wheel) on your mouse, you’re missing some shortcuts and only using your mouse to 70% capacity. Odds are, you get around documents and web sites just fine without using it, but, as Rick Broida points out in PC World magazine, there’s a world of potential in that little button.