Smart productivity for busy people
If your business involves any kind of travel whatsoever, you need a good travel app.
There are plenty to choose from, but the best ones usually cost a buck or three.
Kayak Pro for iOS, for example, normally sells for 99 cents, but for a limited time you can grab it free of charge. (Just click the blue Get It button and you'll land at the iTunes download page. Or you can download it directly on your iPhone or iPad.)
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Suppose corporate needs your bank's routing and account numbers to get you set up for direct deposits. Or the IT department needs your password to upgrade or modify your account.
That's not the kind of information you typically want to share via email. Or instant message. Or even fax. Ideally, it's the kind of thing you'd write on a sticky note and hand directly to the person who needs it.
Of course, that's not always an option, meaning you need some kind of safe, electronic way to transmit sensitive information.
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Yawn, right? After all, what could Outlook.com possibly bring to the table that Gmail doesn't already have -- or do better?
As it turns out, quite a bit. I've spent the last several days test-driving the new service, and while it's far from perfect, Outlook.com actually offers a number of features that could lure business users away from Gmail.
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What's the best way to communicate with your boss? Open, honest, face-to-face conversation, of course.
That would seem to fly in the face of Tell Your Boss Anything, a Web site designed expressly for sending anonymous messages. But it's not really about giving ol' Scrooge a piece of your mind; rather, the site appears to have constructive motives.
To get started, you enter your own "trusted" email address (more on that in a bit), then your boss' address. Next, you create a subject line by filling in the blanks: "I feel ____ about ____."
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The smartest folks I know are the ones who have bookshelves stacked with reference guides. Knowledge is power, and all that.
Of course, now that e-books are overtaking their print counterparts, it's getting harder to judge a businessperson or IT admin by his/her covers (so to speak).
Maybe the bookshelf is empty, but the Kindle/Nook/iPad/etc. might be loaded with tomes.
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Last week you learned three ways to make Outlook easier to live with, and before that, Gmail. Now let's turn our attention to the world's most popular word processor: Microsoft Word.
I'll admit that I'm pretty fond of Word. It's been my primary word processor ever since I reluctantly relinquished WordPerfect -- for DOS. I've even come to appreciate the Ribbon interface that debuted in Word 2007, though it can be a difficult transition to make.
With issues like that in mind, I've compiled this list of three tips that can make Microsoft Word a little easier on the brain.
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Recently I've made peace with the program, as uninstalling and then reinstalling it (along with the rest of Microsoft Office 2010) solved a few of my more niggling issues.
Thus, having offered up three ways to make Gmail easier to live with, I now present my favorite tips for enhancing the Outlook experience.
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