A professor of business surveyed more than 9000 managers and workers and found a familiar paradox: Nearly everyone considers email checking and texting during face-to-face meetings rude, but most people still do it. She suggests more meeting breaks to fix the problem. More »
Windows: IrfanView has long been the small, efficient multi-tool for viewing and editing images on Windows systems. Its latest update adds to its surprisingly strong screenshot capture powers, along with updating a whole host of helpful image editing plug-ins. More »
A helpful reader noticed a new setting in Gmail that’s popped up since the Undo Send lab appeared in Gmail. You can now change your undo buffer period to five or 20 seconds from the default 10-second wait. More »
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Chrome: ExtensionFM puts a media player in the Google Chrome navigation bar that siphons up songs from sites you visit to build a personal playlist. More »
Facebook’s privacy settings are notoriously complex, and the results of changes are hard to see instantly. ReclaimPrivacy.org has a handy bookmarklet that shows which potentially insecure and privacy-invading settings are enabled on your Facebook account when you click it. More »
Office 2010 is about to hit the streets next month, so the Microsoft team has been busy upgrading some of its official (and free) PowerPoint add-ons. We’ve already seen pptPlex upgraded, and now Producer — an add-in that makes it easier to incorporate screencasts and video into PowerPoint decks — has seen a similar upgrade. More »
At the end of the day, the green shoots of recovery are often destroyed despite an outpouring of support by concerned residents. Those are some of the most commonly used cliches deployed by journalists, and phrases everyone should try to avoid. More »
The search box in Firefox is a handy tool for finding information, but if (like most of us), you’re using it to access Google, you may not get quite the results you expect. Here’s how to fix your Firefox for a more Australian emphasis. More »
The government is going to allow SBS to screen soccer World Cup matches on SBS Two before their broadcast on SBS One, thereby breaching “anti-siphoning” rules. It’s such a sensible decision it begs the question: why do those laws even exist? More »
