Repetitive stress injuries (RSI) plague our workplaces. Risks of getting RSI can be from poor office ergonomics or just plain poor work habits. While we can’t always demand for ergonomic office furniture, we can adjust our work habits to gear towards RSI prevention. Here are 5 quick reminders for you to avoid getting repetitive stress [...]

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Text messaging (or SMS) is a great way to keep in touch and it has probably redefined the way personal communication is done. However, with this rapid change, text etiquette hasn’t really been established. Politeness is still an important thing to show even in text messaging. Here are some tips on how to text politely.

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We’ve been in this situation at one or more points in our dining existence. Not all restaurants are guaranteed to live up to reputations or have one at all. We may not always get what we want right off the bat. It may be the cold soup (or a fly in the soup!) or the [...]

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This seems pretty straightforward but sometimes, it’s that straightforward functionality that you need. By default, Firefox does rich text copying, meaning that when you copy text from the browser, you also copy the text formatting. This can be pretty useful when copy a text from a page to a word processor like Word. However, for [...]

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With all the digital wizardry available for thieves and crooks to use, it’s hard to keep your money safe, especially with your alternatives to personal banking like using ATMs, credit cards, even mobile banking. But what gives thieves instant access to your bank account readily once they pick your pocket would be you bank cards [...]

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Here’s another PDF viewer that promises an alternative to the ever-bloated Adobe Reader. We’ve already featured a great alternative in Foxit Reader but this one you might find more interesting with its more advanced features like comments and annotations which were previously found not in Reader but in the paid and expensive Acrobat Professional. Here’s [...]

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If you’re a PB&J fan or simply a peanut butter fan, then you might want to pay attention to this news. CNN reports that there are now 628 cases of salmonella illness reported in 47 states all related to bad peanut butter. The outbreak that started back in February has now risen to 628, a [...]

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I’ve been writing a good deal about different approaches to the work environment in order to increase work productivity and often referred to how working at home or having control over time has an effect on worker morale and productivity. Yesterday, the NY Times had this great article on approaches to work hours entitled, Time [...]

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There have been plenty of sitcoms featuring couples bickering over paint jobs at home. Usually they end up wrestling over buckets of paint for a whole messy finale. But seriously, picking colors for your home isn’t just about who likes what. If you end up not getting to decide because of preferences, then try deciding [...]

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Commonly found in retail and food establishments, the suggestion box is one of the most underused and underrated relationship building devices and all it takes is a pencil, a pad of paper and a small drop box.

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Web Worker Daily posted this very insightful article on the 20-Hour Work Week of the Future. Many have really shifted to be freelancers especially with work-at-home jobs getting more and more lucrative and quite easy with the Internet. The article cites a Gartner research. As IT becomes woven into the fabric of people’s lives and [...]

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It’s been a week of launches from our friends from Google. Let’s see what they’ve been doing for the past few days – Street View for Google Maps, Google Gears, and with Gears, they also launched the Google Mashup Editor. By the sound of it, it is going to be Google’s match for Yahoo! Pipes. [...]

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This tweak is for those sites that still force your browser to open a new window. That behavior is too IE for my taste. In any case, you can always set Firefox to open these links in a new tab. It’s pretty easy to do from the interface, just click Tools -> Options -> Tabs [...]

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StumbleUpon changed my computing life. It lessened my time looking for relevant sites and reduced my battle with Google and search keywords. And this news will probably affect all that. StumbleUpon has just recently been acquired by eBay for $75M. As far as the news goes, there really isn’t a concrete picture of what one [...]

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Hot off the news and into your computer. Google just made available Google Gears (BETA). It’s “an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.” These include: Store and serve application resources locally Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness [...]

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