Launching programs by scrubbing through the Start menu -> Programs submenu, or navigating a folder hierarchy, is often time-consuming and error prone.
I installed the free Colibri, available from (http://colibri.leetspeak.org/), on Windows, and Quicksilver, available from (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/), on Mac OS X.
Now launching any application is as fast as hitting control-space and typing a few characters. Colibri […]

Tough to integrate softwares to create simple business graphics such as timelines, flow charts, etc.
Purchased SmartDraw and learned how to use it.
Creating graphics is a snap and the output is highly integrable to MS Office products.
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My colleague Andrew (in a non-profit I’m a part of) had a major document to distribute that was just over five pages in length.
Andrew modified a couple of margins and edited some non-essential words out of the text which shortened the document to 4 pages.
He thus printed it on 2 sheets of paper, […]

I didn’t do this improvement…my son just discovered it and sent the link to me.
We have a problem of energy usage; specifically, the power utilized by millions of computer monitors every day.
Some folks put up a site blackle.com . It uses the Google search engine and puts it on an all-black background. […]

I forget to check in on great websites like this. When I do check in, I can’t remember what I’ve already read.
I began subscribing to this website (and others like the Lean Blog) via RSS.
Now, any time these websites are updated, the updates come in to a special folder in my Outlook […]

I observed a shelf label which had very similar looking, but different, containers on the shelf above and below it. It was not clear which containers the label was referring to.
I found the supervisor of the area and asked her which was which. She explained. We then took a marker and […]