Smartlife

Two years ago, we took a look at Shoeboxed.com. In short, you’re able to outsource your receipt management to this company — it scans, categorizes, and organizes your receipts for your online management. The receipts are then be securely shredded and discarded.

From your end, all you had to do was stuff all of your business receipts (and personal receipts, for that matter) into a prepaid envelope and Shoeboxed.com would take care of the rest. In addition to paper receipts, you can also send receipts via…

The conference room is an instant oil-check for any company: if it’s where things get done, well done…but if it’s a pit of endless PowerPoint despair, there may be room for improvement. By shooting anyone who goes over time, for instance. Unfortunately, we can’t advise such violent courses of action (unless we disclaim it immediately afterwards), but we can offer some entertaining options to upgrade the battlefield. And that doesn’t mean installing better games on your Blackberry — that’s hiding from the problem instead of dealing with it, and Enron…

If you haven’t heard of macros, you’re misusing this computer — you’re doing far more work than you have to for no reason at all. Sort of like putting your friends on the roof of your car and pushing them places. The fact is: if you do anything more than twice, the computer should be doing it for you. That’s what computers are for! You don’t need to know how to script your XML-interrupts to do it — “macros” are simple commands where you can show the computer what to do and…