For a great number of years, Microsoft Office has been the de facto standard for office productivity software. If you wanted to type up a document, you’d use Microsoft Word. If you needed to produce a spreadsheet with charts, Excel was only way to go. Indeed, PowerPoint is widely recognized as the Kleenex of presentations. But did...

The one computer that you will always have close at hand is your smartphone. You might not always be sitting in front of your desktop computer and it’s hardly practical to keep your notebook open in your lap all the time either. Your smartphone keeps you connected and it can prove to be a tremendous business tool if you load up...

Microsoft introduced an incredibly dramatic change with Windows 8. While you could still access the more traditional desktop, the touch-optimized Start Screen with Live Tiles represented a dramatic departure away from what users have come to expect from the operating system. While you can still install regular Windows software that runs...

For people who have really never been, attending a trade show or convention sounds like it could be a lot of fun. You look at major events like CES, NAIAS, and E3 and you’re amazed by all the great stuff on display. However, if you’re attending a trade show for work, you’ll soon realize just how befuddling and how exhausting...

Despite being the powerful tools that they are, smartphones have something of a negative reputation with a lot of people. They’re seen as symbolic of our attention-deficit lifestyles due to people not being able to go five minutes without checking their phone for a missed call, a text, a tweet, or a Facebook message. And then there’s...

Many people use the Amazon Kindle family of devices for reading a wide range of e-books. That’s great, but you shouldn’t forget about the tons of Kindle apps that are also available to help to improve your productivity. This is particularly true of the Kindle Fire, since it’s more like an Android tablet than it’s...

Some people seem to believe that BlackBerry has the best business-oriented applications and the iPhone has the best “fun” applications. Why do you have to choose? If you happen to have a Google Android smartphone, you have access to an equally large assortment of mobile apps through the Android Market. While you can still...