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Start Standing Before You’re Laying Six Feet Under – Why You Need to Stand More (InfoGraphic)

Sitting down while you work isn't just a cause of back pain and poor posture, it can lead to all sorts of nasty diseases and changes in your body that lead to a...

How to Enable Missing Games in Windows 7 (Quick Tip)

If you are running running premium business editions of Windows 7 such as Windows 7 Professional or Enterprise, you might be missing the standard collection of ...

5 Reasons I’m Still Excited about Notebooks — And You Should be Too

The iPad 2 has arrived, and while I plan to pick one up, I'm still in love with notebooks, and frankly I think you should be too, or at least you will be after ...

How to Use Facebook At Work — And Look Like You’re Working Hard

Many people use Microsoft Outlook at work for their email, calendar and to-do list. Now, with the Microsoft Social Connector, they can also use it to connec...

Do Netbooks Help You Work Distraction Free?

Last week Farhad Manjoo wrote in the NY Times about the troubles of working on "the most distraction machines ever invented", providing links to many different tools to "tame" your digital distractions. Some of the biggest distractions users like myself face when connecting to the Internet to get work done are time-sucks like Hulu, Instant messaging, Twitter, Flickr, and any number of flash games. It seems that Farhad is right, this blasted notebook is the most distracting machine invented. While I find myself drawn to these time-wasters as soon as I sit down at work in the morning or drop in behind a widescreen monitor at home I noticed there's one place where I don't feel the same pull; on my netbook.