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It is amazing how fast CPU speed and harddisk space can advance in recent years. What's more "amazing" is perhaps we are still using the same keyboard and mouse as we did 15 years ago. Our computer input paradigm hasn't changed much, still the same old routine: typing - mouse-click - interrupts due to flow of thought - typing again.Here we review 5 inventions and technologies that could one day make it easier for us to work with computers and be able to match with the productivity of typing on a keyboard: Software aided typing, DVORAK keyboard, ergonomic input devices, speech recognition technology and multi-touch technology. We introduce each, analyze the pros and cons behind and try to find out which one of them could turn into a consumer product in near future.
We made a tiny but nifty program originally intended for productive use, but then we discovered the other side of it. It can be used to simplify tasks as well as to escape from stagnant office policy :)
Requirements: 1. Windows XP, Vista, 7 2. No need installation. 3. Unzip to a folder and run.
For: 2. "Unproductive use" :)
Use: DOWNLOAD Boss Key program
The above monitors are really impressive and nice looking, but fear not, you won’t need to spend a fortune or to buy that kind of devices to make a proper multi-screen system. If you got a GPU with two or more connectors you can use more than one screen at the same time and it will boost your speed when writing. Charting in Microsoft Excel could become a time-consuming task especially when there is a lot of data. Adding, deleting, modifying data series or fomatting charts could keep you busy for hours. If working with Excel is your daily routine task, to save you some time, you might want to pick up the following tips about how to do certain things in Excel without opening or going through the charting dialogs.To illustrate, we use X Y (Scatter) chart to plot our sales data on Microsoft Excel 2007. Most of the tips are also applicable to other chart types or on other versions of Microsoft Excel. We suppose you already know the basics of charting.
There are many guides out there about how to enhance your internet experience on Firefox: tweak Firefox for speed and performance, learn to use keyboard shortcuts, use "bookmarklets", install Firefox addons and pugins, etc. But here we focus on the basics first. We reveal 7 basic tips to help you speed up your internet surfing, that may prove useful to you regardless of how you use the web and how internet savvy you are. If you use internet for your work, do stuff like online publishing, blogging and internet marketing, these tips will certainly increase your productivity if you are yet to use them.
Windows 7 created a media frenzy with everyone waiting for so far (probably) the best designed Windows OS to ship. Most people see that it could deliver and save Microsoft some face from the Vista woe. Windows 7 carries a price tag, so we are here to help you judge whether the new features introduced in 7 are useful or not. If you look forward to upgrade to improve your work, check this article out to see if Windows 7 offers any productivity enhancement.
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