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Webster's Dictionary defines a scam as "a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation." And that's it. There are no secondary definitions. It's pretty simple, really: Someone is trying to bamboozle you. We all know them: The e-mails that come to you promising
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As I merrily go about my daily life working in Office and administering advice about what I've learned, I often come across little nuggets of gold disguised as tips and tricks. These treasures make my life in front of the computer more efficient and less
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Ever wish you could actually hear the Crabby Office Lady? Envelope yourself in her dulcet tones while receiving the communion of her tips and tricks? Of course you have – who hasn’t? Well, you’re in luck: Every week Crabby records and publishes a 2-minute
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John Moe, an NPR host, author and Twitterer, takes us through the history of Twitter. All 13.5 billion years of it. Read the full article, "Twitter headlines through history ." A sample below: Early Prehistoric Animals Crawled out of sea on to "land",
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Should you share your technical expertise, goals, or accomplishments at work? Yes! Share a caricature of your boss or love letter from an office romance, however, and you might soon need to share your resume. Here are some tips for avoiding such career-limiting
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Nothing could be less newsworthy than standard fonts in Outlook and Word, right? Wrong. Sean Fallon on Gizmodo: The Gadget Blog, reports that the Microsoft font Calibri, introduced in 2007 and used as the default font in Outlook, helped uncover a strange
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You know those "top 25 random things about you" lists that are going around on Facebook (and elsewhere)? I've received a few too many in the past few days. My colleague David Salaguinto must have been looking over my shoulder this weekend because his
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There’s the “official line” (green means available) but here’s my take on working with those fuzzy green, yellow and red icons you find with Messenger, Communicator, and other Internet messaging and social tools. –DougThomas Office Casual: What IM status
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You betcha this is work-related. See if you can apply this logic next time you're YAWN bored to tears in a meeting: YAWNing could be considered a compliment, because it's a sign that your brain has YAWN overheated and is trying to cool back down to a
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According to this post on MSN, LEFTIES ARE SMARTER. As a lefty old enough to have endured school desks designed for right-handers only, weird looks, impossible scissors, hints at sinister tendencies, penmanship lessons from Hell, and suggestions that
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With the mixed bag of brilliant innovations and petty annoyances that come with modern life, getting organized is a perennial challenge. Some folks are naturally brilliant at it but I suspect they're all either engineers or parents with multiple kids
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Ever clicked "reply all" and then completely panicked? Inadvertently emailed your boss a blue streak about...your boss? Sent something a little too personal to the wrong person, or more likely 100 of them? Check out this video from videojug.com about
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Not to be outdone by the Japanese creators of karaoke, German beer hall denizens have created a new variety of pub sport featuring everyone’s favorite “persuasion software.” In PowerPoint karaoke (as it has come to be known), inebriated volunteers deliver
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Sorry about that. I could have swapped chairs or fetched a donut for you. If you are on Facebook, you probably have been Poked or SuperPoked, perhaps you've thrown a sheep or an Obama. Just one of the those little ditties you can do, a little bit different
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