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How To Make An Office Dartboard That Won’t Destroy The Walls

2:26AM December 20, 2011 | Brent Rose

Darts are awesome, but they’re tricky to set up at work. Real darts aren’t super safe and leave walls full of holes, and safety darts suck hard. Mark Rober has got a solution that’s simple, elegant, and awesome. More »


News

WebOS Stalling And Other Stories We Didn’t Post

5:30AM December 1, 2011 | Brian Barrett

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. More »


Software

Microsoft Office Is Apparently Coming To The iPad

8:43AM November 30, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Getting excited about MS Office feels a little bit like racing home to do your taxes, but getting the full Office suite on the iPad — which The Daily reports is happening — would make a lot of sense. More »


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Mini Weapons Of Mass Destruction 2 Provides More Ideas For Office Mayhem

4:30PM November 6, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

Not only is it one of my favourite books, but John Austin’s Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction also makes a great gift for kids or adults who refuse to grow up. And since I fall into that latter category, I’m pretty excited to see he’s now got a sequel that lets you re-appropriate your office supplies into 30 new spy weapons and surveillance tools. More »


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This Chart Perfectly Describes Your Workplace Computing

12:06AM March 5, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Your keyboard really does get way more love when your boss is zeroing in. Except I think this does miss the frantic clicking as you try to find something, anything, that might look appropriate on your desktop. [The Doghouse Diaries]


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Take A Tour Through Google’s Sydney Office

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10:59AM February 11, 2011 | Nick Broughall

I’ve been inside Google’s Pyrmont offices in Sydney a couple of times, and was suitably envious of their staff for having such a large, well designed, creative work atmosphere. But I didn’t see anywhere near the amount of stuff they showed Gus over at Lifehacker. More »


Turn Your Office Chair Into An Office Bed In Seconds

4:20PM December 7, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

If every office chair converted into a narrow bed-like furniture item like this, I’d be in heaven—there’d finally be an excuse for all those accidental office naps. More »


Transparent Hole Punch Makes Too Much Sense For This Cruel World

1:40AM October 30, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Why was it, back in the late 1990s when I was hole-punching things on a regular basis, that the single-hole punch I used looked like some medieval torture device? Why couldn’t it have been pretty and ergonomic and see-through? More »


Repurpose A Shoe Organiser For Compartmentalised Cable Storage

8:34AM October 20, 2010 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Keep cables organised, especially those that you use just enough that putting them in deep storage at the back of the closet isn’t practical, is a challenge. Repurpose an over-the-door shoe organiser for easy but out of sight cable organisation. More »


Software

Office For Mac 2011 Arriving October 26, Says Amazon

4:01AM September 11, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

We knew they were coming sometime in October, and now, thanks to a little slippy slip over at Amazon, it looks like Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac will be released on October 26. More »