Geek Out

This Chart Perfectly Describes Your Workplace Computing

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]


February 11, 2011
Geek Out

Take A Tour Through Google’s Sydney Office

Gizmodo AU

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.


December 7, 2010

Turn Your Office Chair Into An Office Bed In Seconds

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.


October 30, 2010

Transparent Hole Punch Makes Too Much Sense For This Cruel World

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?


October 20, 2010

Repurpose A Shoe Organiser For Compartmentalised Cable Storage

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.


September 11, 2010
Software

Office For Mac 2011 Arriving October 26, Says Amazon

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.


August 12, 2010
Gadgets

These DIY Office Roller Skates Are Bound To Break Some Limbs

Military boots + office chair wheels = roller skates for Olivia Newton-John in a camouflage dress. Modern life doesn’t get more betterer than this. [ThereIfixedit]


June 28, 2010

Microsoft Would Like To Remind You That They’re Still Quite Ginormous

Hey, it’s Microsoft. You remember us, right? People make it seem like we’re dying because all anyone wants to talk about these days is Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter. Well, we’re still here. And we’re still big. Here’s how big:


May 23, 2010

The Star Trek Crew, Beaming To The Deck Of The U.S.S. Microsoft

Microsoft has an incredible Star Trek sculpture in the lobby of their Studio D office, an installation that continually gives the appearance that Kirk, Spock and the rest are just on the verge of materializing. But how’s it done?


April 29, 2010
Software

It’s Not Stealing If It’s Lying In The Street…

Gizmodo AU

Sure, it’s nothing more than a simple prank that would be at home on your candid camera type show, but instead of using cold, hard cash, the pranksters used a copy of Microsoft Office. And watching it sure beats working…