Free international calls

If you work on a college campus, there’s a great chance there are international students all around you. If you’ve gotten a chance to work with international students, you’ll find that there are a lot of resources we have that are of great benefit to them–among them, connections to American homes and American churches. Lifehacker…   Read more


Adobe Software For Rent

We recently wrote about free and cheap alternatives to Photoshop, but what about the times when you just have to have Photoshop? Until now, your options were to borrow a friend’s computer, cough up $500 for Photoshop, or to just deal with it. Now, that has changed. Adobe’s entire Creative Suite is now available for rent…   Read more


Will an iPad Make You More Productive?

These results are from a recent survey Google performed of how people used their tablet computers, the vast majority being iPads–source. I’ve owned an iPad (version 1) for four months and can say that I’m a more efficient consumer of information, but not any more efficient at production or task completion. There are two apps…   Read more


Call for requests: General Posts

Once again, we’re going to try this whole “Staffhacker readers get involved in the conversation” thing. So, it’s time for another “Call for Requests.” This time, we’re going to keep it simple. In fact, so simple that it’s actually just fulfilling the exact function as the “Suggest a Tip” button above: If you had one…   Read more


Hosting your own web site: Drupal Gardens

Drupal is an exceedingly powerful content management system, more powerful than any we’ve mentioned thus far. However, it traditionally has also been exceedingly hard to learn when you first approach it. Thankfully, there’s finally a hosted Drupal install that takes most of the work out of installing and learning Drupal: Drupal Gardens. Let me be…   Read more