Best VPN Tool: OpenVPN [Hive Five Followup]
Last week we asked you to share your favorite VPN tool, then we rounded up the top five contenders for a vote. Now we’re back with the results.
Leading the pack was OpenVPN with 29% of the vote, followed closely by LogMeIn Hamachi (28%). Both are notable for being free although only OpenVPN is open source. In third place, the built-in Windows VPN software grabbed 19% of the vote, followed by Cisco VPN with 13% and Shrew Soft rounding out the Hive Five with 4%.
Check out the full Hive Five for additional information about VPNs and contenders. As always, if you have a great idea for a Hive Five shoot us an email at tips@lifehacker.com with “Hive Five” in the subject line.
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Loading ...Improve Meeting Efficiency with a 22-Minute Limit [Meetings]
Meetings don’t have to be the bane of the workday existence. Try scheduling them in 22-minute blocks to get more out of them and spend less time hating them.
Photo by brianpobuda.
Blogger Scott Berkun recommends latching onto Nicole Steinbok’s 22-minute meeting idea as a good metric for sticking to agendas and keeping meetings from becoming a time-sink.
Of course, even abbreviated meetings won’t work if you don’t make good use of the time. Do not, for example, show up at a meeting with a batch of handouts for everyone to dig into.
Send required readings 3 days beforehand – The burden is on the organizer to make this small enough that people actually do it. Never ever allow a meeting to be “lets all read the documents together and penalize anyone diligent enough to do their homework”. (note: I think 24 hours is plenty).
Of course, there may be times when 22 minutes is just not enough time to get things done. The vast majority of meetings, though, could probably be blasted through in even less time.
How do you keep your meetings from spiraling into three-hour marathons? Share your hard-earned tactics in the comments.
The 22 minute meeting [ScottBerkun.com]
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Windows 7: Hailing from the camp of “software that does exactly what its name implies”, Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-tunes the size, spacing, and margins of your Windows 7 Superbar icons.
If you’re unhappy with the size and spacing of application and folder thumbnails on your Superbar (less enthusiastically dubbed the taskbar in some circles), Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer adjusts them. Vertical size, spacing between the icons, and margins on the top and bottom of the icons are among the parameters awaiting your obsessive attention.
Don’t worry about remembering your initial settings—if you’re not happy with your Superbar’s new look, hit “Restore Defaults” and everything will return to its default. Have another application or trick for customizing your Windows interface? Let’s hear about it in the comments. Thanks Saudrapsmann!
7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer [Deviant Art via #Tips]
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