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A "life hack" is a clever shortcut or a lesser-known, faster way to complete a task; they are redefining personal productivity by tweaking, modding, mashing up, and repurposing Web apps, desktop software, and common everyday objects
This book presents the best hacks from the complete archive, with each section beginning by describing an overarching principle of the lifehacker, and then seguing into concrete applications of that guideline
Each of the 73 useful hacks features a step-by-step how-to for setting up and using the solution, detailed screen shots, and sidebars with additional tips
Wherever possible, free Web applications and platform-agnostic software are used
Synopsis:
If your hard drive is your outboard brain, you're a lifehacker — someone who loves to tweak your computer for optimum productivity to make it an ally instead of an adversary. Life hacks apply technology creatively, reprogramming your personal workflow to save time and effort. This book serves up 88 of them, outlined step by step and categorized by cost, platform, and level of geekiness. If you're overwired, overwhelmed, or totally tangled in the very technology that is supposed to simplify your life, this book is for you.
A dozen ways to turbocharge your day
Hack 3: Develop your digital photographic memory
Hack 8: Permanently block time-wasting Web sites
Hack 20: Automatically empty your digital junk drawer
Hack 30: Send and receive money on your cell phone
Hack 34: Carry your life on a flash drive
Hack 40: Back up data to your iPod
Hack 50: Script repetitive e-mail responses
Hack 56: Securely track your passwords
Hack 63: Quick-log your work day
Hack 76: Take your browser configuration with you
Hack 79: Capture Web clippings with Google Notebook
Hack 87: Resurrect deleted files
Companion Web site
At http://lifehackerbook.com you'll find updates, links, references, and additional tips and tools for the hacks in the book.
Synopsis:
Whether youre a Mac or Windows user, there are tricks here for you in this helpful resource. Youll feast on this buffet of new shortcuts to make technology your ally instead of your adversary, so you can spend more time getting things done and less time fiddling with your computer. Youll learn valuable ways to upgrade your life so that you can workand livemore efficiently, such as: empty your e-mail inbox, search the Web in three keystrokes, securely save Web site passwords, automatically back up your files, and many more.
Gina Trapani is an independent Web programmer and writer whose work has appeared in Wired magazine, The New York Times, and Time magazine. She is the founding editor of Lifehacker.com, a software and productivity Weblog she updates several times daily. A Sun Microsystem–certified Java programmer, Gina builds Web sites and Firefox extensions.
"Synopsis"
by Wiley,
If your hard drive is your outboard brain, you're a lifehacker — someone who loves to tweak your computer for optimum productivity to make it an ally instead of an adversary. Life hacks apply technology creatively, reprogramming your personal workflow to save time and effort. This book serves up 88 of them, outlined step by step and categorized by cost, platform, and level of geekiness. If you're overwired, overwhelmed, or totally tangled in the very technology that is supposed to simplify your life, this book is for you.
A dozen ways to turbocharge your day
Hack 3: Develop your digital photographic memory
Hack 8: Permanently block time-wasting Web sites
Hack 20: Automatically empty your digital junk drawer
Hack 30: Send and receive money on your cell phone
Hack 34: Carry your life on a flash drive
Hack 40: Back up data to your iPod
Hack 50: Script repetitive e-mail responses
Hack 56: Securely track your passwords
Hack 63: Quick-log your work day
Hack 76: Take your browser configuration with you
Hack 79: Capture Web clippings with Google Notebook
Hack 87: Resurrect deleted files
Companion Web site
At http://lifehackerbook.com you'll find updates, links, references, and additional tips and tools for the hacks in the book.
"Synopsis"
by Wiley,
Whether youre a Mac or Windows user, there are tricks here for you in this helpful resource. Youll feast on this buffet of new shortcuts to make technology your ally instead of your adversary, so you can spend more time getting things done and less time fiddling with your computer. Youll learn valuable ways to upgrade your life so that you can workand livemore efficiently, such as: empty your e-mail inbox, search the Web in three keystrokes, securely save Web site passwords, automatically back up your files, and many more.
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