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Top 10 Smart and Lazy Ways to Save Your Workday [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on February 20, 2008
If you leave the office most nights feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and behind on everything you've got to get done at work—even though you just spent 10 hours there—you're letting your workday get away from you. It's too easy to let the hours you spend at the office get stolen by meetings, email, interruptions, and impromptu co-worker chats that leave you saddled with busywork...
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The "Work From Home" Generation
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on January 24, 2008
For decades in American households the most dreaded morning soundwas that of an alarm clock. Sometime between 6 and 7am a beep or radio musicsignaled that it was time to get up and head to work. But in the early 21st centurytwo things have begun to change. First, the alarm clock is going off a little bit later. And second,instead of putting on suits and driving to work, people are heading to the...
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Hardy Heron Makes Linux Worth Another Look [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on April 25, 2008
If you've flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now. This week's release of Hardy Heron, an Ubuntu release that will be supported until 2011, offers a freer, more productive space for work and play than ever before. It's not easy jumping blind into a new way of thinking or working, and Ubuntu, the so-called...
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The Laptop Lover's Guide to Productivity On-the-Go [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on January 29, 2008
You're an on-the-go worker, and the one thing you always carry with you? Your trusty laptop, of course. Sure, you've reached a point where you're pretty good at getting things done away from your desk, but you still haven't reached laptop zen—that point at which your laptop does gymnastics for you and is a seamless extension of your productivity. Today we're taking a look at...
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Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 14, 2008
Macs may be more expensive, and Mac users more elitist (ahem), but blind Apple loyalty aside, there are a number of neat features bundled into your Mac that make it super useful and fun. We've covered dozens of Mac tips over the years in these pages, but today we're highlighting 10 lesser-known Mac tricks that come baked into Leopard. From pure eye candy to outright productivity-boosters,...
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A shortage of digital coaches
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on January 20, 2008
Here are three things that are true:1. Digital technology, especially computers and cell phones, can dramatically increase productivity.2. More and more users of digital technology are small firms or individuals.3. The vast majority of users of digital technology are totally lame in getting the most out of the investment of their time and money. "Oh, I didn't know I could do
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Revisiting The Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on March 26, 2008
I like to re-read my favorite books every few years, so I brought Robert Glass' seminal Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering with me on my most recent trip. I thought it was a decent, but imperfect read when I originally bought it in 2004. As I scanned through the introduction and table of contents, I realized that I've written about almost everything in this book by now. I'm...
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Pownce: Publicly Share Files via Lifestreams (Why Not?)
via web 2.0 by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Has Pownce found a new way to compete against Twitter? The latest feature for the microblogging competitor is the ability to share files, up to 250 MB for premium accounts (100 MB for the rest of us) with anyone–even non-users–reports Venturebeat . So it looks like Pownce is going distinctly down the file-sharing route. When you think about it, this is a natural progression for Pownce, as it...
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How to use Google’s calculator: convert to hexadecimal, binary, and decimal
via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO by Matt Cutts on February 11, 2008
One of Google’s goals is that you should be able to throw just about anything into a search box (package tracking numbers, airline flight numbers, etc.) and Google will try to do something reasonable, such as return the status of a flight. Recently I was trying to reverse engineer a USB protocol and needed to convert some numbers between base 16 (hexadecimal) and base 10 (decimal). On a hunch,...
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