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How to Turn Your iPhone 3G Into a Wireless Modem
If you don't mind breaking the rules, you can use your iPhone 3G as a wireless broadband modem for your notebook. Lifehacker explains how: It starts by "jailbreaking" your phone, meaning hacking it a bit so it can run software from sources other than the App Store. This is a...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Wireless Modem, Lifehacker, 3G, Modems, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-07-22
How to Overhaul a Messy Home Office
Take it from me: It's wayyyy too easy for a home office to vanish under piles of clutter. If you know the feeling, check out Dumb Little Man's 10 steps to a clean, rejuvinated office. A step sampling: Start with an empty room  It will be wise to...
Tags: Desk, Microsoft Office, LifeHacker, Fax, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-06-27
Get More From Gmail with Better Gmail 2
Much as we all love Gmail, there's always room for improvement. Lifehacker's Better Gmail 2 is a compiled collection of hacks (actually, Greasemonkey scripts rolled into a single Firefox extension) that adds optional extra features to the Web-mail service. These features include: Attachment icons Instead of the...
Tags: E-mail Providers, Better Gmail 2, Lifehacker, Google Gmail, Internet, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-11-09
CYA By Keeping Good Notes
Workplace conflicts and miscommunications happen all the time. How can you protect yourself from accusations, reprimands, and other misery-causing office situations? Lifehacker's Gina Trapani says good note-taking skills can save the day. For example: What do butt-covering notes look like? First, all your notes should be dated. Date the...
Tags: Rick Broida, Online Communications, Software, Office Suites, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Office, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Word Processors, E-mail, Microsoft Word, Recruitment & Selection, Lifehacker, Note, IBM Lotus Notes
Blog posts 2007-10-01
How to Create a Consistent Workspace Between PCs
If you work on more than one PC -- say, a desktop at home and a notebook at work -- you know what a struggle it can be to keep everything in sync: documents, bookmarks, programs, and the like. Lifehacker shows you how to maintain a consistent workspace, meaning a...
Tags: Lifehacker, PC, Rick Broida, Desktops
Blog posts 2007-08-29
How to Back Up Your Google Apps Data
If you rely on one or more Google Apps (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc.), you probably lay awake nights worrying what would happen if some disaster befell Google's servers -- and wiped out your data along with it. Lifehacker's Adam Pash shows you how to back up various Google...
Tags: Web Tools, Documents, Rick Broida, Google Inc., Google Apps, Lifehacker
Blog posts 2007-07-26
Eliminate Weak Words From Your Resume
You know how some of those little habits â€" like leaving the toothpaste uncapped and drinking milk directly out of the carton â€" annoy your spouse? In much the same way, your resume might be doing things that turn off your prospective boss. Lifehacker has pointed us to Squawkfox, which has...
Tags: Word, Lifehacker, Leadership, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Team Management, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-01-26
Let Your Windows XP Computer Impersonate Windows 7
Your computer is just a business tool, like an electric stapler and that shredder the boss uses to destroy your company's audit trail. But while I've never seen a stapler cozy, I do know that people go to great lengths to personalize their PC. So why not run a few...
Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Lifehacker, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-02-19
Easily Find All the Acronyms in Your Word Documents
I spent a few years in the Air Force before becoming a highly paid blogger. And back at the NROC, I used to need to file WCA reports whenever there was a WAM event (or, obviously, if the WAMR triggered a TDD warning). Indeed, it was tense, but when a CCA...
Tags: Acronym, Lifehacker, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-05-14
A Few Productivity Tips From Lifehacker's Gina Trapani
A Few Productivity Tips From Lifehacker's Gina TrapaniRE: A Few Productivity Tips From Lifehacker's Gina TrapaniI use http://www.Gtdagenda.com as my system. Great tool.
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Lifehacker Gina Trapani, Lifehacker
Discussion threads 2008-09-09

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A Few Productivity Tips From Lifehacker's Gina Trapani
Lifehacker.com is my favorite source of inspiration for tips on personal productivity -- just a beautifully designed, written, and frequently updated source of organizational goodness. So I was happy to read this  interview with Lifehacker lead editor Gina Trapani on Harvard Business Publishing, written by Scott Berkun....
Tags: Personal Organization, Lifehacker.com, Berkun, Smart Phones, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-08-28
Zen, Lifehacker and Productivity
At this week's Etech conference in San Diego, Lifehacker's Gina Trapani told attendees that becoming more productive doesn’t always mean keeping up with the latest killer app, funneling your whole being through a sieve of uber-efficiency, or even staying on task all the time. A truly productive life and career...
Tags: Life, Professional Development, Career, Jeff Palfini
Blog posts 2008-03-07
Windows App Frozen? Here's an Easy Way to Kill It
Ooh, I love the folks at Lifehacker. Not a day goes by where I don't read something that's marginally useful at worst, exquisitely awesome at best. And today's no exception, thanks to the How-To Geek, who offers a great alternative to using the Windows Task Manager to...
Tags: Hotkey, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, CC Holland
Blog posts 2009-04-29
Windows 7 Guides: The Best Of [Windows 7]
There is no one definitive Windows 7 guide—it's a sprawling OS with a decades-long legacy, so nobody can cover it all. But with our powers combined, you're in good hands. If you see one that's not above We covered everything we could in Gizmodo's official eight-chapter mega-guide, so hit that...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
News items 2009-10-28
Rev Up Your Printing Efficiency
Hey, so this is cool. Lifehacker just wrote about a free download called HP Smart Web Printing that lets you combine multiple Web items onto one page. It saves you from having to print out tons of extraneous information and wasting paper. It's Windows-only, but it...
Tags: CC Holland, Marketing, Managerial Accounting, Finance, Software, Enterprise Software, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Document Management, Printing, Web, Internet
Blog posts 2008-05-21
Re-Scan Suspicious Files with Jotti
Ever come across a program or file that you think is legit and useful but your onboard anti-virus program flags as suspect? Before you give up on it, run it through one of the online scanners that LifeHacker suggests to see if you're dealing with malware or just got a...
Tags: David Goldenberg, File, Hardware, Peripherals, Scanners, Security, Viruses And Worms
Blog posts 2008-06-27
Use 7-Zip to Compress Your Files
What's the best file compression tool out there? According to a recent Lifehacker poll, it's not even close: 7-Zip blew away a crowded field to take home a majority of the votes.  Though 7-Zip only works on Windows and Linux computers, it's free, straightforward, and doesn’t eat up...
Tags: 7-zip, Linux, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Digital Music, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, David Goldenberg
Blog posts 2008-10-31
10 most popular English-language blogs.(Book of Tens 2006)(Brief article)
Byline: Source: Technorati 1. Engadget (engadget.com) 2. Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (boingboing.net) 3. Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide (gizmodo.com) 4. The Huffington Post (huffingtonpost.com) 5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) 6. Daily Kos:...
Tags: blog, Blogging, Boing Boing, Engadget, Gizmodo, INTERNET, TechCrunch, Technorati
Research articles 2006-12-18
A Productivity Watchdog for Your PC
So you really think you're productive at work? Now you can put your money where your mouth is by tracking your computer usage. Jason Fitzpatrick at Lifehacker just wrote about Productivity Meter, a time-tracking tool that runs in the background on your Windows machine and keeps tabs...
Tags: PC, Tool, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, CC Holland
Blog posts 2009-01-06
The Art of the Out-of-Office AutoReply
After PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak wrote a screed about the evils of using AutoReply, the folks over at LifeHacker set up a poll asking readers whether they used the feature when they were away on vacation or otherwise unable...
Tags: E-mail, E-mail providers, David Goldenberg, General, Travel Tips, Web Tools, Out-of-Office AutoReply
Blog posts 2007-02-12
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