Productivity
Become a Gmail Master
A nice list of Gmail tips; I especially like the Gmail search operators summary: Search operators in Gmail work much the same as they do with Google. Type the operator followed by a colon, and then your search term (e.g., to:tips@lifehacker.com). Likewise, you can exclude terms from your search with the hyphen (-). The search [...]
Keyboard Shortcuts for the Mac
Working on a Mac? Learn some of these shortcuts to boost your productivity: Text ?A move to beginning of paragraph ?B move one character back ?D delete character to right ?E move to end of paragraph ?F move one character forward ?K delete text to end of paragraph ?N move to next line ?O insert [...]
Advanced Google Search Operators
Google has published an improved help center which gives information on advanced search operators such as “link:”: Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search. For instance, [...]
Essential email filters
You may not use them all, but there are some great ideas for email filters here: I receive hundreds of email messages a day, but only a couple dozen actually make it into my inbox. Thanks to the automated power of full-strength email filters, just the messsages that are important enough to deal with catch [...]
Bloglines Scrolling using ‘j’ and ‘k’
Bloglines introduces hotkeys; most helpful to me is the smooth scrolling when you use ‘j’ and ‘k’. See all hotkeys at Bloglines | News
Gmail Contact View
A great Gmail tip: In Gmail, I keep finding it really useful to hit the Contacts button on the left side navigation area, and then click on a contact’s name. What comes back is a little contact card area up top (complete with picture, if they’re a Gmail user, or if you’ve bothered to add [...]
Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet
Get a Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet, compliments of Leslie Franke.
Best Web Applications
Here are the web applications I use the most: D3 ‘Kinkless’ GTD System — Getting Things Done Wiki — the lifeblood of my daily task management (http://www.dcubed.ca) Gmail – Email Google Notebook — Save/manage links and other content in a Wiki-like format Google Analytics — Web site stats Bloglines — RSS Reader WordPress — Blog [...]
Firefox Extensions
Here are the Firefox Extensions I’ve found to be most useful: ColorZilla – Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies (http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/) Session Saver — magically restore your last browser sessions pages (http://adblock.ethereal.net/alchemy.cgi/SessionSaver) IE Tab — Open IE only pages in embedded IE (http://adblock.ethereal.net/alchemy.cgi/SessionSaver) Livelines — Add RSS feeds to Bloglines or Sage with [...]
USB Stick Portable Apps
Take your most important apps around on a USB stick. Most of these are available from http://portableapps.com. Here are the ones I use. OpenOffice – Office Suite and line-art design tools FireZilla – FTP Nvu – Web page editor Firefox – Web browser LockNote – Encrypt a text file (to store passwords, etc.) PSPad – [...]
