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, “link:” […]

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 my […]

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 pictures […]

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 site software
Zoho Writer — Server side […]

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 the RSS icon on […]

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 – Text Editor
PStart – App Launcher
Gimp – […]

Write Without the Distractions

Mac users have been excited about WriteRoom, a no-frills text editor that whose background color is an eyeball-friendly black and the font is a cool green Courier, which looks very familiar to command line lovers. No distractions and a slim column complete this optimized environment for the serious writer.
Windows users have an alternative in Dark […]

Google: Ten Golden Rules

Google outlines how they deal with their most valuable asset — people.
At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of "knowledge workers." After all, Drucker invented the term in 1959. He says knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, […]