From supercharging Excel to a tool that syncs documents among multiple PCs, these timesavers can make you more productive immediately.
April 2008
Monthly Archive
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Update: Microsoft postpones release of Windows XP SP3
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Microsoft has delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 after discovering compatibility issues between the SP3 release and its point-of-sale application for small and midsize retailers.
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Defer Email Delivery in Microsoft Outlook [Outlook Tip]
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Make it seem like you’re sending email when you’re really playing hooky with Outlook’s built-in “defer delivery” rule. Tech blogger Dennis O’Reilly runs down how to set up Outlook to delay sending…
Wed 30 Apr 2008
FLVto Converts YouTube Videos to MP3s, No Upload Required [YouTube]
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FLVto is a web app with three buttons, one input box, and one simple-but-great function of converting YouTube and other Flash-based videos to MP3 audio files. We’ve shared a reader-submitted…
Wed 30 Apr 2008
AppMenuBoy Adds an Applications Menu to Your Dock [Featured Mac Download]
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Mac OS X only: Back in the non-Stacks days of Tiger, you could add a folder to the Dock and expand it into a hierarchical menu. Now with Stacks you can’t easily navigate subfolders from a folder on…
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Create a Crutch Activities Checklist to Fight Time-Suckers [Procrastination]
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Sticking to to-do lists with specific next actions can help you get things done, but we can all get lost along the way, whether in the wide-open playground of a browser or some other time sink….
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Where You Find the Time to Spend Online [Time Management]
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Where do people find the time to do things like edit the Wikipedia? They watch less television, says author Clay Shirky in a fantastic, brief talk at the recent Web 2.0 conference. Shirky makes a…
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Translate.Net is One Desktop Translator to Rule Them All [Languages]
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Windows only: Ever use an online translation service and wonder if you can get more accurate results elsewhere? Translate.Net, a free Windows translation aggregator, knows just how you feel. The…
Wed 30 Apr 2008
The 80/20 rule of economics can be applied to a lot of life’s dilemmas, but blogger Jodie Clements used the rule as one of her “10 Commandments” to help her drop 10 pounds and feel better overall….
Wed 30 Apr 2008
What Disposable Items Do You Re-Use? [Ask The Readers]
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Over at the TipNut blog, they’ve rounded up 20 supposedly disposable items and how to reuse them, in ways both common (newspapers for kitty litter liners) and unique (greasing pans with used butter…