Product Description

Redefine your personal productivity by tweaking, modding, mashing up, and repurposing Web apps, desktop software, and common everyday objects. The 88 "life hacks" –– clever shortcuts and lesser–known, faster ways to complete a task –– in this book are some of the best in Lifehacker.com′s online archive. Every chapter describes an overarching lifehacker principle, then segues into several concrete applications. Each hack includes a step–by–step how–to for setting up and using the solution with cross–platform software, detailed screen shots, and sidebars with additional tips. Order your copy today and increase your productivity!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #353805 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From the Back Cover
If your hard drive is your outboard brain, you′re a lifehacker — someone who loves to tweak your computer for optimum productivity to make it an ally instead of an adversary. Life hacks apply technology creatively, reprogramming your personal workflow to save time and effort. This book serves up 88 of them, outlined step by step and categorized by cost, platform, and level of geekiness. If you′re overwired, overwhelmed, or totally tangled in the very technology that is supposed to simplify your life, this book is for you.

A dozen ways to turbocharge your day

• Hack 3: Develop your digital photographic memory
• Hack 8: Permanently block time–wasting Web sites
• Hack 20: Automatically empty your digital junk drawer
• Hack 30: Send and receive money on your cell phone
• Hack 34: Carry your life on a flash drive
• Hack 40: Back up data to your iPod
• Hack 50: Script repetitive e–mail responses
• Hack 56: Securely track your passwords
• Hack 63: Quick–log your work day
• Hack 76: Take your browser configuration with you
• Hack 79: Capture Web clippings with Google Notebook
• Hack 87: Resurrect deleted files

Companion Web site

At http://lifehackerbook.com you′ll find updates, links, references, and additional tips and tools for the hacks in the book.

About the Author
Gina Trapani is an independent Web programmer and writer whose work has appeared in Wired magazine, The New York Times, and Time magazine. She is the founding editor of Lifehacker.com, a software and productivity Weblog she updates several times daily. A Sun Microsystem–certified Java programmer, Gina builds Web sites and Firefox extensions.

Customer Reviews

Kick Ass Tips
It's a nice compilation of tips and all that I tried work. I must admit that getting the windows script host running on my machine took me about 1 hour on total, but it's been worth the effort. now i can run VB scripts. And I'm running todo.sh for a week and I feel it's going to be my task list manager for a long while :)

Have fun! and visit lifehacker.com

disclaimer: i'm not being paid by anybody to comment on this book ;)