ShopRiot is a website that creates a reverse auction. Rather than buyers bidding on products, sellers bid for your business. Here’s how it works: you create a new listing which includes the product and the maximum price you are willing to pay, then sellers enter bids to see who can provide…

Quintura is a tag-based search engine that specializes in searching for content about a particular topic. They recently created a version of their main search engine specifically for kids aptly named Quintura for Kids. Quintura for Kids has an interface complete with mountains and trees, perfect for children. More importantly…

The title pretty much says it all. We want to hear from you! What questions do you have for your fellow readers and your lovable lifehack.org editors. Do you have any burning questions you would like to have answered? Dying to learn about a new technology? Let us have…

The Scott H. Young weblog has a very interesting post that draws several parallels between unhealthy eating and your productivity. Sweet, greasy and delicious, empty calories are filler food that keep you feeling full while offering little nutritional value. In the short term, these empty calories are great. They let you feel good…

Properazzi is a property search engine specifically designed for Europe. It blends searching technologies with a pinch of Web 2.0. You can click on a location somewhere within Europe and it will give you all the relevant properties in and around the city you choose. Currently Properazzi has over 1,800,000…

Similar to the previously mentioned JourneyPage, PlanHQ is a website that helps you “take your static document out of the bottom drawer and into the real world.” A vague description, I know…Plan HQ is really a resource to help you do the following: Goals See the goals you have upcoming for completion over…

Scott Adams, creator of the wildly entertaining (and my personal favorite) comic “Dilbert,” gives his take on the formula for happiness. Some of the article is written in jest, however it is still a very interesting read. I fantasize about writing a book called The Happiness Formula. The idea would be…

If you’re a cubicle worker and you are striving to find new media to listen to at work, give Listen To A Movie a try. Listen To A Movie is a Web site that streams the audio of many popular movies and television shows. This seems like a perfect idea…

JourneyPage helps you get a jump start on some of your larger goals by creating visibility and accountability. JourneyPage lets you create a web page dedicated to your goal(s) and even add a project champion. Additionally, JourneyPage allows you to post what tasks you would like to accomplish daily. At…

Similar to this Jott and Gmail hack, you can similarly use Jott to add tasks directly to Outlook using your cellphone. The Primoris weblog details how to automate this process: Getting Things Done is all about having an airtight way of collecting ideas for things that need to be accomplished. But how do you…

If you’re a blog reader, chances are you’re also an aspiring blog writer. Launching a for-profit weblog is extremely attractive because it has the potential for endless profit with practically no overhead. Launching a blog is a quick and easy process even for the absolute beginner. The following is what I learned…

The studentlinc weblog gives some insight into how to create and manage your to do list using Jott and Gmail. The process involves using Jott in combination with the filter feature of Gmail: Here’s the Gmail side of it: Now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for…here’s where the two meet and create my to…

If you find the GTD system to be too confusing, time consuming, etc. give WSD a try. WSD is a simpler form of staying organized which is based on making sure you have a writing utensil and note card on you at all times. After you take notes on your note…

ProductWiki is a wiki (duh!) that lets users add unbiased reviews of various consumer products. The aim of ProductWiki is to have detailed, exhaustive, “straight from the consumer” reviews of consumer goods. The premise behind the site is exciting and the site is filled with many excellent reviews. ProductWiki is a web-based…

Zudos is a search engine that allows you to search the web for up to date information about any topic. Zudus queries a number of networking sites to pull relevant information about the topic you are interested in. Zudus is a simple tool to search “the sometimes chaotic social media space.” Zudos…