The recently released Google Toolbar supports free SMS sending, but this is only for Internet Explorer at the moment. Firefox users are pretty disppointed on this because they are missing this cool feature. Looks no further, you can actually access the feature by a web address. Thanks Joe for the news. Send a Text

Whether we’re webmasters, bloggers, or just students, we want our writing to be the best it can be. This is particularly true when writing about persuasive essay topics. The whole reason for writing the persuasive essay is to change someone’s mind about something. Hopefully, we have chosen a topic about which we…

AjaxTrans is an online translator which can translate between English, Spanish, German, Italian, Protuguese, or French. Best of all, this is using AJAX so the translated words will be immediately shown on the other text field: Start typing any text you want to be translated into the green field. The words should be automatically translated into…

Over at Google Hacks, Bigthistle has posted his tips on using Google language tools service as a proxy. This is useful when you are in universities or offices and want to access web sites that are black listed. All you need to do is to type this URL:http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.example.com Where www.example.com is…

Gchart is a Google Map powered application which can help you find out the current time around the world. I usually use Time and Date, but Gchart is pretty useful when I need to find the current time on the area quickly. All I need is to load up the site, click on the…

Depends on your application, this online label generator may be useful or fun on some occasions. This service can generate some cool looking warning labels, and you can save this picture and print it out to warn people or just have some fun by sticking in front of your office cube. Here is an example…

Chris Wright has written a 2 parts articles on describing his GTD setup in Yahoo’s calendar. I thought his article is pretty good, as there are not much GTD users who have implementations on online services. In the first part, he mentions couple of important aspects in the system including calendar, tickler file, notepad…

Gina Trapani at Lifehacker talks about her tips on writing on the web. She realises the problem of web has too much contents, so the most effective writing on the web is less words, and more contents. She suggests six tips: Use explicit titles and subject lines. Write a strong lead. Use frequent paragraph breaks. Provide context. Link smartly. Be brief. I…

Our reader, Omar has sent me a new regarding a task management that launched today. It is called Remember The Milk. Yes it is another online todo list services, but it is pretty soild on the features. Here is how Omar describes the service: It’s an online to-do list management system with an innovative tabbed interface for…

Robert Andrews has asked couple of top tagger at del.icio.us for some good tips on tagging. If you are not planning and maintaining your tags, once your bookmarks is grow bigger, it will become harder to search through the bookmark you want. Couple of good tips from them are: Use high descriptive words. Avoid…

Daniel Miessler has merged the GTD method into his daily reading news routine. It is not about separating your news into different contexts, but he is using another philosophy behind GTD – which is about depending on a system you trust: … The system I use is based on two products — NetNewsWire, an OS X…

After for a while, Google finally catched up and made a specialized search for blog. This will be useful if you are looking for materials on people comments and reviews on specific topic: Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we…

The hardest question comes from my girl friend is: ‘what should I cook for tonight?’. Same as you for your girl friend or wife? Tell me about it. Now with FoodieView, a recipe search engine, I can search ingredients we have in the fridge to find some recipe for nice dishes. For example, when I…

Simson L. Garfinkel has made an online PDF generator for lined notepaper with the current month calendar on the top right hand side. It also has the subject and page number field, and rooms for you to staple or punch holes to bind those notepapers together. Notepaper Generator – [simson.com] Related: Lifehack.org’s Online Graph / Grid

OneLook Dictionary Search is a cool service that able you to search a list of related words or phrases from a word and concept: OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question…