Number 7 in the greatest tools of all time list is that weightiest of tools known as the Tie-Rod Separator. This hard forged tool is reminiscent of nothing so much as a giant tuning fork and its use will bring music to your ears. It is no less than twelve inches in length and has…

Not as catchy as “Eat at Joe’s,” I admit, but Ian has revealed to us his Ajaxy goal tracking software and it’s called Joe’s Goals. It’s so simple, and yet so effective. It’s a calendar grid where you can throw your goals down the left hand side, assigning them either a check box for if it’s…

Here’s a mash-up of Google Maps with an Area Code and Exchange finding service (called NPA-NXX in the schema used by telephone providers in the US). I tried it and got great results on five random searches. When one enters in the appropriate information and clicks search, a Google Map with a pin showing the…

It’s a global world and you’re just playing in it. You want to connect to a lot of people? Start doing a little more to speak their language. Today, Yahoo! rolled out Babel Fish today, a translation site that lets you cut/paste snippets of text into a box and then request it back in other…

In his great book, Improv for Actors, Dan Diggles talks about how actors use status to convey subtext. In this context, status means how one actor’s role is perceived against the other actor. A rich CEO acts full of vim and vigor while the lowly gardener keeps his head low and his eyes averted. In acting, status is helpful to convey the meaning of a scene. It’s exaggerated to make a stronger contrast for the sake of the audience. But there’s something here for you to consider.

R. Emory Williamson-Lundberg has done a very useful whitepaper on GTD. This is one of the best organized summaries on tools and use-case for getting things done. It shows two different set of tools that can use with GTD mythology – HiFi – things like software, and LoFi – paper and physical filing stuff. The…

Since our readers are often looking for organization tools, for real application or just to play around, there is a resource that may interest you. At Listible, there is a list on online calendar (and todo) which covers most of the popular system around the Net. Such as the 30 Boxes, Remember the Milk etc…

Dwayne Melancon has developed a spreadsheet multi-choice, multi-factor decision. This is a spreadsheet he has developed ten years ago which helped his hiring decision. Now he have updated and tweaked it to suit general selection task for modern world. This is an example on how to use this spreadsheet: … The spreadsheet contains tabs with three…

There is a way to measure something that is longer than a ruler you have, and it is (very) portable. Mitchell Charity has a page with template on business cards, which help you measure distance and size of an object. Depends on your eye and the arm’s length and print out the appropriate pdf…

Over Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching, Rosa has a good new toy for killing procrastination – Self-Inking Date Stamper. How does this work? When she handles a paper of paper (no matter if you are collecting, processing reviewing, delegating), she stamps it with the date stamper. With the date on the paper, when she…

Martin over TipMonkies has introduced a list of disposable email address services. What is it? It is a temporary email account you can setup to receive email – it maybe best to register web services. Some of them are permanent, but some of them will remove your temporary email account after few hours (such as…

Another web on AJAX implementation – but this is a pretty simple yet effective tools for searching dictionary for definitions. Upon typing the word in the text field, the software will return the definitions on the word immediately, without the need of submitting the form and wait for the page to reload. ObjectGraph Dictionary

Here is a tool called Time Tracker – It is a To-do tracker with a time facility so that you can keep track of time you spend on specific task. It is made with AJAX so the usability is pretty high. It also gives you a set of suggestions which you were entered. Time Tracker

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…