Posts Tagged ‘web-app’

5 Ways To Celebrate Father’s Day, When Your Child is Still a Baby

Father’s Day is just around the corner. Besides taking the kids to the beach or having brunch at a nice restaurant, here are 5 ideas for dads to use web and social technologies to make this day even more memorable.

Tweet with the kid. Whether you are at a Father’s Day barbeque party or at a jazz concert, live-tweet the event and give short updates on what’s going on. You can share

June 19 2009 | By Leon | Tagged: family, father's day, parenting, twitter, web-app | 11 comments»

10 More from the Webware 100

Last week, I looked at the apps chosen by CNet for the productivity section of the Webware 100. There were, however, 10 other sections – 9 categories of apps voted for as top in their class and an extra categories of apps chosen by the editors at CNet. This week, I want to look at a selection of applications from the rest of the Webware 100… Continue reading

June 4 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: backup, image-editing, online, search, software, sync, twitter, web-app, webware-100 | 6 comments»

Getting Productive with the Webware 100

CNet’s Webware 100 singles out 100 web-based applications for excellence in 10 categories. Unlike some other awards which recognize new services, the Webware 100 are selected as “best-of-breed” from among all the applications currently available.The upshot is, there’s some pretty good apps on the list! Here, then, are my thoughts on the 10 selected in the “Productivity” category; in a future post I’ll look through some of the selections… Continue reading

May 28 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: collaboration, document, finance, online, remember-the-milk, software, task list, web-app, web2.0 | 10 comments»

The Case for Online Word Processors

It's no secret I am a fan of online word processors -- computing in the cloud is just the thing for a guy like me who (I'm told) is apt to find his head in the clouds as well. I'm writing this on Google Docs, and have made no secret of my love for Adobe's Buzzword (which unfortunately seems to have some issues on the computer I'm using… Continue reading

March 20 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: online-app, tool, web-app, web2.0, word processor, writer, writing | 25 comments»

Where Would You Be Today Without Social Media Tools?

Social media is becoming completely integrated in our lives. It has altered the way we communicate as human beings and changed the way we do business. It has flattened corporate hierarchies and tightened our relationships. Of course, traditional ways of networking and messaging still hold true, such as text messaging, email, phone calls and in-person "meetups" (tweetups in the social media world). The greatest part about this… Continue reading

March 2 2009 | By Dan | Tagged: community, facebook, linkedin, networking, promotion, social-media, social-networking, twitter, web-app | 16 comments»

30 Money Sites to Check Out in 2009

There are so many personal finance resources online that it's hard to know where to start. There are blogs, web applications, news sites and more. This list is a beginning — if you take a look at the sites included here, I know you'll find something new for 2009. Some of these sites are brand new, some are the online presence of organizations that have been around for decades. But… Continue reading

January 1 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: blog, Resource, web-app | 30 comments»

Back-To-School: 100 StudyRails Accounts Up For Grabs

Back in July, I wrote about StudyRails, a web application for students. That post is here. Since July, the team behind StudyRails has made some significant upgrades.With the fall semester just starting up, StudyRails has a special offer for Lifehack readers: a free semester of StudyRails, running through January 31, 2009. The normal price for a StudyRails account is… Continue reading

September 18 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: application, school, student, studyrails, web-app | 4 comments»

Summer Giveaway: Your Working Bookshelf

It’s about time to wrap up the Lifehack Great Big Summer Giveaway, and we’ve got a gorgeous leather laptop bag from Sports Accessories to wrap it up with. And since you’re bound to have some space left in the bag, we’ll throw in a $100 Amazing gift credit from the folks at Ubernote so you can fill it up with books (or whatever).

Last

August 29 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: bag, book, business, giveaway, note-taking, reading, ubernote, web-app | 116 comments»

9 Tips to Get the Most Out of Social Media

I recently had the opportunity to talk with social media expert Muhammad Saleem about social networking. For those of you new to the site, I interviewed Muhammad back in February on Lifehack Live.Muhammad is the one to watch in the social media sphere. He's a top-ranked user on Digg, Propellr, Reddit, and other social news sites, he has almost 2000 followers on Twitter, and he blogs or… Continue reading

August 18 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: networking, online, self-promotion, social-media, social-netowrk, web-app | 21 comments»

5 Alternatives to Time-Wasting Meetings

Nobody likes meetings. Well, not “nobody” – that older guy with the beard that nobody seems to know personally that comes to every meeting? He likes meetings, because he gets a free donut and a nap. But other than him, most people see meetings as way too unproductive and time-consuming to be likable. Necessary, sometimes, but not likable.There are a lot of reasons why meetings can waste more time than… Continue reading

August 6 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: brainstorming, collaboration, im, meeting, software, web-app | 20 comments»

Use Your Mobile Phone to Stay Organized On the Go

Like my geek ancestors before me, I am deeply devoted to my Moleskine notebook. I keep one in my backpack or in my back pocket at all times, with a range of suitable pens that make writing a joy (I'm a fan of the fine-tipped pigment pens favored by illustrators). For quick notes and thinking time, there's nothing better.

But I'm also a big fan of doing things efficiently, which… Continue reading

May 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: mms, mobile-phone, phone, sms, text-messaging, web-app | 14 comments»

5 MORE Ways to Make Your Computer Work For You (And Not The Other Way Around)

In my last post, I focused on ways to automate tasks on your computer, from backing up to document writing. Automation is something that computers are especially good at -- it is, after all, what they do.

An important part of mastering your computer, though, lies not in the software you use but the attitude you bring to the computer, the worldview that shapes how you interact with it… Continue reading

March 26 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: automation, centralization, computer, internet, Productivity, tip, web-app, workflow | 8 comments»

5 Ways to Make Your Computer Work For You (And Not The Other Way Around)

Computers have the potential to vastly increase our personal productivity. They are also, of course, capable of becoming vast time-sinks, sucking our productive moments away in a haze of frustration and imposed patience. Alas, the line between one and the other can be exceedingly thin. Here, then, are five ways to keep on the "productive" side of that line and avoid the "time-sink" factor. I've focused here on practices… Continue reading

March 24 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: automation, computer, file_management, internet, Productivity, tip, web-app, workflow | 14 comments»

The Newbie Guide to Blogging

We live in a blogging world. Whether you're a business startup, an established business, a freelancer, an intern, a musician, or anyone else, blogging can help you:

Make your name or brand visible
Connect with others in your business or interest
Reach out to the public about issues you're passionate about
Express yourself
Update clients or an audience about projects you're working on
Share your knowledge
Learn to write better
Share

February 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, blogging, Communication, software, tool, web-app | 69 comments»

12 Hours to Better Time Management

Work. Kids. School. Sports. Second job. Partner's job. The next great American novel. Your knitting circle. Remodeling the guest bathroom. Taking your car in for its 30,000 mile tune-up. An on and on and on -- it seems like we have things to do in abundance. What we don't ever seem to have enough of is time.

I think we all know what we should do, but the prospect… Continue reading

February 20 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: calendar, password, schedule, time, time-management, tool, web-app | 47 comments»