Posts Tagged ‘web2.0’

Adobe Moves Closer to Online Office Suite with Presentations, Spreadsheets, Premium Plans for Businesses

Long-time readers of Lifehack know of my ongoing love affair with Adobe’s online word processor Buzzword, since last year part of the Acrobat.com suite of online applications. “Love affair” is not too strong a phrase, either – I like the interface and ease of use so much that I was inspired to write a book, Don’t Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at

June 16 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: acrobat.com, adobe, online-app, presentation, web2.0 | 5 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 | 8 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 | 23 comments»

Guy Kawasaki’s Thoughts on Online Life

Guy Kawasaki visited Ireland to deliver his Art Of The Start talk at the Irish Software Association’s annual conference. His 'Irished-up' version of the talk was warmly received by a packed house. Despite his busy work and tourist schedule (this was his first visit to Ireland) Guy found time to sit down and discuss his online life, how he stays in touch with everything that is… Continue reading

March 6 2008 | By Rowan | Tagged: Guy_Kawasaki, Productivity, software, tip, web2.0 | 21 comments»

Which Online GTD App Is Right For You?

GTD is supposed to organize and make things easier in your life. Over the last few years of growing GTD-hype many things have been established. Most importantly, you can't have a GTD system that takes up more time than the projects and tasks themselves. However, you have to find the right system for yourself. This is easy when we're talking about physical and 'lo-tech' GTD systems because they… Continue reading

August 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gtd, web2.0 | 14 comments»

Advice for Students: Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking

It's back to school time, and it's time to make good on the promises you made yourself last year to be more organized this time around! One of the stumbling blocks I see most often in my students is taking -- and keeping -- good notes for their classes. Ideally, you'd like to have notes on all your reading, as well as notes from lectures, and you'd like… Continue reading

August 22 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: notes, notetaking, students, study, studying, tool, web, web2.0, webtools, wiki | 41 comments»

Get Invited To Any Private Beta

For all the latest web startups and their invitation-only beta launches, there are a hoard of early adopters ready to try them out. Whether it's money-management Mint or something seemingly less useful like Pownce, this site has you covered. InviteShare rounds up the most popular web apps in private beta and let's wannabe users add their emails to the list. People who have invites to share for any… Continue reading

July 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: web2.0 | 8 comments»

Replacing Microsoft With Web Apps

Similar to our Top 10 Microsoft Alternatives post, Mashable.com have put together an ordered list of web-based alternatives to common Microsoft software. For me, and anyone else who finds themselves working on different computers and wanting to keep as much stuff online as possible, we've already explored these possibilities. Mashable go one further and make it easy for everyone to choose which program they want to replace and try… Continue reading

June 26 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: microsoft, web2.0 | no comments»

LifeDev’s Productivity Tools

Although we do try to keep track of many online and digital organizers that we may not use ourselves here at Lifehack, we don't necessarily post all the updates. That's why it's nice to see a site as good as LifeDev start up a Productivity Tools section that focuses on just that. They've been doing well to cover most of the changes occurring in the online organizer field over… Continue reading

April 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: online, organization, Productivity, tools, web2.0, webtools | no comments»

Right Tool Right Job- Social Media

I had this idea that I bet Leon and the others can riff on. Basically: there are plenty of tools out there for lots of aspects of life. Let's make sure we propose the proper tool (or our take on a good tool) for the right job. From managing our tasks and priorities to determining how best to engage our communities, let's all start looking around for the right tools… Continue reading

April 9 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: blogs, flickr, howto, network2, pbwiki, podcamp, socialmedia, software, twitter, web2.0, webapps, wiki, wordpress | 9 comments»

HiTask is My New Favorite Organizer

I have been between organizing systems for a little while. I've tried a bunch of things: Google Calendar, Stickies (the built in Mac program that makes little Post-It notes), and a few easily forgettable PIM software apps. I've used Backpack in the past, and a few of the various To-Do software products that so many readers of Lifehack.org write or support. But my new favorite is HiTask. First, it's clean and… Continue reading

March 31 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: calendar, gtd, hitask, schedule, software, web2.0 | 19 comments»

aNobii - Share, Track & Buy Books

"Print Is Dead" - Egon A few years ago I tried out an online book cataloguing site called LibraryThing. It's still going strong, with an excellent community of readers contributing. aNobii is a newcomer, a clear rival to LibraryThing. It's feature full and doesn't come up short in any way. While LibraryThing has most of the same features as aNobii, it doesn't look nearly as good. Aesthetics aside, aNobii isn't missing anything… Continue reading

March 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: books, web2.0 | 13 comments»

Schoolr: Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, and more on one site

Okay, so most of us are out of school, but Schoolr can still be of great use. Schoolr is a site that ties the functionality of Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Reference.com, a citation builder, foreign language translator, unit converter, and a book summary into one website. The idea is very simple, Schoolr is a simple one page website with all this functionality built right… Continue reading

March 19 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Technology, web2.0, website | 6 comments»

Attend Conferences Without Being There

There are LOTS of conferences to attend, and only so much time and money to get around. For instance, I wished I could've dragged myself down to Austin, Texas to attend South by Southwest Interactive. But my own conference, Video on the Net is next week, and I'm busy. So this is how I learned how to attend without being there.

Live Flow- Twitter [website]- Add enough

March 13 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: blip.tv, conference, conferences, itconversations, linkedin, podtech, software, sxsw2007, twitter, videoonthenet, web2.0, youtube | 10 comments»

OttoBib - Free Bibliography Generator

Back in high school I deplored writing bibliographies. All the formatting rules drove me up the wall and I never understood the need for a standard of referencing books. How I wish OttoBib was available back then. This handy little browser app takes the ISBN [International Standard Book Numbers] of the books you want to reference and changes that into one of three formats, MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian. That's it, instant… Continue reading

February 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: essay, web2.0 | 7 comments»

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