Posts Tagged ‘web2.0’

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

March 6 2008 | By Rowan | Tagged: Guy_Kawasaki, Productivity, software, tip, web2.0 | 17 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

August 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gtd, web2.0 | 11 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

August 22 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: notes, notetaking, students, study, studying, tool, web, web2.0, webtools, wiki | 40 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

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

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

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

April 9 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: blogs, flickr, howto, network2, pbwiki, podcamp, socialmedia, software, twitter, web2.0, webapps, wiki, wordpress | 8 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

March 31 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: calendar, gtd, hitask, schedule, software, web2.0 | 16 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

March 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: books, web2.0 | 12 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

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

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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

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

Improved productivity with Web 2.0

If you’re at all like me, you’re more than sick of the term “Web 2.0.” The amount of Web 2.0 applications available can seem overwhelming. However, understanding what each application can do can really increase your productivity. Go 2 Web 2.0 is a site that indexes all Web 2.0 applications and lets you search the applications based on the task you want to complete. For… » Continue

February 7 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: online, Productivity, tasks, web2.0 | 1 comment»

Next Generation Recipe Sharing

One day, my Mom sat down with me and shared a dozen family recipes from both sides of the family. In there are things like tortierre (sp?) pie, a famous French pork pie with potatoes and enough cholesterol to kill you after one slice. There’s also my favorite date balls (dates, rice, and coconut, but I forget the rest). A dozen whole recipes that came off smeared, dirty, bent and… » Continue

August 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: food, nick+senzee, recipe, sharing, software, web2.0, website | 1 comment»

Blogging for Kids

Warning: No, you’re not on Parent Hacks all of a sudden, but I want your take on this.

I was never a big fan of report writing, especially the research portion. But when I could make it into a dazzling project, then it was kind of fun. My mom helped me with this big report on the Black Rhinoceros. I remember facts about that creature today (26 years later- ouch)… » Continue

August 10 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: aidan, blogging, blogs, kidblogger, kids, research, web2.0 | 14 comments»