Famous families are all around us, from the Clinton dynasty to Mylie and Billy Ray Cyrus. They evoke in us so many things because we can relate, on some small level, to them. Not that many of our daughters are famous pop singers or that many of our parents are presidents. Sometimes we hate the very mention of family and at other times the thought warms our… » Continue
May 13 2008 | By Mike | Tagged: Productivity, website | 8 comments»
I find Wikipedia to be a great starting point for online research, but you can’t really use it in your writing. Scholastici.us has 20 other suggestions that you could actually reference legitimately.
Encylopedia Britannica - I know it seems awfully “old school” but this site is an excellent source of information and much more authoritative than Wikipedia.
What are you suggestions?
Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Can’t Do
September 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: research, website, wiki | 3 comments»
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»
Before deciding on a destination for your last minute trip, why not consult The Havaria World Disaster Map to make sure you’re not heading into trouble.
It’s quite impressively up to date, chronicling anything like extreme weather to a biological hazard. Earthquake and volcano activity is also documented, as well as airplane accidents out of the US.
The Havaria World Disaster Map - Via [Moleskinerie]… » Continue
March 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: travel, weather, website | 1 comment»
zpeech is an application that lets you add comments to any Web site. All you need to do is add “zpeech.com” to the first part of a Web site’s domain name. Checkout http://zpeech.com/lifehack.org and you will see a message I left. Like I said, this works on any Web site, even Web sites without a built in commenting system. Give it a try and let… » Continue
February 21 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: application, online, Technology, website | 70 comments»
What’s in a name? Does it define your website or is the domain just a placeholder?
Like many others, I’m currently in the process of choosing domain names, and it’s no fun. Chris Garret simpathises in this article describing why he chose chrisg.com and what you should take into consideration when registering your domain.
When choosing a domain name there are some factors to consider:
February 12 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: web, website, websites | 5 comments»
TenantMarket is a Web site with the goal of matching landlords with tenants. As described by Emily Chang, it appears to be the “Match.com for apartments.” When looking for a rental in a new city, I had a great experience with rent.com and apartmentfinder.com. I wish I had know about this service back then. Here is the description from TenantMarket:
Renters: Tell landlords what you… » Continue
February 8 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: apartment, household, rental, website | 2 comments»
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»
I had a chance recently to review mynoteIT, which comes off as a kind of Backpack for students. But what’s great about it (and where I think Alex and Justin Weidmann have hit a home run with this product) is that they’ve specialized the program. It’s truly built for students. Listen to some of these features:
August 24 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backtoschool, education, learning, mynoteit, school, software, students, website | 5 comments»
Remember that really cool feeling when you were in seventh or eigth grade and you first heard a new band? You’d ask your friends, and they’d say, “Who?” And you’d think, YES! *I* discovered this band! Me! It didn’t matter that 300,000 other people had also “discovered” them, or that this was really their sixth album.
That’s how I just felt when I read around the posts at the Daily… » Continue
August 12 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: planning, Productivity, website | 2 comments»
Jake Olefsky is working hard. He’s got even MORE features into Toodledo that should be enticing to practitioners of GTD and users of online to-do products. Check out the current feature list for this free web-based software:
August 2 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: software, todo, web2.0, website | 10 comments»
I’ve recently struck up a friendship with a guy who works for About.com. My first thought when he told me this was, ‘They’re still around?’ He mentioned that he gets that a lot.
His site had to do with podcasting, and it was a lot of reference material, tied to a bunch of articles. There’s a lot to look at, and it takes your eye a little while to… » Continue
August 1 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: about.com, howto, information, topics, website | 1 comment»
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 something good or an X box if it’s something you’re trying to improve. Then, once… » Continue
June 12 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: goals, software, tool, tools, web2.0, website | 2 comments»
Bikely is a new site to share bike routes. It’s so simple, and yet, it’s really useful. Seeing a MAP of a route is of little value to me, because I don’t know from the map whether the route will be scenic, whether there are elevations that are going to force me to over-use my Granny gears. But a site that simply lets you share the routes you like?
Put… » Continue
June 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: bicycle, commuting, cycling, directions, howto, routes, social, website | 2 comments»
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 general vicinity of that exchange is returned. I hope this expands to other countries.
May 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: npanxx, software, tool, tools, web2.0, website | no comments»
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