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Notes from Lifehacker The Book
By divya
Created 05/25/2008 - 10:36

I read Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day which was surprisingly available in the NLB. A lot of it is already covered in The Best of Lifehacker in Upgrade Your Life [1] (the set of sources for the second edition of the book). Here are a few things that were new and interesting:

  1. Using Flickr to capture Business Card Details. Also tag them so that they are easy to search and make sure you keep them private.
  2. Store fitted bedsheets inside pillowcases. A great idea to save space while packing for moving (which I am doing currently!)
  3. Mirror entire websites using wget. The command is wget -m http://<website-address>
  4. Using Google to look up synonyms.Use "~" next to the keyword you want to look up
  5. Useful Bookmarklets are listed on Lifehacker [2]

I would definitely prefer a PDF edition as the book is worth keeping as a reference. But the Lifehacker post - The Best of Lifehacker (linked above) - already covers most of the book.

Copyright 2008 Divya Manian

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Links:
[1] http://lifehacker.com/366859/the-best-of-lifehacker-in-upgrade-your-life
[2] http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/geek-to-live-ten-musthave-bookmarklets-129141.php