Five Ways to Increase Email Productivity!

POSTED BY Laforge129 on Jul 29 under Email, Lifehacker

As time goes by there are always going to be problems with having Email and being productive.  You can have so much stuff going on in one day it’s not even possible to really have time to thoroughly check your email.  So here are some great steps to get some of your emails done with!!

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What Are You Doing with Your Stimulus Check?

POSTED BY Laforge129 on May 16 under Lifehacker

Unless you made a fistful of cash last year, you’ve got a stimulus check either already in your bank account or on its way. Naturally, the goal of the stimulus package is to add a bit of fuel to the sputtering engine of the U.S. economy, but since no one’s watching to ensure that [...]

IPlist Protects Torrent Traffic in Linux

POSTED BY Laforge129 on May 14 under Lifehacker

Linux only: Free IP-filtering application IPlist protects your BitTorrent downloads from third-party snoopers and blockers by controlling which IP addresses can and cannot connect to your system. The default blacklist installed with IPlist is a pretty good start to protecting your torrent privacy, and an “Update” button adds the latest known addresses with bad juju [...]

What Makes Vista Worth It?

The majority of you told us that you prefer XP to Vista and that it’d be best if Microsoft extended its cutoff date for XP, but we can’t help but wonder if there’s something about Vista that’s worth your while. For those of you who have made the switch—or those who [...]

Disable Windows “Unused Icons” Balloon

POSTED BY Laforge129 on Jan 30 under Lifehacker, WIndows

If you’re sick of Windows taskbar popup balloons prompting you about unused icons on your desktop, fear not—you can shut those down easily. The How To Geek explains that when you uncheck the “Run Desktop cleanup wizard every 60 days” box in your desktop items dialog, you’re good to go with one less irritating [...]

Skip Commercials in Windows Media Center with DVRMSToolbox

POSTED BY Laforge129 on Jan 30 under Lifehacker, WIndows

Windows only: Freeware application DVRMSToolbox analyzes Media Center-recorded files and marks the start and end point of commercials so you can quickly skip over commercials and go straight to the content. Similar to previously mentioned Lifextender in its commercial skipping capabilities, DVRMSToolbox keeps your files in tact and marks the commercials instead of deleting them [...]

Save Ink, Paper, and Money with GreenPrint

POSTED BY Laforge129 on Jan 29 under Lifehacker

Windows only: Save money on ink and paper while helping the environment with GreenPrint World Edition. The freeware version of the otherwise shareware GreenPrint offerings, GreenPrint World Edition identifies and removes unnecessary pages or space—like images you don’t need to waste ink on or pages with lone URLs—from your print jobs. GreenPrint also keeps [...]

Restore Your Data with Time Machine

POSTED BY Laforge129 on Jan 29 under Lifehacker

Of course you know all about Time Machine’s marquee feature—the ability to browse your files back in time—but Blogger James Duncan Davidson details Time machine’s equally-excellent-in-its-simplicity feature: restoring an entire system after a hard drive crash. The process is painless. Simply boot from the Leopard install disc with a fresh hard drive in place of [...]

Add Multiple, Address-Specific HTML Signatures to New Gmail

POSTED BY Laforge129 on Jan 24 under Gmail, Lifehacker

Firefox with Greasemonkey: If the upgrade to the new version of Gmail made you leave your HTML signatures behind, you’re in luck. The Gmail 2.0 Multiple HTML Signatures Greasemonkey user script (wow, that’s a mouthful) can associate rich text signatures to individual addresses in Gmail, and include them above the quoted text in replies. [...]

Find Popular Google Reader Shared Items with ReadBurner

POSTED BY Laforge129 on Jan 21 under Google, Lifehacker

Web site ReadBurner aggregates popular Google Reader Shared Items, turning Google Reader sharing into an action similar to bookmarking a page on Del.icio.us or voting for an article on Digg. Sure you can already share your favorite news items with friends, but by adding your shared items URL to ReadBurner, sharing feeds will also give [...]

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