Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day by Trapani

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  • ISBN: 0470050659
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Pub. Date: December 2006
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Comments from the Seller: Brand New. No remainder mark. Ship daily. Pack carefully. E-mail when shipped. 20B

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Redefine your personal productivity by tweaking, modding, mashing up, and repurposing Web apps, desktop software, and common everyday objects. The 88 "life hacks" -- clever shortcuts and lesser-known, faster ways to complete a task -- in this book are some of the best in Lifehacker.com's online archive. Every chapter describes an overarching lifehacker principle, then segues into several concrete applications. Each hack includes a step-by-step how-to for setting up and using the solution with cross-platform software, detailed screen shots, and sidebars with additional tips. Order your copy today and increase your productivity!

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Gina Trapani is an independent Web programmer and writer whose work has appeared in Wired magazine, The New York Times, and Time magazine. She is the founding editor of Lifehacker.com, a software and productivity Weblog she updates several times daily. A Sun Microsystem–certified Java programmer, Gina builds Web sites and Firefox extensions.

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Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Dayby Anonymous

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01/31/2008: This is a great book if you want to go just below the surface of your PC (Mac or Win) and learn some great things that can make you smarter, faster and better looking. (OK, not better looking but you get the point.) Just the section on e-mail alone is worth the price of admission. Gina has done an outstanding job of making things easy to understand and easy to apply. I was honestly sorry that the book ended so now I go to her website everyday to get information on more hacks. Having just moved to a Mac, I am thinking of now learning how to program. am I one new Geek or what?

Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Dayby Anonymous

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08/11/2007: The clean and green layout of the cover caught my eye, but I definitely bought the book for what was inside. The title means what it says: Following the tips ''hacks'' therein can not only streamline your online experience, but the way you approach handling your time offline as well. I really appreciated the cross-platform approach toward solving some of the annoyances of living a sometimes too-wired life. The author doesn't make assumptions about technical competence or confidence of the reader. Because of that very lack of assumption, jaded geeks may see the book as elementary, while computer newcomers may feel somewhat intimidated by the scope. While I don't intend to incorporate all 88 hacks into my life, I do intend to keep it on my shelf of answer-geek references for the folks who ask me for good tech ideas. There are definitely a lot of them here.


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