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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
If your work life's all laid out in Gantt charts but you're not happy with the tool you're using, check out Tom's Planner, a web-based project scheduling and collaboration tool.
Tom's Planner
Chart junk? How pictures may help make graphs better
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Those oft-maligned, and highly embellished, graphs and charts in USA Today and other media outlets may actually help people understand data more effectively than traditional graphs, according to new research from North Carolina State University.
Formerly known as "Readability 2," this project uses code unceremoniously lifted from the original Readability . For more information, see the post here . If you're an iPhone user, be sure to check out Clippable Mobile .
Readability Bookmarklet (Take 2)
Send it later
Outlook has in-built support for sending emails at a later date or time, but I’ve had very inconsistent results when using it. As a result, I purchased an add-on called SendLater , which provides a more reliable way to do this.
Seven Guidelines for Writing Worthy Works of Non-Fiction
I try to write the kind of books I'd like to read, and I try to read the kind of books I'd like to write. This isn't as narcissistic as it sounds. I'd like to write like Tolstoy or Alan Moore or Steve Landsburg, but I have to settle for being me.
NirLauncher (beta)
Notice : The latest version of NirLauncher package is now available at http://launcher.nirsoft.net/
Recording your own notes with Google Voice
I found a way a while ago to use Google Voice to record a personal note, transcribe it, and email it to me. A recent Lifehacker post "Five Things We'd Like to See in Google Voice" lists that need as their #5 request, so I realized what I'd figured out is not common knowledge.
Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more !
Bulk Rename Utility
Inefficient Journal Submission Policies
In their instructions to authors just about all of the economics journals require that papers be submitted with a certain format for the references, bibliography, figures and so forth.You probably use the address bar in your browser to search web pages. Now learn how to use the address bar to capture screenshots, send emails, download videos or even shorten the URLs. You are already familiar with quite a few browser address bar shortcuts.
Send Commands from the Browser's Address Bar
Windows only: ClipChain allows you to copy many strings of text from different places in one document or from multiple applications to form a text chain which can be pasted where you need it to go.
ClipChain Copies Multiple Text Strings for Easy Pasting
BlueScreenView
Related UtilitiesIt feels like the 18th century all over again. All that daily correspondence, all those long hours spent hunched over a desk, composing some thoughtful missive about one's dowry or the Jacobite rebellions.