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Category Archives: Tools
Google Tasks in a Chrome Browser Sidebar
A while ago, I pointed you to several ways to access Google Tasks. Google’s super-simple task-management app has been flexible enough (and syncronizingly-smooth enough) for me to douse all other-comers from taking over my task-management flow. In February, I noted … Continue reading
Posted in code, Geek, Google, lifehack, Productivity, root, Tools Tagged browser, google, googletasks, google_chrome, gtasks, tasks 4 Comments
Ignoring Telemarketers With GoogleVoice
Google Voice enables pretty intelligent call routing. One of the excellent features enables you to add contacts to your address book right from the web interface online… this is the same contacts list available in your gmail account which keeps … Continue reading
Posted in Apps, lifehack, Productivity, Tools Tagged google, Google Voice, telemarketers, telephone Leave a comment
GroupMe Kinda Rocks Me
Summary: Text all your friends at once with this platform-agnostic group-messaging app. Feeling a little chatty? Call everyone by just dialing the group’s number. GroupMe just makes close group communication easy. Like twitter before it, my favorite bit of this … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Apps, Networking, next, Tools Tagged group messaging, GroupMe, sms, Social Networking, twitter Leave a comment
Google Docs Updates Document Interface
This week, Google Docs has rolled out a refresh to how it lists and shows you documents, files, images, videos and more in your docs pane. For a year or so, you could put any document, presentation, image or file … Continue reading
Posted in Apps, Collaboration, Google, photos, Tools, video Tagged cloud, cloud computing, google, google_docs, media, photos, security, sharing, video Leave a comment
Wishlist: ‘Save As…’ Google Documents Into a Folder
Google Docs has come a long way. Now, with folders and folder-sharing and other great collaboration techniques, the experience has dramatically improved over last while. But one thing really hurts my productivity, and I have (sadly) learned to work around … Continue reading
Posted in Apps, Collaboration, Google, lifehack, Productivity, Wishlist Tagged #wishwed, collaboration, google, google_apps, google_docs, lifehack, sharing, wishlist, wishlist_wednesday Leave a comment
Picasa Photos Need Easier Sharing #wishwed
Picasa is Google‘s great photo editing and sharing app. It makes ridiculously quick work out of acquiring images from your camera, sorting them, letting you crop/edit/touch them up, and share them by email or post on-line or blog. But in … Continue reading
Posted in Apps, Collaboration, Google, lifehack, media, photos, Productivity, Tools, Wishlist Tagged #wishwed, family, photos, picasa, picture, sharing, wishlist, wishlist_wednesday 8 Comments
Chase Mobile Banking App Goes Android
My App-day-Monday post this week gives a shout out to Chase Bank (J.P. Morgan Chase, if you’re not on a first-name basis) for updating their mobile app cache to include an android app. Other mobile operating systems are “iPhone ®,, … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Apps, lifehack, Productivity, Tools Tagged #appmon, Android, app, banking, blackberry, Chase, ipad, iphone, mobile Leave a comment
The 5 People I Wish Used Tungle Online Calendaring #wishwed
I have talked before about Tungle, the easy-as-email online calendaring application from a cool startup based out of Montreal. My Tungle account goes everywhere with me, and is literally an integral part of my professional and personal life. Thanks to … Continue reading
Posted in Apps, Collaboration, Productivity, Tools, Wishlist Tagged #wishwed, Apps, online_calendaring, sharing, Social Networking, tungle, wishlist, wishlist_wednesday 13 Comments
Mute People or Hashtags on Twitter — Wishlist Wednesday
My wishlist this week is to have a way to mute a user or hashtag on twitter for a certain period of time to just avoid conversations that you don’t want to be involved in. For example, I love sports, … Continue reading
Posted in code, Collaboration, lifehack, Productivity, Twitter, Wishlist Tagged #wishwed, conversation, hashtag, mute, twitter, wishlist, wishlist_wednesday 1 Comment
I bought SwiftKey
I posted previously about the SwiftKey keyboard for android phones. My 14 day free trial expired yesterday and I missed the functionality so much I paid the 4 dollars to upgrade. I’m actully posting now using the SwiftKey voice input … Continue reading