Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day

Average customer rating: 4.5

All those tricks can easilly found in internet
Outstanding list of common sense ideas
Stuff that actually useful
Lifechanger!
Good collection of hacks

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Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day
Gina Trapani
Manufacturer: Wiley
Product Group: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0470050659

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Book Description

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!

Customer Reviews:

All those tricks can easilly found in internet.......2007-06-08

Well, that's it, i've purchased a book that is giving me tricks that or i allready know or can be very use to find if needed. So, it is not worth at all...

Outstanding list of common sense ideas.......2007-06-01

The thing about common sense is that it is not common... That's why when you pick up this book (regardless of your professional experience or proficiency with computers) you will discover many things that, once explained, will generate that "ahah!" moment and start you thinking: "Why didn't I think of that?".

If you follow some of the hacks in the book you might just never again:

- Lose your keys
- Come out of a meeting without understanding who's doing what and with little recollection of what was actually discussed
- Lose your data
- Waste time during the most productive part of your day
- "Invent" the content of your timesheets because you just cannot remember what you did

Let's face it... even if you only pick up and effectively adopt 2-3 of the hacks in here, the book has more than paid for itself.

On top of all that, the narrative is easy-going and entertaining. Gina Trapani has done a fantastic job with this.

What are you waiting for??? Buy it now!!! (Trust me you will be thanking me, the other reviewers and Gina in no time)

Stuff that actually useful.......2007-05-15

Almost all the tips in this book had relevance to my daily productivity as a Software Engineer. If you have any confidence in your computer skills and you want to be a more efficient person, buy this book!

Lifechanger!.......2007-04-19

All right, it might be a *bit* strong to say this book changed my life, but it is undeniably true that it -- and the website associated with it -- have led to some important modifications in the way I work. And that's very close to the same thing.

If you are content with the factory settings your computer was delivered with, it might not be evident to you why this book can have such an impact. But if you like playing around with your technology and adapting it to your own needs and preferences, then you might just get a lot out of it. Part of the reason I think I responded so strongly to this is that my personality aligns pretty closely with the "characteristics of a lifehacker" described in the Introduction: excelling at finding things on the web; "addicted to the 'Ah-HA!' moments in life; eager to go out of their way to avoid tedious or mundane work. Curiosity, efficiency, individuality, technology.

Many of the "hacks" here have to do with fundamental processes like managing email, automating the things you do over and over, or getting your stuff (paper and electronic) in order and making yourself more productive. Some of it is basic, like how to use RSS feeds, but other hacks require a moderate degree of programming ability. Readers who use a computer with any degree of regularity shouldn't be intimidated by this, however. As someone who for years has had to fill out a timesheet as part of my job, the few minutes it took to master Hack 63 ("Quick-Log Your Work Day") have already been repaid over and over again. Gina, where were you in 1996?

Over the last few months, I've read a number of the "Hacks" books from O'Reilly Media -- "Mind Hacks," "Mind Performance Hacks," "Firefox Hacks," and the like. Those are all okay, but none of them were as easy to read, easy to master, or as immediately applicable as "Lifehacker" has been. Maybe not everyone fits the "lifehacker" profile, or would respond to this book with the enthusiasm I obviously have. But I bet most anyone who uses a computer for work or recreation (including buying books online?) would find at least one new way to put technology to work making them less harried, more productive, or just ... happier.

Good collection of hacks.......2007-03-25

Inspired by Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, this book is not to be read from cover to cover. Its contents are to be browsed and chewed on. Then, when you're ready, you pick one or two hacks to introduce into your life. Some are a bit trite--get rid of HTML mail, use text mail--while others are a bit inspired--the todo script/application. All hacks are easy to understand, but some do not apply all the time (when only Windows versions are provided) to Mac users. Regardless, a good book overall.

For continuing content, go to the Lifehacker web site (I'd include the link, but it's not allowed). It's not as polished, but it nonetheless is up-to-date.

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