#250 Cell Phone Finder -- Comparison shopping for a cell phone that meets all of your needs can be a real hassle. Make the search easier with the Cell Phone Finder. Input your zip code and it will show you all of the providers in the area and the brands of phones that they carry. You can also select options like phone design, color, data access, Bluetooth, camera resolution and text messaging. Cell Phone Finder then displays the phones that meet your needs, making it simple to select the one that's right for you. (HT: LifeHacker)
#251 Podcast Watch -- Several colleges and universities are making lectures available as podcasts. Productive Strategies has a useful list of podcast lectures from Purdue, Washington College of Law, Harvard, and more.
#252 Copy-and-Paste Hack -- One of the most frequently used ways to prevent copying text from websites is to use javascript to disable the ability to right-click. But with a little javascript you can turn that function back on. Simply type the following into the URL bar of your browser: javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null) (HT: LifeHack)
#253 Know Your Fallacies -- Begging the Question (petitio principii) The truth of the conclusion is assumed by the premises. Often, the conclusion is simply restated in the premises in a slightly different form. In more difficult cases, the premise is a consequence of the conclusion. (We know that God exists, since the Bible says God exists. What the Bible says must be true, since God wrote it and God never lies. (Here, we must agree that God exists in order to believe that God wrote the Bible.))
#254 Firefox Extension -- Some online forums and boards provide very small text areas for new postings. If you type a longer posting, you have to scroll up and down, to read, what you've written. But the Resizeable Text Area extension allows you to control the size and adjust it to the size you need.
#255 HowTo -- Snatch an Expiring Domain
#256 PowerPoint Tip -- When in the slide show, you can directly jump to the page by pressing the page number and then the enter key. For example, if you have to go back to page 24, just type “24 + Enter” instead of hitting the arrow keys. Just remember key slides by page numbers and you can go back and forth between them with ease. This is especially effective in the Q&A session when you need to stress your point showing certain key slides. (HT: LifeHack)
#257 SoYouWanna -- Host a Wedding Shower
#258 Email Tool -- The Email Icon Generator provides a safe way to display your email address (like this:
) for GMail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo!, AOL and many other common services. #259 Writer's Toolkit -- #18: Internal Cliffhangers
See also: The Yak Shaving Razor Archives
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Unknown Professor writes:
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You can also bring up a list of your Powerpoint slides by right clicking. This is more helpful if you have slide titles and they're somehwat descriptive.
posted on 11.02.2005 7:30 AM