#370 Firefox Hack -- Next time you're looking to buy a book online, don't waste your time searching for the lowest price - let your browser do the work for you. The Book Burro extension is a Web 2.0 extension for Firefox. When it senses your are looking at a page that contains a book, it will overlay a small panel which when opened lists prices at online bookstores such as Amazon, Buy, Half.com (and many more).
#371 Office Supply Hack -- Need a to take a measurement but don't have a ruler handy? Just go to this link and get an “actual size” printable ruler. (HT: LifeHacker)
#373 Know Your Fallacies -- Overwhelming Exception -- a generalization which is accurate, but comes with one or more qualifications which eliminate so many cases that what remains is much less impressive than the initial statement might have led one to assume. (Example: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" (The attempted implication (fallaciously false in this case) is that the Romans did nothing for us). This is a quotation from Monty Python's Life of Brian.)
#374 Useful Utility -- OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. You'll generally get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first. (HT: LifeHacker)
#375 HowTo -- Trace an email.
#376 IPod Hack -- In Powerpoint you can save a presentation as a series of image files. Open your presentation in PowerPoint and go to File > Save As. Save As a jpeg file.Powerpoint will automatically create a folder and put all the slides in a folder as JPG images. (HT: Scott from The Fat Triplets)
- Filename is optional. No need to think of a unique filename to save under—just enter your content and go.
- Search all your past files at once.
- Spell-checking on demand.
- Load/save your text files from any computer in the world.
- Cross-platform—you can access it from any make or model of machine, as long as you can get online with a web browser.
- Undo Discard. Ever wish you could retrieve your file after closing it without saving? Now you can.
This technique works pretty well—and now that Gmail has rich-text editing capabilities, it has become even more powerful. Because you might be using the Drafts folder for things other than stored notes, you might like to assign the mail a label.
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About the GMail thing, there's already a site on the web that will act as a notepad for you. I use it for my blog, recipies, shopping lists, and just when I find a weird quote that I want to remember later on.
It's at ImaNoteTaker.com
;o)
posted on 02.01.2006 3:10 PM2
I thought the overwhelming exception was better classed as a certain kind of humor. No one actually uses it in debate unless they intend to argue the opposite of what they are actually saying, do they?
posted on 02.01.2006 3:18 PM3
#370 -- Another good extension is RUSure?, which also checks multiple websites on a range of products to find the lowest price.
posted on 02.01.2006 8:00 PM4
Joe,
On the iPod and Powerpoint hack. The one thing that isn't clear from your post is why that is an iPod hack. You need to import the slides / JPEGs into your iPod and with the apple A/V cable you can show a slide show from your iPod. Maybe now an iPod is a legit business expense??
Thanks for the HT.
Scott
posted on 02.02.2006 12:41 PM