Yak Shaving -- [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.
#770 Word Hack -- Tech Recipes explains how to combine two tables (or appending one to another) in Microsoft Word.
#771 URL Hack -- New link shortening service dwarfURL transforms long web link into a tiny, clickable email-friendly URL - and can tell you how many times it was clicked, too. (Also available as a Firefox extension) (HT: Lifehacker)
#772 Gmail Hack -- GmailTo is an extension that forces all ‘mailto’ links to open in GMail.
#773 HowTo -- Sew on a Button
#774 Download of the Week -- Ditto is a clipboard manager that lets you save, manage, and retrieve all of the countless clipboard grabs you make in the course of your day. It lets you bring up it's Quick Paste tool with a handy Ctrl-` shortcut. From there, you can search you clipboards or paste anything with a stroke of the Enter key, a double-click, or a simple drag-and-drop. Ditto supports all kinds of copies, including files, so literally anything you can copy will find a place in this clipboard manager. (HT: Lifehacker)
See also: The Yak Shaving Razor Archives
Have a useful recommendation for making life more pleasant? Send them to me at jpcarter[at]evangelicaloutpost.com.
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