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How To Kill Time Productively On Your Phone RealSimple’s web site rounds up tips from readers on how they keep clutter out of their homes, and one reader in particular has a pretty clever way of both keeping their closet organised and avoiding that indecisive moment when you wonder if you’ve already worn that same shirt this week: I reorganised my clothes closet so that all outfits are grouped together… I just grab the first outfit on the right side and put it on. At the end of the day, I hang the clothes up on the left side. This way, all my clothes are rotated, so I wear them all and never overwear my favourites.
Google Presentations, the oft-neglected PowerPoint-like slide creator in the Google Docs suite, just received a few upgrades to its functionality and design tools. The most interesting is the ability to export Presentation files as PDFs—still not all the way to PowerPoint exporting yet, but it’s an option that makes Presentations a file conversion tool for non-MS-Office-havers and a convenient option for both getting paper copies on the go and possibly cut-and-pasting single slides into PowerPoint. Presentations also received the ability to add pre-defined shapes, which should be a boon to the flowchart fans among us.
We can’t stop adding features! [Official Google Docs Blog via Google Blogoscoped]Windows only: Google has released a simple one-purpose application that lets you upload multiple documents at once to a Google Docs account, as well as add right-click uploading options for all the document types accepted by the free online office suit. Before the free app’s release, meant to show off the Google Docs API, your best bet for posting multiple files was through email, but even that had a 500KB size restriction and only worked with certain document types. Not much more to say—it’s a simple, effective tool, and it seems to work pretty quickly. Google Docs Uploader is a free download for Windows only and requires .NET Framework 2.0.
Google Docs Uploader [Google Data API Blog via Google Operating System]We’ve previously pointed out ways to grab just the text from a PDF by emailing Adobe and using desktop apps, but having a web-based solution bookmarked could be pretty helpful as well. PDFTextOnline is a free, no-registration web app that quickly accepts files and pushes them to plain text, available for copying or saving as a .txt file. The added bonus is being able to change both the font and layout style of the exported text, along with access the bookmarks and properties from the original PDF. The web app claims to handle a number of foreign languages and fonts, so it might make for a good go-to-go solution if your PDF just won’t open anywhere else.
PDFTextOnline [via MakeUseOf.com]If you’ve ever tried to slim down Windows’ memory usage by killing unnecessary processes, you’ve likely encountered the vague, too-scary-to-kill “svchost.exe.” It’s technically a generic name for processes running from those .DLL files scattered all around, but what you really want to know is whether you can give all of them the axe. The How-To Geek blog details following those generic entries to the services they run under, using both Vista’s Task Manager and previously featured freeware Process Explorer. The performance boost from each process ticked off is usually minimal, but move through a few and you end up with a little more memory for the stuff that matters. For help identifying other non-sensical process names, take a look at TaskList.org
What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running? [The How-To Geek]
