Friday, June 13, 2008
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iBreadCrumbs Keeps Your Web Research Together
11:10PM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’ve ever grown sincerely sick of the “Save Page As” prompt in your browser, iBreadCrumbs might be just the tool to gather your disconnected web research together. The free service installed a toolbar in Firefox (sorry, Firefox 3 adopters, it’s not updated quite yet) that offers a simple “Play” button. Hit it, and every page you visit while it’s “recording” is saved to your iBreadCrumbs page. When you head back there, you can annotate, combine, and invite others to check out the material you ran across during your web wanderings. There’s obviously tools like Del.icio.us and other link-snaggers for those comfortable with them, but iBreadCrumbs is geared toward those who’ll be really happy to see that obscure web page they forgot to take a note of. The iBreadCrumbs toolbar is a free download, works wherever Firefox (2) does. iBreadCrumbs [via Download Squad] More »
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Share Printers Between Windows and Linux the Easy Way
10:41PM Kevin Purdy | A clarity-minded Ubuntu Forums user has written up simple, but effective, instructions on how to share a printer, and trade files, from a Windows machine with a Linux device, and the other way around. These steps are pretty much how I reached my own “Eureka!” moment when I finally got a Windows XP laptop printing and swapping data with a Linux-powered spare computer-turned-printer-server. Hit (and, likely, print) the link below for a rewarding weekend project, or just incentive to mess around with Linux in one of your older systems. Easiest way to share files & printers with Windows [Ubuntu Forums] More »
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Final Firefox 3 State of the Add-ons Report
9:00PM Gina Trapani | The clock’s ticking down till Tuesday June 17th, when the final version of Firefox 3 will be ready to download—and there’s big progress on the add-ons compatibility front. Mozilla product manager Alex Polvi reports big news this week: Greasemonkey and Del.icio.us Bookmarks are both officially Firefox 3-compatible, and hot on their heels is Tab Mix Plus, and Firebug, which have compatible versions slated to hit the official Add-ons site this weekend. If you’re planning to help Mozilla set a Guinness World Record when you download Firefox 3 on Tuesday, you can also throw or attend a Firefox party while you’re at it. More »
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8:03PM Angus Kidman | OK, we know that the weekend shouldn’t be for work, but having ran a couple of suggestions about ways you might go about asking for a pay rise this week, the time is ripe to put some serious planning into it. If you’re happy with your job but feel you deserve more, work out just how much more. If you’re sure there’s not much extra money, think about asking for better conditions such as working from home. If you’re in a very high-demand industry, look at trading off options such as avoiding sick days for better pay. And if you’re not happy with your job, spend some time on Saturday morning scouting out new options!
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Something for the weekend: Plan for that pay rise
8:03PM Angus Kidman | OK, we know that the weekend shouldn’t be for work, but having ran a couple of suggestions about ways you might go about asking for a pay rise this week, the time is ripe to put some serious planning into it. If you’re happy with your job but feel you deserve more, work out just how much more. If you’re sure there’s not much extra money, think about asking for better conditions such as working from home. If you’re in a very high-demand industry, look at trading off options such as avoiding sick days for better pay. And if you’re not happy with your job, spend some time on Saturday morning scouting out new options!
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3:38PM Angus Kidman | When I woke up this morning, the main power circuit in my house had died. This was bad news for my wallet and my productivity, as the power didn’t get restored until 2pm and I had a bunch of work to do. I had two laptops — a fully-charged ThinkPad and a half-charged Eee PC — and a wireless broadband card. Would they last until the electrician finished doing strange things in my bathroom?While it sucks being without power for an extended period, there’s an upside: it really makes you focus on what tasks you need to get done and what power management options you have.
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Switch off the power for real power planning
3:38PM Angus Kidman | When I woke up this morning, the main power circuit in my house had died. This was bad news for my wallet and my productivity, as the power didn’t get restored until 2pm and I had a bunch of work to do. I had two laptops — a fully-charged ThinkPad and a half-charged Eee PC — and a wireless broadband card. Would they last until the electrician finished doing strange things in my bathroom?While it sucks being without power for an extended period, there’s an upside: it really makes you focus on what tasks you need to get done and what power management options you have.
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3:01PM Angus Kidman | Our final Upgrade Your Life contest winner comes from Duane E, who came up with a neat way to develop an AutoHotKey script for searching multiple sites in Firefox with a selected keyword from any applications. Details on how to implement it in Duane’s own words after the jump.
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Upgrade Your Life winner #3: Automate site searches with hotkeys
3:01PM Angus Kidman | Our final Upgrade Your Life contest winner comes from Duane E, who came up with a neat way to develop an AutoHotKey script for searching multiple sites in Firefox with a selected keyword from any applications. Details on how to implement it in Duane’s own words after the jump.
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2:43PM Angus Kidman | There’s two job vacancies currently going at Allure Media, which publishes Lifehacker amongst many other fine sites (OK, we’ll name ‘em: Defamer, Gizmodo, Kotaku). We need an administrative and editorial assistant for the office (a great gig if you’re looking to get your foot in the door of the publishing industry), and an editor for our forthcoming parenting and babies blog (a great gig if you want to get back into the publishing industry after having kids). Details and applications links below; don’t be shy!
Administrative and editorial assistant Parenting and babies editor
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Want a job with Lifehacker’s publisher?
2:43PM Angus Kidman | There’s two job vacancies currently going at Allure Media, which publishes Lifehacker amongst many other fine sites (OK, we’ll name ‘em: Defamer, Gizmodo, Kotaku). We need an administrative and editorial assistant for the office (a great gig if you’re looking to get your foot in the door of the publishing industry), and an editor for our forthcoming parenting and babies blog (a great gig if you want to get back into the publishing industry after having kids). Details and applications links below; don’t be shy!
Administrative and editorial assistant Parenting and babies editor
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2:30PM Angus Kidman | Apparently, it’s now so hard to get construction workers in the Northern Territory some employers are paying staff a $100 a week bonus not to take sickies. The Northern Territory News reports that paying money to ensure people don’t take Monday off for fishing or drinking has proved necessary to prevent a labour shortage. Is this supply and demand in action, a sensible compromise, or an assault on the time-honoured Aussie sickie tradition? Let us know what you think — and any good sickie deals you’ve managed — in the comments.NT workers’ no-sickie bonus
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Should you get paid a sickie bonus?
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Apparently, it’s now so hard to get construction workers in the Northern Territory some employers are paying staff a $100 a week bonus not to take sickies. The Northern Territory News reports that paying money to ensure people don’t take Monday off for fishing or drinking has proved necessary to prevent a labour shortage. Is this supply and demand in action, a sensible compromise, or an assault on the time-honoured Aussie sickie tradition? Let us know what you think — and any good sickie deals you’ve managed — in the comments.NT workers’ no-sickie bonus
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12:46PM Angus Kidman | A new article in Business Week looks at
a familiar and not very convincing theme — the amount that
time-wasting and stuffing around can cost a business. But in an
unexpected twist, it also looks at how technologies can also be used
to help prioritise our activities at work, assessing the potential
cost to productivity of a given interruption and perhaps sending an
IM for truly urgent and useful tasks. It’s an interesting concept,
even if you can’t help thinking that no human being could be expected
to be productive 100% of the time whatever the state of their office
Internet connection,
May We Have Your Attention, Please?
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Could more messages stop you wasting time?
12:46PM Angus Kidman | A new article in Business Week looks at
a familiar and not very convincing theme — the amount that
time-wasting and stuffing around can cost a business. But in an
unexpected twist, it also looks at how technologies can also be used
to help prioritise our activities at work, assessing the potential
cost to productivity of a given interruption and perhaps sending an
IM for truly urgent and useful tasks. It’s an interesting concept,
even if you can’t help thinking that no human being could be expected
to be productive 100% of the time whatever the state of their office
Internet connection,
May We Have Your Attention, Please?
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