charts
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Apostrophe.me Ends Your Apostrophe Ponderings
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’ve ever paused mid-stroke and thought “Does this need an apostrophe?” you’ll want to take a peek at the apostrophe-use flowchart at Apostrophe.me for a cartoon-driven refresher. More »
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Disciplanner Makes Tracking And Assessing Your Goals Simple
7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re interested in tracking your goals and habits in the long term but you’re not so interested in messing around with overly complicated tracking schemes and tools, Disciplanner is a simple and easy to configure tracking tool. More »
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iSleepDiary Tracks Your Sleep Patterns And Quality
6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’ve been waking up feeling like you might have been fighting off a zombie horde in your sleep, it might be time to start tracking your sleep patterns to get to the bottom of things. More »
Work
Google Docs Beefs Up Its Response-Gathering Forms
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | If you like your Google Docs enough to use them as a public or semi-private polling tool, Google has added a grid-style question selection form, made the results charts cleaner and prettier, and now allows form owners to pre-populate fields with example data, along with adding bi-direcitonal language support. Know of a great use for Google Docs’ forms? Tell us in the comments. [Official Google Docs Blog]
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Computer Repair Flowchart Troubleshoots Hardware Problems
8:00AM Azadeh Ensha | We recently showed you a fun (but accurate) tech support cheat sheet courtesy of popular web comic xkcd. If hardware is more your problem, this series of interactive charts can help you troubleshoot some common hardware problems. More »
Design
When To Use Bar Charts Instead Of Pie Charts
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Pie charts look cooler than other kinds of charts. They’re based on pie, after all, and seem less accountant-like than bars, bubbles and lines. They are, however, often a very wrong way to represent subtle but important differences. More »
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Tech Support Cheat Sheet Reveals The Secrets Of Troubleshooting
11:30AM Adam Pash | If you read Lifehacker, chances are you’ve been designated as your family’s de facto IT person, and you’ve probably spent more than your fair share of hours troubleshooting applications you know no better than the person asking. How do you do it?! More »
Work
The Computer Hardware Chart Identifies Your PC’s Parts
1:30AM Adam Pash | Whether you’re a first-time computer builder or a seasoned pro, deviantART user Sonic480’s computer hardware poster, which helps you identify countless different types of hard drives, RAM, ports, CPU sockets, power connectors and more, is a great reference. More »
Design
Geek Chart Graphs Turns Web Activity Into A Pie Chart
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re looking for a novel way to represent and visualise your online persona, Geek Chart takes your activity on popular sites and turns it into an interactive pie chart. More »
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