Productivity
Productivity

BarTab-Inspired Chrome Extension FooTab Boosts Browser’s Startup Speed

BarTab is a popular add-on for Firefox, preventing tabs from a previous session from loading until you activate them. Anyone who keeps 20+ tabs open knows the primordial sadness of watching one’s browser struggle with the load of restoring such a large number of tabs simultaneously. Now, Chrome users can enjoy the benefits of the add-on with an extension called FooTab.

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Twipster Strips Twitter’s Cluttered Interface Down To The Essentials

Safari/Chrome: If Twitter’s web interface is a little too busy for your liking, Twipster converts it into a minimal and responsive list of tweets, with none of the clutter.

18 May 2013

Productivity

Grab Notes App Bluenote For $0.99 And Monitor Manager Multimon For $1.99

Mac: Two great Mac apps are on sale at a deep discount today. The secure note-taking app Bluenote is just $0.99, on sale from $10.49 and the multiple monitor manager Multimon is on sale for $1.99 from $10.49.

Productivity

The ChargeCard Charges Your Phone, Fits In Your Wallet

The ChargeCard is a tiny, credit-card sized USB charging card that slips into a pocket or fits into your wallet, ensuring you’re never without a USB cable for data or power. If you’ve ever wished you had a USB cable handy or had to borrow someone else’s charger, this gadget is for you.

17 May 2013

Productivity

Dictionary Of Numbers Puts Large Numbers Into Easy-To-Understand Terms

Chrome: When you’re reading articles that have a lot of big numbers in them it can be hard to actually wrap you mind around what those numbers mean. A figure like “342,234 acres” doesn’t really mean much to most of us; Dictionary of Numbers is a Chrome extension that turns those numbers into terms we can understand.

Productivity

See The Size Of All Your Folders In OS X’s Finder

Mac: By default, the Finder’s list view only shows you the size of individual files — not of folders. This small, somewhat hidden setting will calculate the size of entire folders so you can see where all your data is.

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Recent Menu Puts All Your Recent Files And Apps In Your Mac Menubar

Mac: Recent Menu is an app that sits in your menubar and offers up all your recently accessed files, folders and apps so you can get to them quickly.

Productivity

TouchPal Wave Types Sentences The Way Other Keyboards Type Words

Android: TouchPal Wave is the latest beta for the TouchPal Keyboard (which we’ve mentioned before). Wave combines gesture typing and predictive text to let you type out entire sentences in the time you would spend typing words with other keyboards, all with fewer errors.

Productivity

‘The Only Way To Ever Do Anything New Is To Step Into Uncertainty’

I heard this comment from neuroscientist Dr Beau Lotto at the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit earlier this week, but as a call to embrace fearlessness it’s all too evident. New ideas don’t emerge from the comfortable and familiar. You have to embrace the unknown.

Productivity

Ask LH: How Can I Take My PowerPoint Presentations From Dull To Amazing?

Dear Lifehacker, I have been tasked to make a slideshow for an event at work. I don’t want to produce a generic PowerPoint with just boring text or pictures. What are some ways I can enhance the slideshow so it looks impressive and knocks the socks off my audience? Sincerely, Panicking About PPT

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