How Can I Sync Bookmarks Across All Browsers? [Ask Lifehacker]

August 3, 2009

Dear Lifehacker, How can I sync favorites in Opera, IE7, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox? Is there any way to do it, beside manually export everyone and then painfully editing the HTML?
Best Regards from a Daily Reader
Dear Daily Reader,
For Firefox and Internet Explorer, at least, we’ll whole-heartedly recommend the newly IE-friendly and Safari-friendly Foxmarks. It doesn’t [...]

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Hotsync For Palm PRE – Finally!

July 15, 2009

     This literally makes me so excited I just forgot everything else I was doing.
     I’ve been wanting a Palm Pre for various reasons, the browser, the coolness factor, and also because my current Palm is starting to die. But I rely heavily on several Palm apps for my daily activities.
     The news that MotionApps will include [...]

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Google Finds Creative Commons – “frickin’ Sweet”

July 10, 2009

     How many times have you blogged or done anything that required you finding pics on the internet, and you didn’t want to have to worry about Copyrights.
That’s what Creative Commons is all about.
     Prevoiusly I would just search Flickr which works great.  But NOW, Google will search it all for you,  Flickr and others alike.
To enable [...]

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Press This 404 issue in WordPress

July 10, 2009

     I’m really getting into sharing articles and things I find on the web with others.  Obviously I blog about things, but that also gets imported into my Facebook account.  In addition, I often use a Share On Facebook bookmarklet to grab cool stuff and share that on Facebook as well.  Recently I even connected my [...]

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WordPress remote posting using XMLRPC – to DRAFT

July 7, 2009

     I don’t know why this was so difficult to find, and in the end I figured it out myself.
     If you use Wordpress and make posts using the XMLRPC, you may be interested in setting the status. For example I use Jott quite a bit to capture an idea for a post on the go [...]

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Your E-Mail Inbox is sacred

July 5, 2009

     Following the mantra of GTD and other sources, your e-mail inbox should be a sacred realm where only the “new” is allowed to reside. This concept became clear to me once I finally managed to zero out my Inbox. For years old emails had festered in my Inbox, reminding me not of things [...]

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Vonage – New Age Phone Service

July 2, 2009

     I’ve been using Vonage now for several years and while the initial idea of VOIP at home had me a little apprehensive, Vonage has turned out to be a great investment.
Here are some of the features I use:

SimulRing – this allows an incoming call to ring not just the Vonage line, but any other phone [...]

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Palm Pre …mium Excitement

June 26, 2009

The Palm Pre has been out for awhile now, exclusively from Sprint. As a long time Palm fan, I’m going on my sixth Palm device over a ten year span, I was hoping beyond hope that Palm would pull their proverbial head out of their nethers and get something going. So far I [...]

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Evernote Collaboratory Excitement Ensues

June 25, 2009

     Evernote announced today that they are beginning their long promised collaboration features.  Evernote, which I use heavily as my personal wiki replacement, allows on the fly clipping of web pages and articles, and is a great location for all my notes, pics, and just about any digital piece of information I can throw in there.
     But [...]

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Do the Taskbar Shuffle

June 19, 2009

Taskbar Shuffle is a great little FREE productivity program I ran across. Ironically, it’s not necessarily designed as a productivity app per se, it’s simply to drag and thereby arrange and move your open windows in the taskbar to different places.
As you can see, I often open several windows at a time, and also often [...]

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