How to Hack Your Life
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The document is an introduction to various technology and web resources aimed at improving productivity, organization, and enjoyment in daily life, primarily focusing on free applications. It lists tools for tasks such as news aggregation, travel planning, online storage, finance management, and social networking. The author, Professor Glenn Platt, encourages the use of these resources to 'hack' one’s life, making it easier and more efficient.
How to Hack Your Life
- 1. How To Hack Your Life An Introduction to Technology and Web Resources to Make Your Life Easier, Cheaper, and More Productive Monday, March 1, 2010
- 2. How To Hack Your Life Prof. Glenn Platt C. Michael Armstrong Chair in Interactive Media Professor of Marketing Monday, March 1, 2010
- 3. There Will Be No Lecture Monday, March 1, 2010
- 4. Today’s Plan We will load a series of different web applications, and software. You will learn how these tools can be used to make your life more productive, organized and enjoyable. Nearly all of these are free. Monday, March 1, 2010
- 5. News Google Reader Newsmap Bloglines Monday, March 1, 2010
- 6. Travel Routes Bing.com/Maps Waze Monday, March 1, 2010
- 7. Bookmarks Delicious Diigo Monday, March 1, 2010
- 8. To-Do Remember the Milk Jott Monday, March 1, 2010
- 9. Online Storage Dropbox Box.net Monday, March 1, 2010
- 10. Backup Mozy iDrive Monday, March 1, 2010
- 11. Travel TripIt Kayak Mobissimo Monday, March 1, 2010
- 12. Music Listening Pandora Last.fm Rhapsody Shazam/Soundhound (iPhone) Monday, March 1, 2010
- 13. Audio & Video Creation Audacity Jaycut Pixorial Monday, March 1, 2010
- 14. Finance Mint Thrive Monday, March 1, 2010
- 15. Video Hulu AT&T Entertainment Netflix Instant Queue VLC Monday, March 1, 2010
- 16. Text Expanders Autohotkey TextExpander Monday, March 1, 2010
- 17. Images Flickr Picassa Aviary Photoshop Eye-Fi Monday, March 1, 2010
- 18. Blogs Wordpress Typepad Blogger Monday, March 1, 2010
- 19. Keystroke Launcher Slickrun/Dash/Colibri (PC) Google Quicksearch Box (Mac) Monday, March 1, 2010
- 20. Office+ Google Docs Zoho Open Office Monday, March 1, 2010
- 21. Project Management Basecamp Copper Monday, March 1, 2010
- 22. Meetings Doodle Tungle Monday, March 1, 2010
- 23. Remote Access Logmein VNC Monday, March 1, 2010
- 24. Web Meetings DimDim GoToMeeting WebEx Monday, March 1, 2010
- 25. Phone GoogleVoice Skype Trufone Fring Monday, March 1, 2010
- 26. Social Network Ning GoingOn OneSite Monday, March 1, 2010
- 27. Homepage Netvibes iGoogle Monday, March 1, 2010
- 28. Social Media Seesmic Desktop Tweetdeck Flock Monday, March 1, 2010
- 29. Browser Sync Weaver XMarks Monday, March 1, 2010
- 30. Shared Caring Lotsahelpinghands Kickstarter Kiva Monday, March 1, 2010
- 31. Video Screen Capture ScreenToaster Jingproject Monday, March 1, 2010
- 32. Password Management 1Password (Mac) Roboform (PC) Monday, March 1, 2010
- 33. Notes Evernote Zoho Notebook Monday, March 1, 2010
- 34. Find Food Yelp UrbanSpoon Zagats Monday, March 1, 2010
- 35. 35 All Of These Links Can Be Found At: http://tinyurl.com/hacklife I Can Be Found At: glenn.platt@muohio.edu Monday, March 1, 2010