Life Hacking
Pennsylvania Library Association – College & Research Division
May 27th, 2009
http://www.librarystuff.net/palalifehacking
Steven M. Cohen
Steven@lawlib.com
917-837-9706
What is Life Hacking?
TinyURL – Make long URL’s Shorter
Bug Me Not – Don’t sign up.
PDf me Not – View PDFs without Adobe
CiteBite – Cite to parts of a page
Awesome Highlighter – Highlight and send web pages
PDF Escape – Annotate PDFs
Addictomatic – One stop shop for buzz
Greasemonkey – All sorts of neat scripts
Twitter in Google Results – So cool!
PDF Creator – Printer driver to print to PDF
Cool Previews – Browser inside a browser
Deepest Sender – Wordpress Posting Tool
Ping.fm – Update all of your apps at once.
Page 2 RSS – Create RSS Feeds for pages that don’t have them
Fireshot – Another screengrabbing tool
Update Scanner – Notification of new content
Watch That Page – E-mail updates of new content
You Tube RSS Trick – Create RSS Feeds for You Tube content
Dapper – Create your own RSS feeds.
Convotrack – Keep Track of the entire conversation
GovTrack/ – Use RSS to Track the Government
Kwout – Create a widget for a part of a page
Download Them All – Multiple downloads
Picnik – Edit images.
Auction Bloopers – Misspellings on E-bay
RSS Auction/ – RSS feeds for E-bay searches
Amazon RSS – RSS Feeds for Amazon Wishlists
RSS Mix – Mix multiple RSS feeds
Ad Block Plus – Block Ads in FireFox
ScreenGrab – Save parts of a page as an image.
Compfight – An easier way to search for images.
Google Groups/ – Underestimated as a research tool.
Internet Archive — Look at old versions of web sites.
Gmail manager – Manage Multiple GMail Accounts
BackupURL – Creates cached pages for URLs
Delicious tag for tools – A great way to keep up with new tools.
Media Convert – Convert any file to any file.
Refresh Every – Automatically refresh any page.
Typetester – Compare Typesets
Flickr apps – THE place for Flickr applications.
FotoFlexer – Another great image editing tool.
Instant Domain Search – Instant domain search.
Mail Big File – Send a big file
Dark Copy – Full screen editor to get rid of distractions.
SlideShare – Upload your PowerPoint Presentations to the web.
Docstoc – YouTube for Documents
Ilike – Social music site
Instapaper – Save stuff for later.
Twitterfeed – RSS to Twitter
Wayfaring – Personalized Maps
Bookmooch – Give books away.
Scribd – The YouTube for documents.
Down For Everyone – Or is it just me?
Resizr – Resize Photos
Linkbun – Put multiple links in one small link
Live Bookmarks – RSS Reader that lives in your Firefox Sidebar
Yourli.st – Remind Yourself -
10 minute e-mail – Get a throwaway e-mail address
TwitterBar – Post to Twitter directly from your Firefox Address Bar
URLBarExt – Short Shortcuts
Print What You Like – Print only parts of a web page that you want.
WWWhatsnew – Great blog in Spanish
I want to – Made by a librarian!
Museum of Modern Betas – New sites, new tools
Killer Startups – Analyzes new tools
