10.26.2006

Getting Real by 37signals -- now free online

So far we’ve sold over 23,000 copies of Getting Real in PDF format. We introduced it on March 1 of this year, so we’re pretty thrilled with the results. But 23,000 readers isn’t enough. We want millions of people to read the book. So today we introduce two new flavors that make the content even more accessible. And, in one case, completely free.

Get organized with GTDTiddlyWiki

Everyone has to find their own killer personal organizational app, and for me, it's a single, free HTML document called GTDTiddlyWiki. The self-contained standalone mini-wiki is packed with features but it doesn't dictate how you work - it provides a canvas on which you can design your own process improvements and workflows.

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10.24.2006

Boing Boing: Jack Black's "anti-piracy" PSA

Jack Black has produced an hilarious send-up of anti-piracy PSAs as part of the promotion for his upcoming Tenacious D movie.

10.17.2006

Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.

10.13.2006

Geek to Live: Roll your own timeline - Lifehacker

how to visualize a series of events using the open source dynamic widget called Timeline.

10.12.2006

Practice your personal Kaizen - Lifehacker

A Japanese management strategy called Kaizen roughly translates to "continuous slow improvement." In the corporate world, it's an efficiency and defect-proofing system often used on factory floors. But Kaizen emphasizes the well-being of the employee, working smarter, not harder and developing best practices so that workers don't have to think. As such, Kaizen is an ideal approach to improve one's personal workflow.

How to Run a Meeting Like Google

How to Run a Meeting Like Google

10.10.2006

Wikipedia:Sound/list - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of full length copyleft/public domain songs available on Wikipedia or the Commons (alphabetically sorted by composer using a custom script).

Play your favorite NES games online - Lifehacker

Web site vNES lets you play any of over 200 NES games online, in your browser.

10.04.2006

2007 Calendar -- Wacky Desktop Calendar *No Tube*

Here's a unique desktop calendar for you: it features a fully functional calendar with separate sides on each page, the left to see the month at a glance and the right side to provide a handy space to write. You can also indicate your status with funny pictures of stick figures ("I am on a holiday" "I am at lunch" "See you tomorrow" and "I am out now").

Joe's Goals - Free Online Goal Tracker

Joe's Goals is a simple yet powerful tool to make tracking your goals the easiest part of accomplishing them. Use our simple single page interface to setup daily and weekly goals and track your overall progress and score. Setup negative goals (or vices) to confront and overcome the bad habits that finally need to get the boot.

10.03.2006

Download of the Day: Ext2 Installable File System (Windows) - Lifehacker

Freeware program Ext2 Installable File System lets you read ext2/ext3 formatted partitions from a Windows computer.

Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka « adamantine

I should read this when I have time.

“Ghost” Windows XP for free at habibbijan.com

DriveImage XML is an “easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.”

10.02.2006

Lyrics Plugin

Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically.

Lyrics Plugin

Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically.