Posts Tagged With: solutions
· October 31, 2007 at 6:26 am · Online Tools
Google Notebook for me has been a life saver in more than one occasion. Right now I use it mainly to manage work related stuff, like quick responses to often asked questions but there are a million and one ways you could get a lot out of it. It is a powerful for just about any job.
Google Notebook Tools
Get the Google Notebook Firefox Extension - The Firefox extension makes a handy helper if you find yourself diving into Google Notebook a lot during your day. It gives you a little popup menu to manage your notebooks in the bottom right hand corner of the browser.
Open Google Notebook in Firefox Sidebar - This is a hack I guess you could say that I stumbled upon several months ago. Still useful if you like to use the Firefox sidebar function a lot.
Google Notebook for your iGoogle Homepage - If your first stop in your browser is Google, then this iGoogle gadget is a perfect one-two punch to your note saving ways.
Google Notebook Tasks and Tips
Search Google Notebooks - Always interesting to see what information has been made public and searchable via Google Notebooks.
Getting Things Done with Google Notebook - If not saving isn’t your deal - then you might want to look at using it as a to do list instead. This article from Lifehacker will help you becoming a “getting things done” guru.
Recover Lost Notes from Trash - One handy feature this is still new to Google Notebook is the ability to recover deleted notes and notebooks. Say you have a change of heart about deleting one of your collections, you can recover it here - as long as 30 days hasn’t passed.
Note Your Google Search Results - After using Google Notebook for the first time you should have a new selection under your Google search results to “Note This”. This will add the search result to your notes for safe keeping.
Add “Sections” Back to Notebooks - After the latest redesign, the “sections” seemed to be lost from Google Notebook. To get them back - click on the “New Note” button and then where it says, “Type, paste or add section” click on the blue link for section and you should give yourself back the divider for your single notebook. Organization rocks!
Google Notebook: Use the Privacy Option - Make sure you are not sharing information you don’t want to have public! Since this posts was written I think the default for notebooks is the “private” setting.
Know of anymore tips? If this becomes as popular as the Google Reader guide I did, might have to keep it updated with suggestions if you have them.
· February 13, 2007 at 12:36 pm · Personal
A few weeks back I picked up my very first external hard drive for backing up my files on my computer.
Now after doing some searching around and looking for exactly what I needed, I ended up with the Western Digital Passport Hard Drive. This little 60 GB hard drive does everything I need it to do.
Now some might ask, why not get a bigger one? Well, right now - I just don’t need it. This one comes with more than enough space for my personal files and backups, so I am golden there. By the time I need more space, I’ll probably want to buy a new external hard drive anyways.
I love the exterior of this thing as well. The case is shinny and black. I am almost afraid to touch it because I don’t want to get my fingerprints all over its sleek design.
The software that comes with it is a little dumpy and ugly, but it gets the job done. All I have to do is plug in the hard drive, start the program, hit a button and I am backed up.
One built in functionality I really like with the backing up software is it sees my Firefox preferences and backs them up too. One less file for me to have to hunt down and but in the backup myself. I like it.
If you are looking for a small backing up solution, I would suggest checking this one out. It is a keeper for sure!
· November 9, 2006 at 8:24 am · Web Hosting
The folks over at Your Web Department are promising to deliver a “Web in a box” type service for those people out there looking for a simple and direct Web hosting solution. One quote in the news coverage I read about this story in caught my eye.
99 percent of our customers don’t care what servers we use, what operating system we run on, or where and how we provide hosting. They just want it to run and be there for them all the time. Your Web Department takes away the pain and complexity. It’s designed to allow anyone who has the ability to create, save, cut and paste to put together and maintain their own Web site easily and affordably.
I have to agree, a lot of people do not care if they are on a Linux box or a Windows box. They could care less what DNS configurations are or what the server load times tell us. So is aiming your business at the people who know least about Web hosting a good idea? I think it is. This is probably the biggest market of people out there, so Your Web Department or any other Web host out there would be silly not to reach out to them.
· November 2, 2006 at 11:51 am · Personal
Yeah, I need another new project - right? For all of you problem solves (or people who have problems that need to be solved) check this out. I’ve started writing up some new content for Lockergnome highlighting the best of the best and using it to solve your problems. More content will be added over time, so make sure you bookmark it and check it daily for all kinds of Web goodies.
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