Archive for the 'life hacks' Category

Todoist: Get things done with this simple todo manager

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Just wanted to post a quick link to a review I did for Download Squad of Amir Salihefendic awesome Todoist tool. You can find a link to the review here.

Like many others who are trapped in their cubicles all day I’ve developed an unhealthy fascination with task managers, todo lists, and project trackers. I want […]

Download: My Talker - Kid-friendly type-and-talk app

I’ve got another review up on Download Squad, thought you all might want to take a look. The product is called My Talker and is a type and talk program with animated and kind friendly characters speaking your text. You can download it here.
The application is very kid-friendly and would be an excellent resource for […]

Speed reading with Zap Reader and Spreeder

Got another article up over on DownLoad Squad. It covered two application that let you speed read content on the internet. Thought you all might find it useful and worth a read. You can read the article here.

I’ve been an on again off again speed reader for some time. Every couple of years I find […]

Joe becomes a Download Squad Contributor

Good morning everyone! Today I’m really excited to announce that I’ve become a blogger over at the Download Squad blog. I’ll be doing weekly or semi-weekly posts on products and applications I use to “hack” my life. This page will update with a list of my posts and I encourage you to bookmark it to […]

Take the Writer’s Weight Loss Challenge

Deborah Ng of Freelance Writing Jobs and Writers Row fame has come up with a great idea. Why not have bloggers use Joe’s Goals to challenge each other to lose weight? The idea is pretty simple. Sign up for Joe’s Goals, create a couple of simple weight loss goals, create a badge, and place the […]

Snip Shot - Edit your photos online

The likes of Flickr and Photobucket have produced a surge of interest in digital photography and, specifically, building online photo albums. The major thing that has been missing from the online photo experience is a way to tweak your photos without having to use a program like Photoshop. SnipShot is one of the first attempts […]

Pandora - The coolest way to find music you like

Sometimes I code best when there is total silence. Other times I need music. But what music? Pandora is a service that takes a song or artist you like and builds a radio station around it. The services uses the Music Gnome Project to map the music based on the qualities a song contains. You […]

ZamZar - Most Any File Format to Most Any File Format

Need to convert a file from one format to another? ZamZar is a web based system that lets you upload a file in one format and get back another file in another format. You can even convert multiple files at once and it will email links to the converted files when complete. Very useful tool […]

Foxit: letting you read PDFs instead of load Acrobat

I remember back when Google started indexing PDFs. I thought it was very cool - for about a nano-second. The first time I searched Google and clicked on a PDF without paying attention I recalled how much I hate PDFs. Adobe’s Acrobat is a curse on a very cool document format. Acrobat is slow, doubly […]

So this is what pop does to my body

Most athletes know that drinking pop is one of the worst things you can do while training. But what about computer geeks like me who only run to catch the bus? While truth be told that pop (also know as soda and/or coke) is horrible for your body. How horrible? Well Healthbolt has a nice […]