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Upgrade Your Life : The Lifehacker guide to working smarter, faster, and better, 2nd Edition
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Gina Trapani
Wiley, Paperback, 2nd edition, Published March 2008, 456 pages, ISBN 0470238364
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Chapter 1: Control Your Email

     

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The second edition of this book will follow the best-selling format of the 1e with each section describing an overarching principle of the lifehacker, and then segue into concrete applications of that guideline offering useful life hacks for getting things done faster online and off. Each individual software-related hack will be a detailed, step-by-step how-to for setting up and using the solution. All software-related hacks will employ freely-available applications with a focus on Windows users. Mac equivalents will be included.

New and revised hacks involve new products or better strategies that have come out since the first book, and removed hack choices were based on reader feedback

 

Table of Contents

Introduction.

1. Control Your Email.

2. Organize Your Data.

3. Trick Yourself into Getting Done.

4. Clear Your Mind.

5. Firewall Your Attention.

6. Streamline Common Jobs.

7. Automate Repetitive Tasks.

8. Get Your Data To Go.

9. Master the Web.

10. Tune Your Computer.

11. Manage Multiple Computers.

Index.

 

About the Author

Gina Trapani (http//ginatrapani.org) is an independent web programmer and writer whose work has been mentioned in Wired magazine, The New York Times, and Time magazine. She is the founding editor of Lifehacker.com, a software and productivity weblog she updates several times daily. A Sun Microsystems-certified Java programmer, Gina builds web sites and Firefox extensions.




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