Apr
27
27
Better Living Link Roundup
Posted under Business Related, Productivity, Technology
Here are some great tips and news on digital tools and resources.
- How to Get Better Battery Life from Your Android Phone [Android]Source LifehackerIf you have a modern Android phone, you know the pain of turning on your phone at 5 PM only to realize it's deep in a low-battery coma. Here are the simple manual changes, and clever automatic tweaks...
- Diagramly Is a Quick Online Diagram, Mind Map, and Flow Chart Creator [Webapp]Source LifehackerThere are plenty of apps for creating flow charts, mind maps, and other types of diagrams, but Diagramly is ready to go the minute you visit the site. It's remarkably similar to Microsoft Visio, but...
- Smartphones Are Local Search and Shopping DevicesSource GigaOMThere’s a reason why search companies, advertisers, payment processors and local merchants are so interested in smartphones. It’s because they’re turning out to be powerful and popular tools for people looking to search locally, act quickly and...
- Keepsy Brings Instagram to Your BookshelfSource GigaOMKeepsy, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based scrapbook startup, has launched its first product, “Instant Album,” a way to order physical scrapbooks made from Instagram photo albums. Keepsy is just the latest in a spate of new startups, like Sincerely and...
- Google Docs Brings Native App with Editing, Optical Character Recognition to Android [Downloads]Source LifehackerGoogle Docs has been available as a mobile-optimized webapp for a long time, but it always left something to be desired. Today, Google released a native app for Android devices that makes it easy to...
- Make Notepad++ an Even Better Editing App with Powerful Plug-Ins [Text Editing]Source LifehackerYou don't have to go hunting to find plug-ins for the excellent, lightweight text editor Notepad++—there are a whole bunch already installed, and the others are in one big pack. There are, however,...
- Avoid Frequent Discharges to Extend Your Phone or Laptop's Battery Life [Batteries]Source LifehackerPeople spread a lot of information about smartphone and laptop batteries these days, but we get a lot of mixed messages, some of which are just incorrect. Here's how to take care of your battery for...
- TravAlert Wakes You Up Before Your Train or Bus Stop [Downloads]Source LifehackeriOS/Android/BlackBerry: People fall asleep on public transit, whether intentionally or otherwise. Mobile app TravAlert keeps track of your location without killing your battery, and then wakes you up...
- How to Make a Web Site Part I: Understanding and Writing HTML [Video]Source LifehackerEveryone lives at least a little bit of their life on the web, and whether you develop web pages for a living, want to create a nameplate web site, or simply want more control over how your comment...
- Keep Your Pickup and Confirmation Receipts at the Ready with Your Smartphone [Organization]Source LifehackerWhen you receive an online confirmation for a movie ticket, an air flight, an in-store pickup, or anything else where you may need to present your receipt, here's a quick way of always having it easi...
- Use Multiple Online Cloud Storage Services for Free and Organized Backup [Backup]Source LifehackerWe recently reviewed a few popular cloud storage services in an attempt to help you choose the best one, but why should you necessarily have to choose just one? Instead, use them all to create an or...
- CalendarBar Keeps Your iCal and Google Calendars in Your OS X Menubar [Downloads]Source LifehackerMac OS X: CalendarBar is a really handy menubar utility that stores your calendars in your Mac OS X menubar. It syncs up with Google Calendar, works with iCal, and even Facebook. More »...
- Taskforce Adds Lists and Upgrades Its Gmail Task Management [Updates]Source LifehackerChrome/Firefox/Safari: Taskforce, the task management system that tucks itself neatly into Gmail or Google Apps mail, has grown up quite a bit since its beta. The webapp supports more browsers, has a...
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