“9 Things The Non-Tech Savvy Do That Annoy Geeks” (via Spiraloz.com)

 Comical, yet very true. Site was down at last check, so link is to DuggMirror cache.

Spiraloz.com

A Simpler Twist on Todo.txt

I was perusing Slacker Manager the other day when I came across their “Best Of” section. There are many interesting posts featured there, but one caught my eye. It is called “Append to text file v.4” Using the free program AutoHotkey as a base, this post gives you a script that allows you to append text to a text file with a timestamp. This could have many uses: research, a worklog, etc., but I chose to use it for a to-do list. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to easily append text, dump the clipboard into the file or call up the file itself. With some simple editing of the script file, you can set the path of the text file to be anywhere on your computer. I will try this out for a few weeks , but at the moment it seems like a much simpler alternative to the previously-discussed Cygwin method of Todo.txt.

Google Reader Shared Items

This is a link to the Google Reader page that contains my favorite posts from all of the RSS feeds I read.

Google Reader -  shared items

Easy Bookmarking and Site-Searching in Firefox

I read a Lifehacker post a few months back that changed the way I use Firefox. If I want to go to Weather.com, I would normally type out the full web address. But now, I only need to type “w.” And say I wanted to search Lifehacker for a specific keyword. I would normally go to Lifehacker.com and use the built-in search bar. But now, I just type “lhsearch keyword” (without quotes and with ‘keyword’ being my search term) into my Firefox address bar and press Enter. These one-letter bookmarks and address-bar based searches are easy to configure, as long as the site’s search tool works something like this:

http://www.site.com/search/%s

“%s” represents the search term. That is what your address bar should look like after you’ve performed a search on the site.

The extension you need and all of the instructions to easier, faster bookmarking are available through the Lifehacker post.