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Windows: Disable Windows Update restart nag
august 2008 by ulrichp
Windows installed another round of updates and now it's asking you to restart. Again. One simple command line entry can disable this obnoxious reminder.
howto
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software
windows
hacks
lifehacks
productivity
computers
microsoft
august 2008 by ulrichp
fish
august 2008 by ulrichp
fish is a new, extremely friendly shell for *nix-like operating systems.
development
tools
cli
osxcli
software
opensource
linux
unix
productivity
freeware
programming
august 2008 by ulrichp
Bento - Overview, Personal Database - FileMaker
february 2008 by ulrichp
Filemaker's personal database. Looks and feels an awful lot like an iLife app; sort of like Filemaker without the intimidation or the huge pricetag.
apple
database
mac
organization
osx
productivity
february 2008 by ulrichp
ProVoc
april 2007 by ulrichp
Sort of like interactive language flashcards, but with several more features. OS X only.
education
howto
productivity
osx
interesting
mac
tools
useful
april 2007 by ulrichp
How to Write a Spelling Corrector
april 2007 by ulrichp
...in 20 lines of Python 2.5 code, using a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories as your 'good word' corpus.
development
diy
programming
howto
interesting
linguistics
python
productivity
software
statistics
technology
april 2007 by ulrichp
I Will Teach You To Be Rich: Set smaller goals: impress friends, get girls, lose weight
january 2007 by ulrichp
How to make sustainable changes by not going to extremes. 'Gradual change' is a great concept, whether it's finances, diets, or - well - anything.
howto
interesting
lifehacks
money
health
productivity
psychology
january 2007 by ulrichp
Wesabe
january 2007 by ulrichp
Take control of your money, find the best values in your area, and reach your financial goals by joining the Wesabe community.
lifehacks
money
productivity
tools
useful
web2.0
january 2007 by ulrichp
Joe's Goals
january 2007 by ulrichp
A very simple goal-tracking system. I'm using it for various sorts of things.
health
lifehacks
interesting
exercise
internet
web2.0
tools
useful
work
software
productivity
january 2007 by ulrichp
Literature and Latte - Scrivener Gold
january 2007 by ulrichp
Scrivener is a new piece of software for the Mac aimed at writers who want to manage and organise projects large or small.
mac
fiction
freeware
productivity
software
writing
january 2007 by ulrichp
loopnote.com
december 2006 by ulrichp
Keep people in the loop, via a webapp that notifies subscribes to your Loop. Will have to try this out later; could prove invaluable.
email
interesting
lifehacks
mobile
notes
productivity
rss
web2.0
tools
useful
december 2006 by ulrichp
VNC
march 2006 by ulrichp
OSXvnc - did you know you could run it from the command line? Neither did I!
apple
computers
freeware
howto
opensource
productivity
software
useful
mac
march 2006 by ulrichp
Bionic Office - Joel on Software
december 2005 by ulrichp
The second floor of our office building seems to be unoccupied. Now if only I could convince our managers to spring for it and remake it into something like this.
architecture
howto
interesting
lifehacks
organization
productivity
software
useful
work
development
december 2005 by ulrichp
18 Tricks to Teach Your Body
december 2005 by ulrichp
From Men's Health. Cure a toothache without opening your mouth, clear your sinuses, soothe a burn, and relieve the need to pee by ... well, you'll see.
hacks
howto
lifehacks
productivity
trivia
december 2005 by ulrichp
space-age wasteland » Blog Archive » Make Days Off Grand
october 2005 by ulrichp
"Every ten weeks or so, take a day off from everything." Organizing mini-retreats from the world.
lifehacks
productivity
work
october 2005 by ulrichp
Onlife
october 2005 by ulrichp
Like Spotlight, if Spotlight didn't suck. I'm curious about its interaction with non-Apple programs: namely, Adium instead of iChat, since I dumped iChat a year ago.
apple
email
internet
interesting
lifehacks
mac
music
organization
pim
productivity
software
technology
todo
tools
useful
october 2005 by ulrichp
Getting Things Done on a Macintosh | Ask MetaFilter
october 2005 by ulrichp
The title pretty much explains it. Sadly, it devolves at first into a debate on Mac email clients before anything useful is gleaned.
apple
lifehacks
mac
organization
productivity
project
technology
software
tools
useful
october 2005 by ulrichp
Stephanie Burns - How to Install a Habit
october 2005 by ulrichp
Good advice for making things we might otherwise be unmotivated to do into a daily habit.
lifehacks
howto
interesting
organization
productivity
todo
tools
useful
october 2005 by ulrichp
The Noguchi Filing System
october 2005 by ulrichp
"This system relies on Noguchi's idea that it is more likely that the user will know or remember about when a document was created, than he/she will be able to remember where it has been stored in a conventional system."
organization
productivity
interesting
howto
october 2005 by ulrichp
Next Up: Google Office?
october 2005 by ulrichp
Are Google and Sun going to announce a StarOffice collaboration today (Google Office)? Stay tuned to find out!
google
sun
productivity
work
writing
october 2005 by ulrichp
Ning | Home: Front Page
october 2005 by ulrichp
Roll-your-own social software? That's what Ning is promising. Any of the software can also be cloned and altered by other users, to boot. Sadly, light.ning.com is inactive, but shi.ning.com is still available!
ajax
interesting
productivity
software
technology
tools
useful
web2.0
webdev
socnet
development
october 2005 by ulrichp
From the Hall: GmailThis!
september 2005 by ulrichp
Sort of like BlogThis, only with emailing, and Gmail.
email
google
productivity
software
tools
javascript
september 2005 by ulrichp
Roblog: OGTD, Original Gangsta
september 2005 by ulrichp
Blogging is the new... oh wait. (You know, one of these days, I'm going to have to read Getting Things Done, just to see what all the fuss is about.)
blogging
productivity
organization
humor
september 2005 by ulrichp
TaskTime3
september 2005 by ulrichp
Seems like a really interesting piece of shareware for timing projects. I especially like that you can turn project timers into itsy-bitsy start and stop windows. I'd probably lose them - but then again, that's what Exposé is for.
mac
productivity
tools
apple
september 2005 by ulrichp
Taylor McKnight - //gtmcknight - Backpack tips and tricks
september 2005 by ulrichp
I've been using Backpack for a while, and it still amazes me what people will come up with to make it useful. Taylor's got a great collection of tips here - including API wrappers! Now I might have to build a Backpack tool...
backpack
css
hacks
interesting
organization
productivity
technology
useful
development
september 2005 by ulrichp
FAQ/shell - cornerhost wiki
september 2005 by ulrichp
includes CVS instructions
howto
project
productivity
project:stream
development
september 2005 by ulrichp
welcome home : vim online
september 2005 by ulrichp
I think I am finally going to have to teach myself to use vim
howto
interesting
internet
linux
mac
news
opensource
osxcli
productivity
tools
unix
useful
windows
writing
development
september 2005 by ulrichp
MakeZine.com
september 2005 by ulrichp
Must remember to subscribe to Make's podcast.
apple
books
electronics
geekery
howto
hacks
internet
linux
lifehacks
news
productivity
rss
tools
useful
science
development
september 2005 by ulrichp
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