Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better | 
 enlarge | Author: Gina Trapani
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 7599
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470238364
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.16
EAN: 9780470238363
ASIN: 0470238364
Publication Date: March 17, 2008
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Product Description
The second edition of Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day follows the best-selling format of the first. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific problem in the digital age and offers step-by-step solutions for various operating systems and reader skill levels. Packed with over 50 new and revised hacks, you'll find out how to deal with the daily onslaught of incoming email, manage multiple computers, get your data on the go, tackle your to-do list faster, and more in this book. The additional and revised hacks involve new product recommendations and better strategies that have come out since the first edition. The second edition also prunes tips from the first edition, based on reader feedback.
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A wonderful productivity tool June 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Upgrade Your Life is a great book. I've followed the blog for several years, but it's nice to have an analog version when you want to practice the best techniques available.
Recommended for information or technology workers who need to get more productive to survive and/or avoid insanity.
Great book for those wanting to be a bit more efficient May 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a collection of hints, tips and hacks for the technologically inclined. Areas covered are email, organizing your data, tricks to overcome your procrastination, clearing your mind, focusing your attention, streamlining common tasks, mastering the web, honing your computer survival skills and managing multiple computers.
Not at all ironically, the people for whom this book will be most useful - real geeks - will already know some, not all, of these things. I am most definitely a geek, but I did learn many new things and happy for that.
In some ways, the book will a half-loaf for many. There's a lot of Macintosh stuff that will not be helpful to Windows users and vice-versa. There's Windows Vista material that will not be useful to those (most of us, perhaps?) who are sticking with Windows XP. But this is not a major problem: the book has so much good stuff in it, that there is plenty for everyone.
Trapani's writing style is wonderfully clear, direct and concise.
Overall, other than calling it useful, versatile, eclectic and well-done, this book is difficult to classify. It merges real life (remembering to pick up the milk) with the technical (setting up a VPN) and lots, lots more. It is definitely a fun book to browse, packed with lots of great information.
A very worthwhile addition to your library.
Jerry
Good Tips May 23, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I suspect most people will find some useful tips in this book. As always, they are only useful if you actually do them. But many are fairly simple to implement which helps! And the book is written so you can go immediately to those areas of most interest to you, if you like.
 Informative Organizational Tips April 28, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm not the most disorganized person on the planet, but I'm not the most organized either. I found the book to be a good reference and helpful in getting things organized. The chapter on e-mails - first chapter - actually worked. I feel my inbox is managed well. 200 new messages a day (that's not as much as some folks!) and I'm breezing through them without backlog. On the down side, I found a few tips a little too "organized" for my taste. I'm more about simple effective solutions and this book provides quite a few. It's well worth the investment.
 A must have for productivity geeks April 26, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Great book. Very good to organize your life and ways to work. It should include more contents special for geek and very technical computer user. It is a must have for those who worry about get organized and get the things done! :)
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