KSFO's Web Wanderer

The Links for October 14, 2006

Scott’s Personal Systems of Organization - Solinas/Lifehack

From Lifehack: "Scott Hanselman at Computer Zen introduces his organization system. Even with his highly technical mind, he likes to use both digital and analog (paper-based) organization tools. He categorizes his organization tools into three different period of time - very short term (a few days), short term (a week to a month) and long term (months to one year)."

There's useful information here regardless of whether or not you use digital, or paper and paper methods.

Most people use both (at least email and post-it notes).

Pocket Mod - Solinas

I found this on "Scott’s Personal Systems of Organization" web page.

This is the coolest little personal organizer booklet - and you make it from an ordinary single sheet of paper.

From the site:

Many things make this little personal organizer special, here is a list.

The site contains: The editors let you select from a number of blank page formats. Select whatever page styles you want, and make your book with a couple quick folds and a single cut. No staples, tape, or glue.

Check it out.

Still Life: Five Glass Surfaces on a Tabletop - Solinas

This is the coolest CGI images you'll see this year.

From the site: "Sometimes the best way to express a scientific idea is through an image that grabs the eye and invites viewers to wonder what they're seeing."

"Artist Luc Benard and mathematician Richard Palais have done exactly this with their winning illustration "Still Life: Five Glass Surfaces on a Tabletop" in the 2006 Science and Engineering Visualisation Challenge. Theirs was one of fourteen winning images and multimedia presentations, each using innovative approaches to encapsulate a scientific story. All the entries were featured in the journal Science, which jointly sponsored the competition with the National Science Foundation."

The site has a thumbnail, and a link to a hi-res image.

Easy Kids Recipes - Solinas/Marylaine

From Marylaine's "Neat New Stuff I Found This Week":

From the site: "Do you ever get frustrated as a parent when you make a nice meal for the whole family only to find your kids won't eat it? We're here to help you when you're cooking for children so that you can make meals that the whole family will love. We have kid pleasing recipes to make cooking for kids and the family (and indeed for anyone, child or adult) quick and easy - and delicious."

"Read our growing collection of articles, and don't forget to sign up for our free recipe newsletter to get cooking tips as well as advice on kid cooking."

With the upcoming Holidays, you'll be all set with easy recipes for:

Check it out.

Users Manual Guides - Santa Rosa Steve

Santa Rosa Steve says: "Quick -- where's the manual for your Samsung refridge? You don't know, do you? What about your Yamaha AV amplifier? If you just have to RTFM and missing a manual for many devices from Motorola, Panasonic, Samsung, Philips, Sony, Sharp or other manufacturers, you're in luck. Chances are it might be on the User Manual Guide site"

A good number of manufacturers are listed:

There's lots of products listed for these manufacturers.

Free For All!

"Free For All" picks are hot, FREE items or services. It can be software, online services, you name it - but it's got to be free, with no strings attached.

M8 Multi-Clipboard - Santa Rosa Steve

Santa Rosa Steve says: "M8 will likely replace Clipomatic as my clipboard enhancement."

From Lockergnome: "Toni Feeney suggests M8: “M8 is the simplest of all multi-clipboard programs. Just have it running minimized and it captures everything you cut or copy from other programs. It keeps the last 30 clips. When you want to paste one back, all you have to do is restore M8 and click on the clip you want. If you prefer to work entirely from the keyboard, you can choose a function key to restore M8 and then paste any clip by typing the letter shown next to it. When you move the mouse over the clips, you can see them in the viewer. If the clip is text, you see several lines and if it is a graphic, you see a thumbnail."

From the site:

Clips: M8 is the simplest of all multi-clipboard programs. Just have it running minimized and it captures everything you cut or copy from other programs. It keeps the last 30 clips. When you want to paste one back, all you have to do is restore M8 and click on the clip you want. If you prefer to work entirely from the keyboard, you can choose a function key to restore M8 and then paste any clip by typing the letter shown next to it. When you move the mouse over the clips, you can see them in the viewer. If the clip is text, you see several lines and if it is a graphic, you see a thumbnail.

Screen Shots: To capture the entire screen press Prt Scr. To capture the active window press Alt+PrtScr To capture an individual graphic from Internet Explorer or AOL, point to the graphic, right click and select "Copy" from the drop down list.

Outlook Compatible: One of the features of M8 is that you can paste any screen or graphic directly into the body of an Outlook Express email. With most other programs, you have to save graphics as JPEGs and then attach them.

Check it out. Thanks, Steve!

NetVue Image Finder - Santa Rosa Steve

Santa Rosa Steve says: "NetVue Image Finder is fun--images found tend to match what I've imagined!"

From Lockergome: "Ken Hultman suggests NetVue Image Finder: “Netvue Image Finder is a program used to search for images on the internet and immediately display the full-sized pictures in a slideshow format. You may then save selected images, set your desktop wallpaper, or email a funny picture to your friends at the click of a button. Image Finder can also open your default browser to the original page the image was found on.”"

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