Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better

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Whether youre a Mac or Windows user, there are tricks here for you in this helpful resource. Youll feast on this buffet of new shortcuts to make technology your ally instead of your adversary, so you can spend more time getting things done and less time fiddling with your computer. Youll learn valuable ways to upgrade your life so that you can workand livemore efficiently, such as: empty your e-mail inbox, search the Web in three keystrokes, securely save Web site passwords, automatically back up your files, and many more.

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Worth its weight in iPhones
I was a big fan of the first edition of Gina's LifeHacker."Upgrade Your Life" is the expanded, revised, resized and renamed Second Edition, which should make it more accessible to the self-described "non-hacker."

The book's new dimensions and title make it look less like a computer book and more like the self-improvement book that it is.To the uninitiated, "lifehacker" sounds like something Dr. Frankenstein dabbled in, where "upgrade your life" could have come from Tony Robbins. ... Read More
Rating: - A Great Book of Common Sense Tips for Nerds Like Me
I read through this book over the course of a few days and highlighted everything that pertains to my workflow.
I have turned these into a task list and I am trying to implement one of them every other day or so.

The chapter on simply buying a good quality filing cabinet has made life immeasurably better already :-)

I'm using Text Expander to save time on timing out often used phrases.

I'm integrating google apps to take my work into 'the cloud'.
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Rating: - save your time
better off as an article . the point is well made but the book is often redundant .
Rating: - Great Tips for Your Computer and Regular Life
Excellent book. Upgrade Your Life contains an abundance of sensible tips and tricks for anyone who uses a computer on a regular basis and would like to be more efficient. The information in this book is designed to streamline the way you currently do things and help you develop new, more productive habits.

After reading this book I've become more aware of ways to improve my work style, not only on my computer, but also in everyday life. I've used too many of the tips to list them all ... Read More
Rating: - Great Ideas and then some
First I have been working diligently on de cluttering my personal and business life. I have read so many simplifying and de-cluttering and efficiency books I almost have a clutter problem with all the books on the subject. (Cured that recently too with the Kindle 2.)
I run three business. One brick and morter and two online. I was getting over four hundred emails a day and was drowning in mail and spam. So I utilized ideas / suggestions from several sources to cure my problems. From the Four ... Read More