Archive for October, 2008

The new Opera 9.6 is out, so you might want to give it a whirl. I haven’t tried it yet, but as soon as I get a chance too I will. I’m hoping the speed enhancements are visible and I’m eager to give Opera Mail another go. Get the latest version from the Opera website.

As my friend Karl points out on Make Use Of, some of us are indeed not normal, and that’s the way (aha aha) we like it. His quick tutorial shows you a great productivity method of opening two separate versions of Outlook at the same time. If you need to quickly switch between two exchange servers, you’ve just struck golf. Find out how to do this on Make Use Of.

If you work on a lot of web projects on your site, you know you have to spell check, spell check and spell check. Nothing looks more unprofessional, and sadly, still very few take the time to go through their sites. Please don’t laugh, I know I probably have about a million, but I can just say that this is my own dialect! Take a look at Spellist, a website which takes your site and scans it for all mistakes it can find. It’s not the prettiest site, but it’s simple and fast, a great tool for webmasters out there. Thanks to Teknobnites for the find!

Gmail Labs has unrolled a new feature, called mail goggles. It’s a small feature that has you solve some math problems before it sends your email at times you specify. This is so that you don’t send emails late at night for example that you might regret later. Personally, I think this is a bit stupid, and for me it wouldn’t really work. However, some of you might find that it increases your productivity by NOT letting you do something!

After two long months of inactivity I think it’s pretty much time to get Hack Your Day going again. Since I don’t have a lot of time for this I am aiming for three distinct types of posts in the future. My primary type will be long reviews of apps. I’m talking the in-depth goodness that sites like Lifehacker and Make Use Of bring you, instead of half length articles I will really go into the nuances and productivity aspect of stuff and how you can use apps in different, out of the box ways.

The second type of article will be the ‘oh and this is a good idea to do’ type of article, stuff about productivity in general, like a new time management solution I found, or a more productive way of reading, etc. These will mostly be shorter, but in some instances I may promote the subject matter to in depth.

The third type will be the short news flash. When a new productivity app comes along I’ll let you guys know as it happens in the form of a one liner, or a simple link to another site’s article. So far I’ve always waited and reviewed before mentioning them. This meant that I was seemingly always late on news, and that I missed out on all the important stuff. Well no more!

In short, I would settle with 3 posts a week instead of two a day, as long as they are of high-high quality. I hope it all goes well, I want to start as fast as I can, I think I can do the first post by Friday, so stay tuned. I will give the site a minor overhaul to accomodate for the changes and to give it a less “all over the place” look, which it still has for some reason.

See you all soon with awesome new productivity posts!