Thursday, August 26, 2010

TweetRight Shares Pics, Text, and Links from the Chrome Context Menu [Downloads]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5621474/tweetright-shares-pics-text-and-links-from-the-chrome-context-menu

TweetRight Shares Pics, Text, and Links from the Chrome Context MenuChrome: If you find yourself frequently cutting and pasting links from your web browser to include in Twitter updates, TweetRight offers easy sharing of pictures, text, and links right from the Chrome's context menu.

In the screenshot above we're sharing a picture from a prior Lifehacker article—Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture—to Twitter from the context menu. TweetRight adds a "Post X to Twitter" menu in your right-click context menu where X is the type of content such as an image, a link, or a text clipping. In instances where the object is two things such an an image and a link, you can select which you'd like to share.

TweetRight requires that you have an early release version of Chrome 6 such as Chrome 6 Beta or Chrome 6 Dev Channel installed. Found a new extension that takes advantage of the recently enabled add-to-context menu abilities in Chrome? Let's hear about it in the comments.

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TaskForce Manages Your Tasks and Email Activity in Gmail (and We've Got Beta Invites) [Gmail]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5621077/taskforce-manages-your-tasks-and-email-activity-in-gmail-and-weve-got-beta-invites

TaskForce Manages Your Tasks and Email Activity in Gmail (and We've Got Beta Invites) Your inbox is a steady stream of incoming information. TaskForce sorts your tasks, emails, and activity to help you work more efficiently. We've got 2,000 beta invites so hurry and sign up!

TaskForce Manages Your Tasks and Email Activity in Gmail (and We've Got Beta Invites) TaskForce is a little window that lives in your Gmail, splitting your messages into types: information, action, and broadcast. It lets you add tasks directly from its interface or through email. You can share tasks with others, even if they don't use TaskForce. You and others can comment on tasks, prioritize, and attach files. It all lives in a small space in the top right corner of your Gmail and aims to make time spent in your inbox a lot more efficient.

TaskForce Manages Your Tasks and Email Activity in Gmail (and We've Got Beta Invites) Creating tasks using TaskForce is really simple. You just click the "New Task" button and enter the relevant information. When you're finished, you'll see your tasks detailed similarly to the picture on the left. You don't have to be signed in to Gmail to add tasks, however. TaskForce has an iPhone-optimized site for adding tasks when you're out. In the picture to the left you can also see the ability to add people to the task. If they're using TaskForce, the task will synchronize with their account. If not, they'll receive an email so they can still participate.

TaskForce Manages Your Tasks and Email Activity in Gmail (and We've Got Beta Invites) TaskForce also creates an activity feed to help clear out the numerous broadcast emails you receive every day. It works via filters, so you can specify virtually anything that you want to show up. It'll archive those messages to get them out of your inbox and save them to your TaskForce activity feed instead. If you want those messages to bypass your inbox entirely, you can set them to be delivered directly to TaskForce and TaskForce will insert them into your feed automatically—without the need for filtering.

TaskForce Manages Your Tasks and Email Activity in Gmail (and We've Got Beta Invites)

Invites have run out, but you can sign up to be let into the beta when more are available. Please do not email us for invites.


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Awesome Drop Transfers Files to Your Android Phone via HTML5 Drag-and-Drop [Downloads]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5621787/awesome-drop-transfers-files-to-your-android-phone-via-html5-drag+and+drop

Windows/Mac/Linux and Android: Mounting your Android phone to your computer to transfer files can be kind of a pain. Free Android app Awesome Drop lets you drag files from your computer onto your device over the web, no mounting necessary.

While you could always use Dropbox's Android client to share files between your devices, not everyone has a Dropbox account. Furthermore, it doesn't actually sync files to your device's hard drive, so it becomes a multi-step process. Awesome Drop is quick, painless, and works from any computer.

Just open up the Awesome Drop app on your phone and enter the PIN it gives you in Awesome Drop's web interface, accessible from any browser. The HTML5-powered webapp will then give you a window to which you can drag and drop any files you want, and they'll automatically appear on your phone, ready for use. Check out the video for a demonstration.

Awesome Drop is a free download for Android devices, and works on most browsers.

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Airline Seating Chart Shows You Best Seat for Your Needs [Air Travel Tip]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5621876/airline-seating-chart-shows-you-best-seat-for-your-needs

Airline Seating Chart Shows You Best Seat for Your NeedsWhether you want more leg room, a better spot to stash your carry on bag, or to keep your elbows safe from the ravages of rickety drink carts, this handy diagram will help.

The above diagram comes to us courtesy of Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exotic by Lauren Smith and Derek Fagerstrom. The illustration offers a great visual guide to selecting seats for your next airline trip. Need a safe spot to stash your carry one? Pick a seat at the back, you'll board first and have your pick of the available bins. Want to bank on decent leg room? Grab a seat by the bulkhead or the back of the plane, seat pitch increases towards the back of many planes.

All that information doesn't help you if you can't actually book a seat that's specific to the sweet spots in the particular plane you're flying in, of course, so make sure you check out previously reviewed SeatGuru—you'll see where your potential seats are in relation to the specific plane you're flying on. Have a travel tip, trick, or infographic to share? Let's hear about it in the comments. Thanks Edward!

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Use Your Google Voice as a Long-Lasting, Far-Reaching Emergency Contact Number [Clever Uses]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5621911/use-your-google-voice-as-a-long+lasting-far+reaching-emergency-contact-number

Use Your Google Voice as a Long-Lasting, Far-Reaching Emergency Contact NumberWe've discussed how Google Voice makes a useful emergency contact number, but Michael at jammer(six) reminds us that, even if you don't use Voice as your primary number, you can use it as an emergency number for others to call you.

Background photo by Steve Snodgrass.

Google Voice is useful enough to have for its voicemail features alone, and if you haven't started using Voice as your primary phone number (it is rather difficult to get your friends to start using a new number), its advanced features can still be useful. Michael explains how to use it as your number for emergency contact:

One of the big things that they ask for at the beginning of the school year is emergency contact information. The problem with this is that, if your phone number changes, you'll have to change your emergency info all over town.

Enter Google Voice. . .You'll no longer have to provide you home, cell, and work numbers. You can just give your Google Voice number and set it up to ring all of your phones at once.

Not only that, but you can use it to ring multiple people (such as both you and your spouse), or prompt a different ringtone so you know something's an emergency before you even take it out of your pocket (you'd need to make sure Voice is set to come up on your caller ID as your Google Voice number, not the caller's, to do this though). Got any of your own clever uses for Google Voice? Share them in the comments.

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