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| Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better | 
| Author: Gina Trapani
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (16 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8152
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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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| Customer Reviews:
Great book for those wanting to be a bit more efficient May 28, 2008
6 out of 6 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
2 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
5 out of 6 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
2 out of 8 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! :)
great tool, great reference April 21, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have been working my way through this book and finding it so relevant for the modern day lifehacker (person who loves the computer revolution and the internet)
It is great to try new tools have had to get through a few hoops before being recommended.
It is very easy to actually read too. The size of the text makes cruising through the book quite easy too.
I have a small blog www.keepordump.wordpress.com which is really about whether to keep or dump new software I have tried. This book has provided a lot of inspiration to keep adding to it.
Two thumbs up.
Tony
Sydney, Australia
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