Tag: GINA TRAPANI

Google Wave is an innovative new communication tool, but part of innovation is that it's not always intuitive to use. Early adopters have been jumping into Wave with little guidance on how to take advantage of all its features. I guess you could watch the 90-minute Wave video, but that's not exactly a quick-start guide. Well, there's a saying almost as old as computers themselves, and it goes: ...

Weblogs Inc.'s own Barb Dybwad teamed up with Gina Trapani of Lifehacker fame this past week at the BlogHer conference to give a session called Blogging Workflow and Tips - Gina called it "how the hell to update your blog 12 times a day and still have a life". While it would have been wonderful to be able to experience the session first hand, we'll have to be satisfied with browsing the wiki Barb ...

In her never-ending quest for interface perfection, Lifehacker Gina Trapani has written a great Geek to Live tutorial called Consolidate Firefox's chrome. In it she teaches you how to pare down Firefox's menus, toolbar, address back, and bookmarks toolbar until all that's left is what you absolutely need. To be specific, you'll learn how to eliminate entire menus from the menubar, how to keep ...

Lifehacker Gina Trapani has written a great tutorial for automatically e-mailing yourself file backups. While e-mail isn't a great place to store an entire system backup, my 2.7 GB of Gmail space is enough to store my My Documents folder 50 times over, and being able to securely access important files from anywhere is priceless. As with many of Lifehacker's tutorials, the process takes some ...