{"id":2742,"date":"2008-04-04T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T03:09:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-02T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:52:37","slug":"upgrade-your-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/upgrade-your-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two years I&#8217;ve subscribed to the Lifehacker.com feed for a steady stream of always awesome productivity tips and tricks, everything from Firefox add-ons (<a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/373503\/monitor-amazon-products-for-price-drops-and-availability-in-real+time\">Buylater<\/a>) to various household how-to&#8217;s. Flipping through this book &#8212; the second edition of hacks distilled and updated from the blog &#8212; was pleasantly surprising. Somehow I managed to miss, dismiss or simply forget some great stuff. For instance, I stumbled on and immediately installed Noise, a Mac-based program that generates soft white noise. Now when I can&#8217;t decide what to listen to and shuffled tracks seems too distracting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackholemedia.com\/noise\/\">Noise<\/a> steps in as the perfect default work-time soundtrack. The book has a good mix of desktop tweaks ranging from easy to advanced, affordable to free, and Windows\/PC to Mac-specific. Some bits overlap a bit with <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/rule-the-web\/\">Rule the Web<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/getting-things\/\">Getting Things Done<\/a>, but I like to envision productivity and organization info charted out as a Venn diagram. The overlap is often what&#8217;s most essential. Everything else is potential gravy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guide to lifehacking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[1350],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11263,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/11263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}