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Gina Trapani – Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day [PDF]Official book website: linkBook author’s website: linkAmazon website: linkAuthor: Gina TrapaniReleased: December 2006Title: “Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day”One of the Amazon user’s review:Quote:”I love this book!I am going to be perfectly honest and admit that until a few months ago I had no idea what a “Life hack” was! Now I know that life hacks are productivity tricks used by programmers and others who are wise in the ways of computers to avoid information overload and organize their lives.The main thrust of my own work is to help people overcome overload, avoid burnout and develop resilience. This is one of the most practical books that I have seen dealing with the electronic overload to which we can all fall victim. Computers and the Internet have presented us with some of the most extraordinary opportunities, but they can also open the floodgates to an overwhelming morass of information vying for our attention.The problem for most of us is how to optimize and organize all this technology. That’s exactly where this book comes in: it is crammed with useful and highly practical ways of taming the electronic gremlins that threaten to engulf most of us.The book is composed of 88 tech tricks based on items written by Gina Trapani on the popular website Lifehacker dot com. Something that I particularly liked was that Gina provides hacks for Windows XP, Vista and Macintosh: we Macintosh users are so often left out in the cold!If I didn’t even know what a life hack was, I am obviously no expert, but as soon as the book arrived I sat down with it at the keyboard and in no time had done half a dozen things that have already been very helpful to me. Gina explains everything simply and her writing is a model of clarity.A few of her hacks are clearly not designed for a novice, but most are easily accessible. There is also a companion website – […] that has loads of updates, links and references.My copy of the book is already festooned with notes and bookmarks. I am quite sure that I am going to be using it for a long time to come, and I am going to recommend it every time I have clients who tell me that their electronic lives are becoming unmanageable.Gina hasn’t just created a supremely valuable book; she has also performed an act of service for all of us.Very highly recommended.”