Doc Ott’s Life Hack Blog

Cinch is a really easy phone based .mp3 recorder. All you do is call a phone number and record a message.You can then Immediately) go to a website (or subscribe to the rss feed for that number) to hear the file. As described here, if you actually sent out the rss subscription to the ‘web’ […]

Ok, Jott is just plain cool.
The idea is simple, you call a toll free number and record a message (just like any other voice mail service). A REAL human being listens to it and will do any number of things including
- send you an email with the text of what you say
- post a calendar […]

Lots of sites like this exist, a page that give free versions of popular Windows apps.
Forty Free Windows alternatives
And here are lifehackers best of 2007

When going through this 11 top new web apps of 2007 post over at lifehack.org and found Bubbl.us, a cool online mind map app that is ridicoulously simple to use, you can save, share and even export to a image file.

Ok, this is so cool. Launchy is a simple (windows) app that finds files and applications and opens them easily with you having to go through the 15 clicks to get a specific document or folder.
It takes a few minutes to setup to look everywhere you want to go, but it is seriously cool.
From the […]

Batch files are essentially computer task lists that do a series of events when commanded. Good for when you need to to the same thing over and over again. I am not very good at them and have little use for them, usually, but….
Batch file introduction (with video) at Instructables
Here is another nice post […]

Some really good stuff here. I wish my students would take advantage of what is out there to help them be more successful.
Ten online tools for college students

Not sure how I would use this. Maybe my students the night before the exam? who knows…
Instant online chat on any webpage with Yaplet

I sometime tutor online and an online whiteboard is rather important. I used Imagination Cubed for a while, but this one is more robust and has some cool features.
Create instant shareable whiteboards

Hmmm. Have I allready said enough?
101 shareware and freeware programs every nerd needs