Doc Ott’s Life Hack Blog

I have 6 blogs at last count and none of them are backed up. Truth be told, there isn’t much there to be worth backing up, but…..

Bck up your wordpress blog with the built in backup tool

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

So I use Wordpress for all my blogs, but you will quickly notice they all look alike, and look a lot like most other people’s wordpress blogs. Thats because I use the default theme because I am too lame to edit my own.

Here comes a nice little online site that will generate a wordpress theme for you. You pick the colors and layout (and stuff) and it generates the file to drop into your blog.

I should really do this for mine. Time, can anyone get me some time? I am seem to be short over here…

Roll your own Wordpress theme

Seems simple enough. I like folding paper.

Folding your own paper gift box at Instructables

There are lots of online to do lists out there, but one will allow you to make a handy dandy paper version for when you head out (gasp) without an active internet connection.

http://www.toodledo.com/

So you have all your great music on your home machine but would like to listen to it at work, or maybe even while at Starbucks? Well now you can set up your own little internet radio station with your own music with Orb. Looks seriosuly cool.

Roll your own MP3 server with Orb

So I have started to use my video iPod for (gasp) watching videos. I subscribed to some video podcasts, but what about those cool YouTube videos of Steven Wright? Well, now you can download them (for free) directly to your machine. Google video has a direct link on their website for downloading for iPod, but you need a convertor for YouTube videos.

Download YouTube videos for portable devices