Productivity Sauce

Dmitri Popov
Extension Watch: Instant File Sharing with drag2up for Chrome and Chromium

Jun 06, 2011 GMT

It's not immediately apparent how exactly the drag2up extension works and what it actually does: once installed, it doesn't add any new buttons or menu entires. But the extension doesn't need to expose itself, because it does its job in the background. And its job is a pretty simple one: when you drag a document, a file, or an image from your desktop onto a form field on a web page, the extension automatically uploads the item to one of the supported services. Not sure how this can be useful? Say you want to share a photo using the Identi.ca microblogging service. Simply drag the photo you want onto the status update field on Identi'ca's...
Read E-books with Cool Reader

May 31, 2011 GMT

The Cool Reader ebook reader really lives up to its name: it's probably the best cross-platform ebook reader out there. Cool Reader runs on Windows, Linux, and Android devices, and the application supports a wide range of ebook formats, including EPUB, FB2, TXT, RTF, and HTML. The application can handle table of contents and the application supports bookmarks, text search, and hyphenation (it comes with hyphenation dictionaries for several languages). Cool Reader is blazingly fast, even when dealing with large files: it handles a 20MB richly-illustrated epub file on Android with aplomb. You can tweak virtually every aspect of Cool Reader,...
Send Web Articles to Kindle with Kindlebility

May 30, 2011 GMT

There are many ways to push Web articles to your Kindle. You can, for example, use the Instapaper service or the Send to Kindle extension for the Chrome and Chromium browsers. But if you are looking for an open source solution that works with any browser, try Kindlebility. Configuring Kindlebility is a simple two-step procedure. First, enter your Kindle email address and hit Enter to generate a bookmarklet. Drag then the bookmarklet to the bookmark bar of your browser. On a mobile device like iPhone or Android, you have an option to create a bookmarklet manually by using a JavaScript snippet generated by Kindlebility's page. Next, add the...
Handle Multiple Time Zones with WorldTimeBuddy for Chrome and Chromium

May 26, 2011 GMT

Admittedly, the WorldTimeBuddy web app is pretty much a glorified bookmark to the namesake web service, but it's a rather handy service, indeed. As you might have guessed, WorldTimeBuddy allows you to view time in multiple time zones, a boon for those who deal with people and businesses in different parts of the world. World clock tools and apps are a dime a dozen, but WorldTimeBuddy stands out from the crowd thanks to its superior user experience. The service automatically detects your home zone (the service supports more than 20,000 locations), and you can easily add new locations by typing their names in the search box. The best part is...
DIY Mobile Photo Sharing with Piwigo and ReGalAndroid

May 25, 2011 GMT

If you happen to host your own photo gallery using Piwigo or Gallery and you use an Android device, you have almost everything you need to replace TwitPic, yfrog, or any other third-party mobile photo sharing service with your own DIY solution. Using the ReGalAndroid app, you can not only browse photos in your photo gallery, but also snap pictures, upload them to the gallery, and share them via microblogging services like Identi.ca or Twitter.To connect ReGalAndroid to your photo gallery installation, launch the app, press the Menu hardware button on your Android device, tap on Settings, and configure the required settings, such as Gallery type, Gallery URL, Username, and Password. While...
Create a Simple Scratchpad with Autokey

May 09, 2011 GMT

A plain text file acting as a scratchpad can come in handy in many situations. You can use it to store text and code snippets, links, and other useful stuff. But copying and pasting text fragments into a text file manually is not the most sensible way to go. A simple script based on the AutoKey utility can solve the problem. AutoKey can handle Python scripts, and it has its own API which makes it supremely easy to create interactive scripts. The script itself is not particularly complicated: snip = clipboard.get_selection() retCode, note = dialog.input_dialog("Note", "Enter note") filename = '/home/dmpop/Documents/Snips/snips.txt' file = open(filename,...
Add Appindicator for Ubuntu One

Apr 29, 2011 GMT

Ubuntu One may lack all the bells and whistles of Dropbox, but it's still a solid solution for keeping files in sync across multiple machines -- especially if you are running Ubuntu. However, despite some recent improvements to the service and software in Ubuntu 11.04, one glaring omission remains -- Ubuntu One still doesn't have an appindicator, so there is no easy way to monitor the sync activity and status. Fortunately, there is an easy fix for that: you can install a third-party appindicator from a PPA. All you have to do is to run three simple commands in the Terminal: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rye/ubuntuone-extras sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntuone-indicator ...
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