By Adam Pash Get the Best of Lifehacker in Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and BetterLifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better is a compilation of the best 121 hacks, tricks, and downloads from Lifehacker's archives. This dead tree version of the web site transforms scores of one-off blog posts into comprehensive, edited tutorials, some of which will be familiar to longtime readers, others of which are completely new. Herein you'll find a preview of what's inside the cover, including links to past posts that informed each chapter. Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and BetterAvailability: Lifehacker is available in paperback from Amazon, on Kindle, as an epub, and in bookstores everywhere.Price: Varies. Currently the best price is for the epub from my publisher, Wiley; buy the epub here and use the promo code LHB3E for 40% off through June 30th. The final price will be $11.99 + tax. What's It All About? For a better understanding of what Lifehacker is about, read the book's introduction. Read a little about what's new below, or jump down to the Table of Contents for the mega-roundup. Huge thanks to my co-author and Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani and to all of you for helping us hone the craft of life hacks. (My apologies: I had to break the post into a few separate pages because it exceeds the maximum size for our publishing system.) What's the Difference Between the Book and the Site?The most important difference between Lifehacker the book and Lifehacker the site is that the book culls together what Gina and I consider to be the most valuable, time-saving, and important things we've highlighted in Lifehacker's six years on the internet, and it does so in a more organized, more thorough way. Just by the nature of the book versus the web site, the former is extremely tightly curated, while the latter is moving and changing every day. The book contains plenty of new hacks you won't find on the site, but the two are very much a part of one another.What's New in the Third Edition?A lot. If you need a reminder of how quickly technology transforms the way we live, look back no further than the three years between this and the previous edition of this book, released in March of 2008. Microsoft launched Windows 7 in the fall of 2009, a considerable and welcome step forward not only for the Windows operating system, but for Windows users. (If you recall, three years ago many Windows users still used Windows XP, having decided that an operating system first released in 2001 was superior to the maligned Windows Vista.) In the summer of 2008, Apple launched their App Store and substantially evolved the iOS operating system, creating new expectations for all smart phones and mobile devices along the way. Google evolved beyond search and productivity webapps, releasing their own web browser, Google Chrome (late summer, 2008) and mobile operating system, Android (fall, 2008). Tablet computers have finally reached mass appeal, starting with the consumer-friendly iPad and expanding to devices powered by Android, BlackBerry, and other mobile operating systems. This edition reflects these considerable changes. Most significantly, Chapter 9 focuses exclusively on getting more from your smart phone — a now ubiquitous piece of personal technology that was in its nascence when the previous edition was released. You'll also find new and updated hacks in every chapter, employing tools and operating system features that weren't available three years ago. Every OS-specific hack in this book has been updated to work with the most recent versions of Windows and Mac OS X. Lifehacker Table of ContentsChapter 1: Control Your EmailHack 1 Level: Easy | June 20th, 2011 Top Stories
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By Richard Lawson Don't Quit Your Day Job, Ryan ReynoldsCanada's answer to a question nobody asked has rolled out his big superhero picture and it's not quite a hit. Meanwhile, another Canadian, name of Jim Carrey, isn't faring so well either. 1) The Green Lantern — $52.7M 2) Super 8 — $21M 3) Mr. Popper's Penguins — $18.2M 8) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — $6.2M 14) The Art of Getting By — $700K | June 20th, 2011 Top Stories |