Last Monday, I received a phone call from Microsoft’s Mac division, asking if I would like to help them improve Microsoft Office for Mac. My first instinct was to ask them how they’d found me. As it turned out, Microsoft and their henchmen keep their ears to the proverbial (online) street, and had recently encountered my website and found it filled with the sort of feedback and recommendations that they thought would serve their purpose. Since this isn’t exactly a tip or trick, click the link below to read about my visit.
My Visit To Microsoft
April 29th, 2008
Highlight and Share
April 28th, 2008
Just a quick little gem this morning:
I typically send out links to my friends multiple times a day. Whether they like it or not, the links are coming. Well just last week I thought to myself – “wouldn’t it be great if I could highlight certain passages in the webpages that I send out links for, if only to save my friends time and sanity?”
Luckily, someone over at LifeHacker and DownloadSquad must have been thinking on the same wavelength, because they both posted the next day about Awesome Highlighter. Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight as many passages as you want on any webpage, and then send the link to someone else, preserving your highlights. It even creates a short URL for your link, making it easier to share with people. This is great little tool and I highly recommend it. If you don’t believe me, take a look at an example. Enjoy!
PS For those looking for a bit more features, such as adding comments and the like, check out Jump Knowledge, which is also a great tool but a little more complicated.