Vihjeitä sisältävästä vyöhykkeestä: paikkaperusteiset to-do-muistutukset, DIY-levykeaseman musiikki ja helppokäyttöinen käyttöohjeet

I’ve recently been enjoying a new task-reminder tool called Location Alert. I plug in both the task I need a reminder for and the place I need to be reminded (e.g. when I’m on the same block as the Dry Cleaner I want to be reminded to pick up the dry cleaning). It’s not a perfect app (I’d like it if it would time the reminders based on the time of day so I wouldn’t get reminded to pick up the dry cleaning while walking down the street on my lunch break) but for the most part it works exactly as promised: easy reminders for the tasks you need to do when you’re in the right place to do them.

Noticed the fun videos you guys have posted over the last few weeks/months of floppy-drive created music… if any readers are up for a geeky DIY challenge, I found a set of instructions for building your own floppy-drive “speakers”. I have no idea if this is the way the guys in the videos you’ve shared are doing it but it’s certainly pretty neat.

Manuals are pretty annoying: they take up room, they’re usually filed away or lost when you need them, and you can’t search hard copies. I solved all those problems by putting all my product and game manuals in my Dropbox account. Now whenever I need a manual I can look at it on my iPad, smartphone, or any computer that has access to my Dropbox account and a PDF reader. And the best part is, of course, that I can search every manual for exactly the thing I’m looking for!