BarryBlog: The Week In Review

Lifehacker offers a weekly summary which I find helpful. So what the hey? Why not me? Here's BarryBlog's Week In Review, which may or may not be a permanent fixture here.

When To Use Flash Entirely: A Flow Chart

Calling All B-Ballers

In A Pinch: An Emergency Light Source

10 Minute Mail: Temporary Email Goodness

Studio Gearbox: Always on Their Game?!

BarryBlog MacOSX Tips-N-Tricks

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scanR: To the Rescue

scanR: To the Rescue

Brainstorming's been going strong for what's approaching an hour, and all of a sudden you hit upon the most ridiculously innovative idea in your career. To say the excitement in the room is high is an understatement. Looking at the clock, everyone agrees a break is another good idea, so everyone leaves for an agreed upon 15 minutes. Upon return...pure horror! A small team from across the hall has mistakenly deemed the room available and has set up shop— completely erasing the whiteboard. Yes, THE whiteboard. The one with that once in a career idea. Enter ScanR. No more whiteboard erase problems. Just take a digital shot of the whiteboard, or multiple shots if you want to erase one and fill more, then send the photo to ScanR from your phone and it's immediately emailed to whatever account you want, as a fully editable PDF. It works for whiteboards, pretty much any document, and even business cards. Now I haven't tried it myself, but I plan to. If you do and you like it, let everyone know by leaving a comment. Here are some examples showing the original photo and the resulting PDF of whiteboards, documents and business cards. Let me know what you find. 'Cuz after all, FactsR Friendly.

( via Lifehacker's Top10 PDF tricks )

10 Minute Mail: Temporary Email Goodness

How many times have you tracked down something of interest only to discover a road block on a site requiring you to create a new account? Very often that's a deal breaker for me, not only because of the time factor, but also due to the potential cat out of the bag that providing a real email causes later on. Shortly thereafter the SPAM mail starts rolling in. Well, no longer. Enter 10 Minute Mail. The email account you can apply for, no questions asked, that expires after 10 minutes. 10 minutes is generally enough time for all auto-responders to send the typical confirm email, and in this case, it shows up on their website instead of a client side email app. Sweet! Your MIS department will love you for this.

( via the brilliant Lifehacker )

In A Pinch: An Emergency Light Source

( via lifehacker )

A Freelancer's Friend

Freelancers will enjoy Freelance Switch – a site I discovered via the gang at Lifehacker. The site needs no introduction, so if you're new to freelancing or been at it for some time, have at it.