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techZING! 9 – I’m Not An Uberman, But I Did Use jQuery Last Night

July 11th, 2009 Justin

Google OS, Startup Idea, Fake Steve Jobs, Life Hacking, Polyphasic Sleep, YQL, Sharding, Pirate Bay, Tables for Page Layout, IE / IFrame Popover Hack, Glow JS Library, Migrating to JQuery and Tom Williams Hired by Apple at 14

  1. July 15th, 2009 at 10:14 | #1

    Couple of comments on the show:
    1) For formatting documents for printing, try the Readability plugin (http://lab.arc90.com/2009/03/readability.php , http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ). It also makes sites much more pleasant to read.
    2) I did the Uberman version of polyphasic sleep for a couple weeks (http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/category/polyphasic/ ). It worked really well but I didn’t have enough control over my schedule to keep it up. I can’t imagine this working well for anyone with a family, even though Steve Pavlina did it (http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ )

    Love the show, keep up the good work!

  2. July 16th, 2009 at 07:47 | #2

    Check out an awesome service called Instapaper. It does about 3/4 of what you want. It provides a little bookmarklet to “Read Later”. As I browse from site to site, I click my “Read Later” bookmarklet to send that URL to Instapaper. Instapaper will create a text-only version of the site which I can read later. It will even create a printable version complete with newspaper-like 3 column layout. There is even an iPhone application for it. I use this service all the time. It has become part of my daily workflow.

  3. Justice Conder
    July 23rd, 2009 at 14:03 | #3

    Hey Jason,
    I used to do the same thing! I would spend all this time printing out articles, blogs, and wikis so that i could read them in bed at night or later on the couch. You should get a Kindle. I got the Kindle DX and i dont print anything out anymore. I either go directly to the url on the Kindles browser or just save the page as text and drag and drop it onto the kindle. It saves a lot of paper and time, plus i get a bunch of digital programming books for free that i would normally have to pay for (the hard copies). Keep up the great work guys. I love the show!!

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