Sharp Skirts

I work in technology because I love it and I especially love little gadgets and whizmos that make my life easier. Of course my “easier” may be someone else’s “what a headache” but that’s the beauty of it. We each get out of a product exactly what we need and no more. A site like Facebook does nothing but perplex some of my friends. (”What the hell is the point?” they ask me and to that I reply, “Would you just play your move in Scrabulous?”) but I happen to think it’s the cat’s pajamas.

Or perhaps they have a “Jesus that’s creepy” reaction to my latest obsession, RescueTime, a little program that sits on my computer and tracks how much time I spend on Web sites and in applications. It has no idea what I’m doing in those applications, which removes the creep factor for me. But it does tell me that I’ve spent six hours working in Outlook this week or, ahem, 30 minutes in the aforementioned Scrabulous. As someone who spends the majority of their day on the computer, a tool like this is invaluable in helping me see where and how I’m using my time.

Web Worker Daily tipped me off to the handy-dandy Firefox add-on Morning Coffee. It opens up multiple sites at once with the click of a button. So if the first thing you do every morning is go to iGoogle, then CNN, then (say it with me now) Scrabulous, load all those sites into your Morning Coffee instead of clicking around like a chump.

Have time-saving, life-easing tech tools you couldn’t live without? Tell us about them in the comments.