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Geek Tip: Sort Any List With the Alphabetizer

GeekSugar — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:25:45 -0800

Remember the good ol' days when you needed to manually go through a list to put it in alphabetical order? Thanks to modern technology and programs like Word and Excel, we can instantly alphabetize our work without having to rehearse our ABCs. If you are working online and you need to quickly alphabetize something, check out Alphabetizer, a site where you can input your data and it will quickly sort your list. Discussed on lifehacker, this simple app also provides options to strip HTML from lists, remove duplicates, and ignore words like "a" or "an." Print or copy your list for later. One thing to note is that the Alphabetizer is case sensitive, so make sure everything is either capitalized or in lower case.

Geek Tip: Drag and Drop in Google Reader

GeekSugar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:35:15 -0700

Sometimes the best geek tips aren't something huge and revolutionary - sometimes they're "duh" things that you either forget you can do, or they're so simple you feel like you should have known but just never learned for some reason.

My "duh" geek tip is being able to use drag and drop in Google Reader to organize your feeds. I've been using the "Manage My Subscription" button ever since I've been a Reader user, and manually going to arrange and organize my feeds. I just found that you can simply drag the feed name in the right margin and drop them into new folders, and out of alphabetical order (which is the default) into whichever order you want.

Do you have any "duh" geek tips?

Geek Tip: Make a Phone Directory of Your Facebook Friends

GeekSugar — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:00:45 -0800

If my recent Facebook stories have freaked you out and you'd rather part ways with the not-so-private, social-networking site, here's a way that will keep you connected to your friends away from the site.

Discussed on Lifehacker, this little tidbit from Digital Inspiration is a great way to get instant access to your friends phone numbers.

Just sign into your Facebook account and visit Facebook phonebook. You'll see all your friends which have their phone numbers visible in alphabetical order.

Print for future reference or use the online version for easy access!

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