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Managing citations well can save you loads of time. I do this with Zotero. It is free for everyone, open source, and always getting better. It has a great community of users including one who created a very useful python script to rename PDF files.
A new version came out today, which allows you to backup your precious database to their servers for free, and follow other researchers (akin to twitter). If you want to see my library, request to follow me. In the mean time, check out the main developers library.
One of my favorite things about zotero is that is standards compliant. It makes use of the COinS standard. More on this later. Good descriptions on what else is new, here and here.
What citation manager do you use? Use Zotero? Give a shout out…
Gmail goes offline
2009
I must have been snoozing because offline gmail came out a few weeks ago and I missed it. This should be extremely useful. There has even been a new release already.
Many people are unaware that you can add dots to your gmail adddress. Instead of putting tim@gmail.com I could put t.im@gmail.com, and it would still get to me. I can give online stores my t.im@gmail address, and then filter out those messages if I wish.