Once a week we round up some great reader tips and share them with everyone; this week we’re looking at telescope laser sights, syncing your desktop with Dropbox, and converting your Kindle Clippings file.
Mount a Laser On Your Telescope for Easy Alignment
Carl shares a hack for sighting in a large telescope:
We have a green laser pointer… now we just need a telescope cool enough to mount it on. Thanks for sharing!
Sync Your Desktop with Dropbox
Travis wrote in to share a guide he created to help others sync their desktops via Dropbox. While not everyone works off their desktop in such a fashion that syncing is critical, for those that use their desktops as a work space it’s a handy trick. He writes:
Check out his full guide to get started with desktop syncing.
All the time, my friends and family tell me my computer’s desktop is “so messy.” That’s not true. It is organized, but usually has a lot of stuff on it. When working, I use my computer desktop, as an actual desktop… The things I am currently using and/or working on are right there and easy for me to use. That is actually the point of the desktop, right?
I don’t always work from one physical location, so it is a bit of a chore to make sure I have transferred files to a location (such as USB drive or FTP site) so I can access them later. As well, should I really need to pull out my laptop to grab a single .php file or .psd? I don’t think so.
Using Dropbox as my desktop allows everything I am working on to be available everywhere I work, without even thinking about it.
Convert Your Kindle Clippings to Other Formats
Alejandro, in response to our post about The Secret Weapon, a tool for using Evernote to manage your to-do lists, shared an Evernote-related tool:
If you have clippings in your Kindle that you’d like to incorporate into your Evernote archive/workflow this is a very handle tool. Thanks Alejandro!
Also just want to share something I discovered recently. There is a free online tool which you can use to upload your Kindle “my clippings” directly to Evernote. You can also convert your clippings to others like Word or PDF, just in case you prefer those format more. Hope you can find this tip useful.
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