Send your snail mail from email with Postful. “Postful, which launched in closed beta this week, allows you to send an email that they will reformat into a physical letter to be sent through snail mail.” [Mashable]
Lifehacker Top 10 Greasemonkey scripts. Especially cool: the invisibility cloak, developed by Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani. Makes time-wasting sites unavailable until after a specific time. You choose which sites you want to make invisible. [Lifehacker]
Job Titles 2.0. Job titles for the next-generation working world. Evangelists, Community Leaders, Futurists, New Media Specialists, Virtual World Bureau Chiefs, Chief Blogging Officers. [Marketing Profs Daily Fix]
New PCs choked with crapware. Walt Mossberg buys a Vista PC only to find it bogged down with trial programs, free offers, and 4GB of full-length movies. Restarting this overloaded machine took more than three minutes, while a new MacBook restarted in 34 seconds under the same test conditions. [Wall Street Journal’s Personal Technology column]
Find your next job in the virtual world. Bain and Company, a global management consulting firm, plans to start looking for summer interns in Second Life. Yet more proof that having an online persona can be great for your career. [My Global Career]
Firefox del.icio.us add-on updated. With the upgraded Firefox add-on, del.icio.us bookmarks are fully integrated into the browser. On installation, you are offered the chance to import your local Firefox bookmarks into del.icio.us. The new sidebar allows you to sort, search, and modify your bookmarks. [del.icio.us blog]
New web office suite launched. Peepel announced the Beta of its web office suite that offers multiple, resizable, stackable, and cascadable windows. It includes a spreadsheet and word processor, with a maps capability and offline work mode due for later release. [Read/Write Web]
Get serious about satisfaction. Three pieces of advice on getting happy from flow expert Csikszentmihalyi: Know what gives you genuine satisfaction (hint: it’s probably not watching TV), study yourself, and take action to change things when you’re unhappy. [Time Magazine via The Happiness Project]
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