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Rechner cuts time out of your addition and subtraction by using swipe gestures to make calculations, rather than on screen buttons.
While the interface may take a bit of getting used to, the gestures are definitely nicer and faster than pressing a button—and it makes the other buttons bigger so they're easier to tap, too. It only has gestures for addition, subtraction, equals, and clear—not multiplication and division, strangely—but you can access a number of other functions by swiping down. The developers claim its "200% more efficient" than a traditional calculator—though that's probably only true if your main operations are addition and subtraction. When you add other things into the mix, swiping down to access those buttons can make the whole thing more inefficient pretty quickly. We'd really like to see gestures for multiplication and division—like diagonal swipes (why isn't this in there already?)—but for now, it's a pretty cool alternative to iOS' default calculator app. Check out the video above to see it in action.
Android: Our favorite ereader for Android, Aldiko, rolled out a tablet version that spans the entire display and is tweaked for reading ebooks on a larger screen. The layout is much more landscape friendly if you have it in landscape mode, and best of all, it's still completely free.
The new version is still missing a few features, but it comes with all of the features of the phone version laid out in a tablet-friendly format. The home screen displays your library on the right on a bookshelf and the app menu on the left. When you open a book, you can toggle light or dark backgrounds, change the font size and type, adjust the margins, supports bookmarking, highlighting, and more.
The tablet version of Aldiko is available now, for free, at Google Play. Do you have a favorite ereader for your Android tablet? Share your thoughts on the new version—and your alternatives—in the comments below.
We all know that a sharp knife is a cook's best friend, but beyond that, dull knives are flat out dangerous, and the cause for more kitchen injuries than sharp knives are. But how do you determine if your knife is actually sharp? The folks from America's Test Kitchen suggest grabbing a standard sheet of paper, and trying to slice through it, as shown in the video here. If your knife makes it, it's sharp. If not, it's time to hone that blade.
We've discussed how to hone a kitchen knife in the past, so if your knives fail the paper test, you can easily re-align the edge of the blade so it cuts more efficiently and won't give you unnecessary resistance when you try to slice through fruits and vegetables. More importantly though, with a sharp blade, the knife will go where you want it to go and won't behave unpredictably—which means it won't nick your hand or finger while you're trying to make dinner.
So head to your kitchen and give this one a try—just make sure you recycle the scraps of paper when you're done. Know this tip already? Have a better way to determine how sharp a knife really is? Let us know in the comments below.
60-Second Video Tips: Is Your Knife Sharp Enough? | YouTube via America's Test Kitchen (Google+)
Android: If your phone has a good camera on it, why would you need a separate app to grab a head-on shot of paper? In the case of Handy Scanner, it straightens and fixes perspectives, enhances readability, makes multi-page documents easy, and pushes PDFs quickly to wherever you'd like.
Perhaps the most helpful feature of Handy Scanner is its perspective tool, which asks you to quickly outline the paper you just snapped, and then analyzes the image to flatten it out. After that, you get a handful of tools to make the text more readable, to convert the image to grayscale, and make other fixes. Finally, you can either add more pages, or if you're done, send a full PDF out through whatever services are in your Android "Share" menu—Dropbox, Google Docs, whatever you like. Or you can simply save the PDF to your Android storage space.
Handy Scanner is available as a free download, with a few token limitations—number of pages per document and watermarks among them. The Pro version is $3.99.
Just because you aren't Tim Gunn doesn't mean you have an excuse for looking like a slob. Whether you're closet's feeling a little dull or like a full-out disaster, here are a few tricks that will give your existing clothes a new lease on life.
Step one is, obviously, making sure your clothes are clean. We all hate laundry, but there are a lot of things you can do to speed it up, not to mention make it even more effective. Try adding a dash of pepper to your laundry to keep those colors bright, or washing those dry-clean-only clothes at home on the cheap. And when you're done, make sure you know how to properly iron them—though if you hate ironing that much, you can always cheat and get rid of wrinkles with a damp towel or a spray bottle—it'll still look better than a wrinkled mess. Give your shoes a nice run through the washing machine, too—or, if they're leather, learn how to polish them (or just give them a quick buff with a banana).
It's some law of the universe that the only time you stain your clothes is when you're wearing your favorite shirt. Luckily, you don't need to throw in the towel just yet. We've featured countless ways to remove stains with household items (including underarm stains), thus saving you a sad trip to the wastebasket. You can also revive old, dirty shoes with baking soda and laundry detergent (though I've found a quick scrub with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser works wonders), and de-stink them with cat litter or a dryer sheet. Stick them in the freezer if they have gum on them, and fix scuff marks with a pencil eraser. When you're done, it'll be like you have a brand new pair of shoes.
Stains aren't the only thing that can ruin your clothes, of course. If you've lost a button or two, you don't need to wait for your next trip to mom's house to sew new ones on—it's really easy to do. You can also fix any size issues yourself, so long as you know the basics of sewing—which we'd argue everyone should know. If a drawstring is your issue, you can re-thread it with a straw. You can also fix sweater snags with nail polish, fix a stuck zipper with Windex, or fix a loose zipper with a key ring. And, if your clothes are a little itchy, you can get rid of their labels without scissors, or de-itch wool items with vinegar or hair conditioner.
If some of your clothes just don't have the luster they used to, take some of those DIY skills and turn them into something new. Old t-shirts can be sun bleached or given new patterns with a tracing box, and those old ties from the 70s can be slimmed down with those sewing skills we mentioned earlier. You can even turn a pair of laced shoes into slip-ons, if you just can't stand tying your shoes anymore (though you could always just learn how to do it in two seconds, too). If, in the end, you need to get rid of a few things, learn how to weed out your old clothes effectively, and see if you can host a clothing swap to get a new wardrobe for free.
Once you've got your newly-cleaned, revived, and repurposed wardrobe, learning a new style trick or two can tie everything together and make your clothes feel brand new. Keep your collars crisp by storing them all buttoned up, and if you wear a lot of ties, make sure you know how to properly match them to your shirt. You might also try learning a new tie knot, whether it be one of the basics or something a bit more offbeat like the Merovingian knot (or, dress your blazer down with a pocket square instead). In the end, just remember: only experiment with one item of clothing at a time to keep yourself looking like an adult.
There's nothing wrong with buying new clothes, of course—we've shared numerous tips on that front, too, from buying a suit online to buying shoes in the afternoon and even finding the perfect-fitting shirt. But, if you don't have the money to plop down on a host of new clothes, you'd be surprised how far a bit of attention to detail can go. If you have any of your own tips to share, be sure to do so in the comments below.
Love wine but don't have the time, patience, or inclination to aerate your wine in a decanter forever before drinking? Former Microsoft CTO and master chef Nathan Myhrvold suggests a method he calls "hyperdecanting". Sounds fancy and high-tech, right? It's basically shorthand for "put your wine in a blender for a minute and it'll taste better".
Just about anyone who enjoys an occasional glass of wine will initially recoil at the idea. (I did.) Wine has an almost mystical quality for most of us, and surely only an unsophisticated fool would dump a perfectly good bottle of wine into a blender. But Myhrvold takes a scientific approach to food, the culmination of which can be found in his insane $450 book Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, and in an article last year in Bloomberg Businessweek, he explains his method:
I just pour the wine in, frappé away at the highest power setting for 30 to 60 seconds, and then allow the froth to subside (which happens quickly) before serving. I call it "hyperdecanting."
Although torturing an expensive wine in this way may cause sensitive oenophiles to avert their eyes, it almost invariably improves red wines—particularly younger ones, but even a 1982 Château Margaux. Don't just take my word for it, try it yourself.
In his article, Myhrvold goes on to suggest how you might set up your own blind taste test to "determine with scientific rigor whether your tasters prefer the hyperdecanted wine". While we haven't given hyperdecanting a go just yet, decanting is a common practice, and at least in theory, hyperdecanting seems to make sense. A few folks have documented their hyperdecanting efforts, including all-things-four-hours author Tim Ferriss, a hyperdecanter who uses a submersion blender:
The wine obsessives at Vinum Vita tried it out, too (video at the top of the post), and at least seemed to agree that it changes the flavor of the wine.
Ever hyperdecant your wine? Share how it worked for you in the comments. As for us: We've got a (cheap) bottle of wine waiting to be blended this weekend.
How to Decant Wine with a Blender | Bloomberg Businessweek via Four Hour Workweek
Japanese TV game shows are always entertaining and this one is no exception. You'll find a few hacks for your morning routine, including brushing your teeth while you shimmy into your pants and using a safety pin to button your collar.
We mentioned this crazy video a few years ago, but that source video was pulled. Now a new one is resurfacing and it's well worth an enjoyable eight minutes of your time.
How to get up, have breakfast and get ready for work in 5 mins! | YouTube via Reddit
Adobe has released a free public beta of Photoshop CS6. It comes packed with all the features of the potential retail program which include improvements to the handy content-aware system, an expanded video editing tool, and more.
Adobe is touting a bunch of new features in this version, but the biggest changes come in its new content-aware tools that let you quickly move subjects around in a photo and its new interface. It also comes packed with new video editing tools that allow you to edit timelines and create simple Photoshop-based filters. A ton of new features are packed in here, including a handy new blur tool, better cropping, layer improvements, and more.
It's not clear how long before the beta expires, but the catches seem pretty minimal. You have to create an Adobe ID in order to use the beta, but it's free and you get unfettered access to Photoshop. If this is your first time digging into Photoshop, be sure to hit up our Night School guide to learn the basics. Have you given the new beta a whirl? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Pomegranates are one of the best parts of Winter, but they take a lot of work to peel and deseed. YouTube user NaturalMarketer shows us how much time we've wasted by deseeding an entire pomegranate in mere seconds.
All you need to do is cut it in half as normal, push out the center a bit, then just start whacking the back of it with a wooden spoon. If done correctly, all the seeds should fall right out into the bowl. Check out the video above to see this genius trick in action.
TweetDeck's new non-AIR client was a little lacking in features when it first came out, but today it received a major update that makes it much more tempting. New features include full support for Twitter lists, inline media previews, a new format for retweets, and more.
The inline image previews are arguably the best part of this new update, showing you pictures and videos inside the stream, without requiring you to click on a link. The new lists feature is nice if you're a fan of Twitter lists, though, and the new Activity and Interactions columns are an interesting way to keep up with your Twitter friends. They've also updated the retweet feature, now allowing you to use the "RT @username tweet" format rather than the less popular quote format.
Its filters still aren't as advanced as the old TweetDeck, and it's still missing a few of the AIR client's other great features, but if you've been waffling between the two, these new features might be enough to tip the scales. Hit the link to read more about the new version, or check out the video above for a quick tour.
Happen to have an old hard drive laying around that you need a project for? WonderHowTo blogger Samimy Productions shows off a way to upcycle a dead hard drive into a cellphone stand and charger, a LED light, and a secret flash drive.
The hard drive is repurposed into an insane desktop tool that kicks power to the cell phone and the LED. The best feature is a hidden flash drive inside the hard drive that won't be detected by a computer unless you trigger it with the external light. If you're holding on to some top secret data this seems like a useful place to hide it. Hit up the post below for the schematics.
DIY How to Hack a Hard Drive to Hidden Flash Drive, LED Light, Cellphone Charger | WonderHowTo via Hack a Day
This week on Ask Lifehacker we're not talking about the new iPad, but what we'd buy instead. Firefox 11 finally brings add-on sync and March Madness proves that piracy isn't always the best option when you want to watch TV online. Also, we extend a Wi-Fi signal from a house to a barn, figure out a use for OS X's dashboard, and start training for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
You can watch the episode by clicking the play button above, but there are plenty of other ways to get it:
This week we're not talking about the new iPad, Firefox 11 finally gets add-on sync, Dropbox offers another 3GB of free space to beta testers, and paying to watch March Madness online is actually better than stealing it.
00:34 The new iPad comes to stores (but here's what you can buy instead) The iPad still dominated the news cycle a week after its announcement, but we're not going to talk about it. Instead, we discussed what we'd buy instead. Pash picked a new Apple TV ($99), Whitson went for the Nook Simple Touch ($99), Dachis opted for home improvements ($?), Melanie picked a fancy new bicycle ($500), and Alan decided it was time for a souped-up home theater PC. (Some of us actually did upgrade to the new iPad, though.)
02:25 Firefox 11 Keeping with its rapid upgrade schedule, Firefox 11 was released and came with a highly-desired feature: add-on sync. Firefox users have been missing this option for quite awhile, as it has been glaringly present in Chrome for over a year, but it has finally arrived.
03:58 Get 3GB free Dropbox space! Love Dropbox as much as we do? They're offering 3GB of free space if you want to beta test a new version. You get to check out the latest Dropbox app and get free space? That seems like a pretty sweet deal. The only downside is that if you nabbed some free space the last time they offered it to beta testers you won't be able to take advantage this time around.
06:52 Paying for March Madness is better than stealing it! A shocking surprise: a media company has actually provided a way to consume media online that's a better alternative to piracy. For $4, you can watch all the March Madness games. If you're a cable subscriber, you may not have to pay at all.
Each week we answer five questions from readers and listeners. Here's what we tackled this week.
11:51 How can I extend the range of my router through a hill and to a barn? Not without a repeater! But you can make one out of an old router easily. Also, installing custom firmware DD-WRT will allow you to boost your router's transmit signal a little bit. You can also boost that signal slightly with a cooking strainer, but that's not going to help you get past the hill and to the barn. Your best bet is probably going to be buying an industrial router and using the old one as a repeater, actually extending Ethernet cable to the barn, or getting cellular internet by tethering your phone or just using an independent device.
15:30 How can I get an app made with no coding skills? You should be careful about trying to make an app when you don't know how. You should at least learn the basics so you understand how programming works and be informed when you're discussing plans with a developer you hire. Since you only have the idea, you want to be able to communicate as effectively as possible with your developer(s) and that involves knowing at least a little bit about programming. If you want to hire a developer, of course, you're going to need some cash. Kickstarter is often a good way to raise it.
You want to avoid hiring just anybody, though. If you seek out a developer simply looking for work you'll end up hiring someone who is pretty much in it just for the money. Ideally you want someone interested in your idea as well. To find someone like that, go where the developers go. Join developer forums online and get to know people. You might just meet the person for your project.
But if you really want to do it yourself and won't learn how to code, tools like AppMakr will create apps with no coding skills required. What you can do with these apps is pretty limited, but it might be better than nothing. Alternatively, if you are just afraid of learning Objective C or Java and want a framework to help, Corona uses a very simple language called Lua to create iOS and Android apps. Alternatively, Adobe Flash can create iOs and Android apps as well, but you're slightly limited by how much you can really do.
18:30 How can I put OS X Lion on my Core Duo MacBook? Not easily, but it is do-able! Basically, you need to trick your MacBook into thinking that it's a Lion-friendly machine or remove its hard drive and install it via another computer. This OS X Daily Article will walk you through the whole process.
21:08 Are there any OS X widgets that sync well with iOS apps? While most of us feel the OS X Dashboard is becoming a little obsolete in a world of widget-friendly mobile devices, there definitely are widgets worth adding. DashNote adds Simplenote functionality, which will let you sync notes from your computer to virtually any other machine, mobile device, and (of course) the Simplenote webapp. On top of that, Dachis likes Delivery Status for package tracking and Whitson likes iStat for system monitoring (even though he doesn't use OS X anymore). Also, never underestimate the usefulness of web clips. If you can't find the widget you're looking for, see if you can clip the same functionality from a web site.
24:12 How do I host a website from Dropbox? Put the files in your public folder and copy the public links. (Details here.) DropPages and Pancake can help make the process a little easier, and Scriptogr.am can turn your Dropbox into a blog.
Each week we talk about our favorite downloads. Here are our picks for this week.
27:17 Social Fixer (Web Browser) Whitson discovered that Facebook can be a whole lot better with one browser extension called SocialFixer. Last week he detailed all the great things it can do, but he really loves how it fixes the way Facebook hides some of the messages you receive in an inbox buried deep within the user interface. You can also use it to find out who has unfriended you, turn off the chat bar, filter stuff, and much more. It pretty much works with whatever web browser you use, so if you want a better Facebook you should have no trouble using Social Fixer to get just that.
Download SocialFixer (Free)
30:07 Zombies, Run! (iPhone) Dachis spent this week training for the inevitable zombie apocolypse with a game called Zombies, Run!. It throws you into a story where your helicopter crashes in the small village known as Abel Township. You're then required to run as fast as you can—literally—to escape the zombies that are after your brains. It works by tracking your GPS location as you run to judge distance and pace. You'll pick up items and earn achievements as you go. The farther you run, the farther you'll move along in the story. If fear motivates you, this app is a great way to get off your butt and exercise.
Download Zombies, Run! ($8)
32:38 Sparrow (iPhone) Pash started using Sparrow for iPhone and found it to be everything you'd want from a mobile email client even though it can't send push notifications. Everyone agreed that push notifications aren't all that necessary, since you can just make the built-in Mail app offer notifications and then just view the message in Sparrow instead. On the other hand, sometimes it's nice to not be notified at all and just check your email when you want to check it. If you do want real push notifications in Sparrow, however, you can use this jailbreak tweak.
Sparrow offers proper Gmail support and plenty of features that make your inbox much more manageable. Check out our review for more information.
Chrome: Streak is a new web service and Chrome extension that adds a ton of useful features to your Gmail account, including the ability to compose messages and schedule them to be sent at a later date, text expansion that works by menu or keyboard command, and the ability to manage your personal projects, whether you're planning an event with multiple people, scheduling a vacation, or otherwise just want to keep track of a project that involves lots of people and even more emails in your inbox.
Streak was built as a CRM-tool for business types who want to track their sales and leads, but the service has strong personal appeal as well. The "send later" feature integrates completely with Gmail, and your composed message lives in the Drafts folder until its scheduled time, when it'll be sent without you having to be logged in to Gmail to see it go. The "snippets" feature is essentially Gmail-only text expansion, and it works just like canned messages—you can create expanded text and save it, and then toggle it from the menu, or by pressing a keyboard command you can specify when you configure the snippet.
Beyond the basics, Streak also allows you to create "pipelines," or different types of projects you want to use Streak to manage. The company has tutorials where people use the service for everything from bug tracking to fundraising to event planning. Inside each pipeline is a "box," or an individual to-do or sub-project. You can kick off a box by selecting a message or conversation from your inbox, giving it a name, and the box will be created with all of the necessary people added to the contacts for that box. This way you can keep track of who's involved in your project and what they're doing. Adding new to-dos and assigning them to the right part of your project is as simple as clicking "new box" and typing in the details. When you've added all of your to-dos, you can group or filter them based on tags, the stage of your project they're in, who's responsible for them, and more.
Streak is completely free to use, and it does require access to your Google account in order to work. You don't give Streak your password—you grant it access via OpenID, and the service's privacy FAQ makes it clear what they can and can't see. If you're looking for a to-do manager or project tool that's more robust than Google Tasks but still integrates with Gmail like a dream, Streak is seriously worth a look.
If you do not have the time or skill to edit your videos locally before you upload them to the popular video hosting site YouTube, you’d probably grew fond of the video editor that YouTube added last year to the site. While pretty basic in functionality, it can be used to correct a few issues with your videos. Features offered include trimming and rotating, as well as adding effects and exchanging the audio of the video.
YouTube has just announced a new feature that they have added for users who upload videos to the video platform. One-click video improvements are now available to all video uploaders. Videos get automatically analyzed by YouTube when they are uploaded, and users will now be informed if videos could be improved automatically.
When you upload a video that could use a fixup, you’ll see a notification bar on the Upload page and in your Video Manager. Click the button to fix it, and you’ll see a side by side preview to decide if you want to accept the edits.
A preview of the optimized version is displayed next to the original. You can now click on the okay button to go ahead with the optimization, or click on no thanks to keep the video in its original form. Users who do not like the new feature at all can furthermore check the don’t ask me again box to never be bothered by the new feature again.
According to the post on the official YouTube blog, the optimizer can fix videos that are either too dark or too shaky.
It is also interesting to note that the original video can be restored at a later point in time. Mobile video uploaders apparently won’t get the notification right away. They do however see the suggestions when they open YouTube from a desktop PC.
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The best moments you capture on film are often the roughest. Luckily, If you're uploading a video for sharing, YouTube automatically detects your video's problems and asks you to click just one button to fix them. YouTube's editor previously offered a stabilization method that took hours, but this is just an "I'm Feeling Lucky" for video. Google says the feature is rolling out to YouTube accounts, so look for it soon if you don't see it today.
Improving video awesomeness with one click | YouTube Blog Related Stories
If you download a lot of videos from the Internet, you probably end up with them being in different video formats, unless you happen to download them all from one source. Even then, you may sometimes feel the need to change the video format, for instance to make it compatible with a smartphone or mobile device, or a standalone media player that is connected to your television.
Kirara Encoder is a free portable multimedia encoder for the Windows operating system. It uses the ffmpeg library for the encoding of video files which ensures compatibility with the majority of popular media formats. Compatibility includes avi, flv, mkv, mpeg, divx and xvid, as well as H.263/264 and all popular audio formats.
When you start the program you are presented with a great looking interface. A click on the Add button lets you add supported videos to it right away. You can preview videos with a double-click, or right-click individual videos to select the audio and video track you want converted. The popular MPlayer is used for the previewing, so that all supported video formats should play just fine. A click on Preset opens a selection of output formats. The majority are mobile presets, for various Android and Apple smartphones and devices, as well as other mobile phones and a handful of desktop formats. Once you have made that selection, you may first want to click on the settings button in the lower right corner of the screen to configure the output format exactly the way you want them to be.
This also lets you change the output type, which is handy if the desired type was not available as a preset. You can use the menu to add your own presets to the program. Here you configure video quality settings, audio settings, subtitles and a bunch of other parameters that advanced users will like. To throw some features into the room, how do changing the bitrate, framerate and passes, video filters, custom resolutions, flipping and rotation, subtitle positioning or file size limitations sound?
The program displays information about the video output in the main interface. Once you are satisfied with your selection, you can click on the start button to start the encoding process. A preview is shown during the encoding process.
Many of the program’s features are hidden in the interface. You can right-click a video for instance and select Segment / Crop from the context menu to crop the video or segment it. This is done directly in Kirara Encoder.
Verdict
A great program for all versions of Windows from Windows XP to Windows 8, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. If you are looking for a versatile video converter that is easy to use but with advanced features for experienced users, I suggest you give it a try.
Readers offer their best tips for avoiding blinding phone screens in the dark, downloading blocked Android apps, and improving the isolation of your headphones. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page.Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker.com, or share it on our tips and expert pages.
The search team at Google has created a short video that puts all the useful stuff you can do on Google.com, plus some search tricks, in one place.
The search team at Google has created a short video that puts all the useful stuff you can do on Google.com, plus some related search tips and tricks, in one place.
If you are a “power” Google user, you may not find anything new in this video but for the rest of us, this is a good recap of the kind of searches you can perform at Google.com.
And I just learned that you can drag images from the desktop and drop them on to the Google Images website and it will find similar images on the Internet – that’s much faster than using the “Browse” button.
This video tutorial explains how you can send form data from Google Docs in an email message using the very useful Send Mail function of Google Docs.
Whether you are looking to add a basic “Contact Me” form to your website or need to create a complex online poll with conditional branching, Google Docs is an excellent tool for you. It offers a variety of themes, data can be easily exported and, unlike other polling software, your Google Docs forms can accept any number of responses without the fee.
There’s one limitation though. Google Docs can send email notifications as soon as people submit your online form but, as shown in the above screenshot, there’s no form data included in that email message. You’ll have to open the corresponding Google Docs spreadsheet to see that actual form data which is not always a very convenient option.
Should you wish to receive Google Docs form data in an email message as soon as a user submits the form, there’s an easy workaround as explained in the following video.
The trick is that you associate a send mail routine with your Google Docs form that triggers as soon as a “form submit” action happens. And this routine, written using Google Apps Script, does all the magic – it reads the form values that were just submitted and sends them all in one message to a pre-defined address.
Here’s how you can add email capabilities to your Google Forms step by step:
Create a new form in Google Docs (or use any of your existing forms) and switch to the Spreadsheet view.Go to Tools –> Script Editor and copy-paste the following code in that code editor window. Replace the value of variable “email” with your own email address.function sendFormByEmail(e){ // Remember to replace XYZ with your own email address var email = "XYZ"; // Optional but change the following variable // to have a custom subject for Google Docs emails var subject = "Google Docs Form Submitted"; // The variable e holds all the form values in an array. // Loop through the array and append values to the body. var message = ""; for(var field in e.namedValues) { message += field + ' :: ' + e.namedValues[field].toString() + "\n\n"; } // This is the MailApp service of Google Apps Script // that sends the email. You can also use GmailApp here. MailApp.sendEmail(email, subject, message); // Watch the following video for details // http://youtu.be/z6klwUxRwQI // By Amit Agarwal - www.labnol.org}Next go to Triggers –> Current Script’s Triggers and associate the Send Mail function with “On Form Submit” event.Save the Google script, authorize Google Docs to access your Gmail account (for sending email) and you’re done.
Advanced users can further customize the script to have custom email subject lines that match one of the form fields. Alternatively, you can specify the form submitter’s email address as the replyto address and thus you can directly respond to the user by replying to that email notification.
Also see: Perform Mail Merge in Gmail using Google Docs
The next time someone asks you "Why should I use Twitter," or "How would I get started with Evernote," instead of sighing deeply and writing a massive email to them or directing them to a useless help page, send them over to Grovo. Grovo is a free site full of video tutorials and online classes that are easy to follow and cover some of the web's biggest and most popular services, like Gmail, Amazon, Pinterest, Wordpress, and more.
If you're reading Lifehacker, you probably know about most of these services already, use them, or at least know how to use them if you choose to, but you may also be the person that others ask for help if they're not familiar with what exactly Twitter is and how they should get started with it, for example, or what exactly Facebook Timeline is and why they're getting it. Grovo's video walkthroughs explain the features, and test the viewer's knowledge with quizzes and questions along the way.
The service is free (although there's a $9/month, $99/year premium option for business users, which offers training on topics like "managing a social media presence" and "online marketing."), and requires you tie it to your Facebook account to sign up (a downer for some people, we know.) Once you're logged in and through the service's somewhat annoying tutorial, you can browse all of the courses available, select the one you're interested in taking or sharing, and start it at any time. If you use Facebook, you can invite your Facebook friends to join your "classroom" and take the classes you're taking—or that you think they should take. Whether you're looking to build your own skills or help someone else out, Grovo may be able to help.
The next time someone asks you "Why should I use Twitter," or "How would I get started with Evernote," instead of sighing deeply and writing a massive email to them or directing them to a useless help page, send them over to Grovo. Grovo is a free site full of video tutorials and online classes that are easy to follow and cover some of the web's biggest and most popular services, like Gmail, Amazon, Pinterest, Wordpress, and more.