Bio

Gina Trapani is a tech writer and web developer based in San Diego, California by way of Brooklyn, New York. The lead editor of Lifehacker.com, a daily weblog on software and personal productivity, Gina has authored two books based on the web site: Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day (Wiley, December 2006) and the second edition, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better (March 2008).

A Sun-certified Java programmer, Gina builds Firefox extensions and web sites. Her writing has appeared in Popular Science, Wired, Women's Health, PC World and Macworld magazines. The Wall Street Journal Online profiled her and her work has also been mentioned in Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, Wired and PC Magazine.

Book

My latest book, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better, is a compendium of all the best hacks from Lifehacker.com's archives, and my personal manifesto on working more efficiently in the digital age.

Check out the official web site of Upgrade Your Life to browse the table of contents, download a sample chapter, and join the mailing list.

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Currently

• Lead Editor
  Lifehacker, the productivity and software guide
    * Read my weekly Lifehacker feature, Geek to Live
• Columnist
  Women's Health magazine
• Lead Developer
  Todo.txt, an open source repository of scripts for managing a text-based personal task list
• Dabbler
  Scribbling.net, a personal tumblelog of random whimsy

Recently

• May 2008
  • Gretchen Rubin of the Happiness Project blog interviews me about what makes me happy.
• April 2008
  • Keynoted the Lifehacking Academy in Amsterdam on April 17th.
  • Published Organize Your Life With Free Online Tools at PC World magazine.
  • Slate includes Lifehacker in their roundup of the best books, articles, and web sites for helping you organize your life. (Also appeared in The Washington Post.)
  • TIME.com includes Lifehacker in their 2008 Top 25 blogs list.
• March 2008
  • The second edition of the Lifehacker book, entitled Upgrade Your Life, is now available! Order your copy now from Amazon or check out the official Upgrade Your Life book web site.
  • Lifehacker.com takes home the Best Computer or Technology Weblog Award at the Eighth Annual Weblog Awards.
  • Appeared on G4's Attack of the Show in a live interview about Lifehacker. View the video clip.
  • The Associated Press interviews me on multi-tasking and email overload.
  • The Austin American-Statesman interviews me about how Lifehacker was born and being nice on the internet.
  • Presented a talk entitled "Personal Productivity is Personal: Choosing What YOU Need to Overclock Your Workday" at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference in San Diego, California.
  • Author Tim Ferriss interviews me about my work styles, routines, and the lines between life and work.
  • Sat on a panel entitled Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting! at the 2008 South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
  • BlogTalkRadio interviews me about Upgrade Your Life.
• February 2008
  • The March issue of Real Simple magazine includes Lifehacker in their list of Best Organizing Blogs (page 127).
• January 2008
  • Presented a talk at Web Directions North about the Firefox extension I compiled, Better Gmail. (Full session description, slide deck and transcript)
  • CBC Radio's Nora Young interviews me about resolutions and New Year's life hacks.
  • Bruce Barber interviews me on his NPR show, "The Real Life Survival Guide."
• More...

Elsewhere

• Flickr photos
• Twitter status
• Wikipedia contributions
• Mozilla Add-ons contributions
• Userscripts.org contributions

Contact

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