Freelance writer and developer
Adam Pash is a freelance writer, programmer, and web developer based in Los Angeles, California. While his interests are varied, Adam spends the majority of his time working as Senior Editor for Lifehacker, a weblog with a focus on software, the internet, and productivity.
Adam's freelance work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Popular Science and GQ, and he's authored a book on the iPhone called How to Do Everything with Your iPhone.
Work
- Senior Editor
Lifehacker: "Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live."
Read my weekly Lifehacker feature, Hack Attack
- Developer
Texter: An open source, time-saving text replacement and macro application.
Dropcloth: Another open source Windows program, handy for clearing your desktop for screenshots and screencasts, or just getting rid of all the distraction in front of you so that you can focus on just one application without closing out of anything or clearing off your desktop. - Producer
Underhyped: A mostly defunct weblog covering pop culture.
Recent Press
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April 8th, 2008
TIME includes Lifehacker in their Top 25 Blogs of 2008, profile included.
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April 5th, 2008
Slate calls Lifehacker one of the best web sites for organizing your life. The article also appeared in The Washington Post.
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March 25th, 2008
Lifehacker was named Best Computer or Technology weblog at the 2008 Bloggies held at SXSW, despite our stiff competition in the form of Wired, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Geekologie.
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January 18th, 2008
A few Windows tricks I’ve posted at Lifehacker have found their way into a book called Tricks of the Microsoft Windows Vista Masters (Amazon). It’s available as a free e-book here (after you wade through some crap). Specifically, my contributions come from these two articles at Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: Using Windows Scheduled Tasks
Hack Attack: Firefox extension packs -
June 25th, 2007
TIME Magazine talks about Lifehacker and all things life hacks.
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June 23rd, 2007
Quoted in the Gainsville Sun discussing the net effect of Google.
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May 7th, 2007
Zen Habits interviews me about productivity, goals, and coding.
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March 12th, 2007
Lifehacker.com takes home a 2007 Bloggie Award for Best Group Weblog at SXSW Interactive.
More press...
Recent Projects
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June 5th, 2007
Updated Texter to version 0.3 with a lot of feature improvements and a great new design.
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May 18th, 2007
Massive update extravaganza: Rocker, Dropcloth, and ClickWhen all release updates.
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May 15th, 2007
Pushed ClickWhen, an automated mouse click application, out of the Lifehacker Code birth canal.
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May 7th, 2007
Rocker adds mouse navigation rocking to several Windows apps, like Windows Explorer and Firefox.
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April 26th, 2007
Swept Away is a simple system tray utility that automatically minimizes applications you aren’t using.
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March 9th, 2007
Pushed out a quick second release of Texter complete with lots of bug fixes and Vista compatibility.
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March 2nd, 2007
Released the first version of Texter, a text replacement application and scripting application. This is by far my favorite coding project, and it doesn’t hurt that we now share the same birthday.
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Contact
Lifehacker-related email to adam at lifehacker.com
Personal email to adam.pash at gmail.com
