You Should Know how To...

On Seth Godin's blog a few weeks back I read a post where he challenged everyone who considers themselves a 'highly skilled knowledge worker' to know how to do the following list:

• Can you capture something you see on your screen and paste it into Word or PowerPoint?
• Do you have a blog?
• Can you open a link you get in an email message?
• Do you read more than five blogs a day?
• Do you have a signature in your outbound email?
• Do you have an RSS reader?
• Can you generate a PDF document from a Word file you're working on?
• Do you know how to build and share a simple spreadsheet using Google Docs?
• Do have a shortcut for sending mail to the six co-workers you usually write to?
• Are you able to find what you're looking for on Google most of the time?
• Do you know how to download a file from the internet?
• Do you back up your work?
• Do you keep track of contacts using a digital tool?
• Do you use anti-virus software?
• Do you fall for internet hoaxes and forward stuff to friends and then regret it?
• Have you ever bought something from a piece of spam?

Now I am writing this blog, I can answer yes to all most of the desirable questions and thankfully have never done the last two but I thought I would put a few links to some useful sites in either directly related to the list above or other online utilities that I have found useful:

Avoid Hoaxes:
http://www.snopes.com/
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
http://www.about-the-web.com/shtml/scams.shtml
http://urbanlegends.about.com/

Sending Long Links in Short format:
http://tinyurl.com/
http://bit.ly/

Keeping up to date with contacts
http://www.linkedin.com

Uploading large files quickly without an ftp:
http://www.yousendit.com/

Remote accessing Your PC online:
https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en
https://www.gotomypc.com/

RSS Feeds:
http://www.google.com/reader/