Looking for an easy way to get simple technology tasks done, that doesn't require any IT intervention? CIO.com blogger Mark Gibbs has a solution: Ifttt.

Every task in Smallpdf starts with dragging a file to your browser window. Michael Ansaldo/IDG On balance, Smallpdf is a solid editor for making simple changes to PDF documents on the fly.

Gina and Adam P. told me, when I first started at Lifehacker, that their to-do lists were simple text files. "Crazy Amish reactionaries," I thought. Now I'm on Team Plain Text, and I won't go back ...