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 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 Wired, Popular Science, and PC World; he's authored a book on the iPhone called How to Do Everything with Your iPhone.

Work

• Editor
  Lifehacker: "Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live."
  Read my Lifehacker posts here 
  
• Developer
  Printable Checklist: A simple web application for quickly creating printable checklists.
  
  Texter: An open source, time-saving text replacement and macro application.
  
  To see more, check out my Projects page.
  
• Producer
  Underhyped: A mostly defunct weblog covering pop culture.

Recent Press

• September 28th, 2009
  

  The folks over at New York Daily News asked me a few questions about Google Voice, Google’s transformative phone application.
  

• September 13th, 2009
  

  Sat in this weekend for my good pal Gina Trapani on This Week in Google with Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis. I had a great time, and I think the episode turned out really well. Here’s a direct link to the MP3.
  

• August 3rd, 2009
  

  Updates and tweets and diggs and feeds—social media comes at you from all directions these days. Three services—Flock, FriendFeed, and Streamy—aim to help you get a handle on everything. Read more
  

• May 24th, 2009
  

  I rounded up my favorite tips for getting more from a handful of the best and most popular web sites on the internet in Streamline Your Online Experience at PC World.
  

• April 19th, 2009
  

  Adobe’s AIR platform is rich with cross-platform applications that integrate seamlessly with web content. Here’s a look at 11 of the best.
  

• March 24th, 2009
  

  Go Lifehacker! At SXSW, we beat out some stiff competition to bring home a coveted Bloggie.
  

• March 24th, 2009
  

  Along with Preston Gralla, I compiled 101 Recession-busting sites and downloads for the May issue of PC World.
  

• February 18th, 2009
  

  The folks at TIME named Lifehacker one of the 25 best blogs of 2009, calling us “‘Hints from Heloise’ for the digital age.” Thanks, TIME!
  More press...

Recent Projects

• March 24th, 2009
  

  My pet project for the last couple of years, MixTape.me, is up and running. It’s a web-based music application that lets you create, listen to, learn about, and share playlists quickly and easily. It’s fun. It’s music. It’s free.
  

• February 4th, 2009
  

  Released a silly, simple little web app called Printable Checklist designed to make quick and–you guessed it–printable checklists. You can read more about it on my post at Lifehacker.
  

• June 5th, 2007
  

  Updated Texter to version 0.3 with a lot of feature improvements and a great new design.
  

• May 18th, 2007
  

  Massive update extravaganza: Rocker, Dropcloth, and ClickWhen all release updates.
  

• May 15th, 2007
  

  Pushed ClickWhen, an automated mouse click application, out of the Lifehacker Code birth canal.
  

• May 7th, 2007
  

  Rocker adds mouse navigation rocking to several Windows apps, like Windows Explorer and Firefox.
  

• April 26th, 2007
  

  Swept Away is a simple system tray utility that automatically minimizes applications you aren’t using.
  

• March 9th, 2007
  

  Pushed out a quick second release of Texter complete with lots of bug fixes and Vista compatibility.
  View projects...

Contact

Lifehacker-related email to adam at lifehacker.com
Personal email to adam.pash at gmail.com