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Monday, November 19th, 2007You all know that I a) read a ton of RSS feeds (probably over 600 now…and happy to add more) and b) love Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon as my reader of choice. One of the things about being subscribed to that many feeds that after a couple days, the number of unread items tends to get [...]
Google Pack offers StarOffice: next salvo to dislodge MS Office
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007How’s this for a little shocker in the old…I can get this for free department?
Yes, StarOffice, which usually retails for about $80 is now free via Google Pack. So while MSFT is slowly working on Office Live and Zoho is getting decent attention, Google does an end run around both of them:
Google has made [...]
Clipmarks acquired by Forbes
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007I first learned about Clipmarks from Jim after SXSW. I did give it a try, but didn’t have a lot of use for it, since I was still on Blogware so the rapid posting features were but a pipedream for me. Learned today that the folks at Clipmarks have been acquired by Forbes:
Clipmarks, one of [...]
Quick and easy sharing with Share This
Monday, August 6th, 2007Chatting with my friend Oliver Starr today over Skype. he told me about this new app in beta called Share This (beta) (not to be confused with the excellent WP plugin by Alex King also called Share This…which you will see below) which lets you send links to various places, email, MySpace, Facebook.
I’m a skeptic [...]
Jing could make sending a screenshot or screencast painless
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007We got a pre-release tip Monday night on Robert’s public Skype chat that something new and interesting was coming on Tuesday from the folks at TechSmith (makers of Camtasia and SnagIt). Early Tuesday we got the word, and the word was Jing:
‘Jing me!’ I hope that’s a phrase I start to hear more often! I have [...]
Add great features to MSN Messenger 8.x with Messenger Plus Live
Monday, July 9th, 2007 Cruising through Ghacks over the weekend, this caught my eye:
Messenger Plus Live is an add-on for the Windows Live Messenger which adds a multitude of new features to the main program. Messenger Plus Live works with Windows Live Messenger 8 and 8.5 and can be used on Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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The main features of [...]
P2P, IM, and VPN together to form a nice little collaboration application
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Lifehacker singled out Wippien as their featured download on Tuesday, and since I've decided to get back into exploring collaboration, IM, and P2P; Wippien seemed like a good little app to try. So what is Wippien? Here's the info from their homepage (no blog or RSS feed that I could see):
VPN and Instant Messaging - [...]
Live Writer finally updated!
Thursday, May 31st, 2007I have been a big fan of Windows Live Writer (beta) for a while. Good solid app, nice feature set, but… But it hadn't been updated in a long time, plus some annoying bugs (like not getting the post time/date right when pre-posting), made me cool off on it a bit. I've been using BlogDesk [...]
I still like e-mail and still use it, a lot
Monday, April 30th, 2007This post has actually been in the works for days. It started on the the “e-mail sucks” meme. With posts from BBS on how e-mail is broken, and two posts on e-mail bankruptcy (Lifehacker and Web Worker Daily), but yesterday morning Mark pinged me with his article Communications 101. Mark and I must have been [...]
Maxthon as a platform for Web apps and services
Thursday, April 19th, 2007I had a chance to chat with Netanel Jacobsson SVP of Maxthon, which is pronounced like maxton actually I learned (I had to ask!), to talk about Google, Maxthon 2.0, and the future of web apps in general.
Google. If you're hoping that I got some really awesome inside story that sheds light onto all the chatter [...]
Will P2P be the savior of caching services?
Friday, April 13th, 2007Travis and the team at Red Swoosh must be happy campers today with the announcement that caching giant Akamai has purchased them:
The rumors of this deal had been floating around for about two months and Travis Kalanick of Red Swoosh has been avoiding us for a while now, ever since we asked him about the [...]
Giving web-based software a free ride?
Monday, April 9th, 2007Lot of chatter about Microsoft's immanent demise for the past couple days, and I've opted out of the discussion up until now. Yeah I had a a post started, but I just closed the window without saving. Tonight, however, I read Jeremy Wagstaff's post on not the demise of Microsoft, but of software:
But all this [...]
Is the question of whether Apple or Microsoft wins or is the computer changing for all of us
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Last weekend I read this interesting piece about the whole Apple vs Windows debate. If I'm reading this right, Apple is on the right track and is set to conquer the world:
The End of a Monopoly
Combined with the dominance of the iPod over devices using Microsoft's PlaysForSure, the imminent goring of Windows Mobile by the iPhone, [...]
Automise 2 beta Review
Friday, March 2nd, 2007This is a paid review through ReviewMe.
Automise is an app that might be too geeky for me. The premise is that you can automate functions, like most functions, on your machine. Everything from installs, drive maintenance, even ftp connections. The interface looks pretty good. It's clearly not an app for your casual home user, this [...]
Can Google Save Microsoft?
Thursday, March 1st, 2007I was thinking about Google Apps and Microsoft last night. It's pretty obvious that Google has Microsoft scared. This morning I read a Reuters article covering Ray Ozzie's speech to investors in Las Vegas. Ozzie admits that Microsoft could learn a thing or three from the Google folks. The significant revenue from advertising has to [...]
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