Recently noted software/services

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

BrandDoozie: Marketing Materials in Minutes. Nice looking tools but still requires a lot of design decision making on your part. Convert any image into an icon — useful Sync AB with Google ... Read more..

Architecture astronauts take over - Joel on Software

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Architecture astronauts take over - Joel on Software — “It’s Groove, rewritten from scratch, one more time. Ray Ozzie just can’t stop rewriting this damn app, again and again and ... Read more..

Where to Find Open Data on the Web

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Where to Find Open Data on the Web - ReadWriteWeb — useful stuff here Read more..

Need a fax service for a couple months

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I don’t want to sign a long term contract or pay a jillion dollars. A quick scan of options: RapidFax. 7.95 a month, 150 pages. 30 day free ... Read more..

Grabbag of software links

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Blog | No Comments »

Switch Between Your Gmail Accounts — hmm this has been an impediment to spawning more accounts Paypal toolbar gens one-off credit card numbers — always liked the one-off credit card idea; ... Read more..

Firefox extensions

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Favorite FireFox Extensions ~ Chris Pirillo — good list. speed dial and flashblock were new to me. Read more..

Why I will probably quit reading Web2.0 blogs

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Headlines/opinions like this — Bombshell: Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org - ReadWriteWeb and This Day Will Be Remembered. Some company joining some random standards group is just not that ... Read more..

The Siren Song of Local Reviews

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Chris discusses The Siren Song of Local Reviews as does Andy. Both these guys have a lot of hard-won scars from their experiences. It is a continually ... Read more..

Recent software of note

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Remember the Googley Milk — major hole on iphone is lack of a todo list. this is my current favorite replacement. Nice PC UI. Flot javascript graphing library. ... Read more..

Online product manuals

Monday, November 5th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Feld Thoughts - Where Did I Put That Manual? — fairly useful. I’m always looking for the manual for that 4 year old device. Read more..

Google Spreadsheets is rocking

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Real Time Collaboration in Google Spreadsheets Rocks at Starting Up by Rahul Pathak — Rahul points out the collab features, very nice And look at the new online data integration features ... Read more..

Recent software/site notes

Friday, August 17th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Windows Live Writer Beta 2 has shipped ? Bogle’s Blog — Phil likes it. Me, I just can’t wrap my mind around installing a blog editor on the 3 ... Read more..

Software links

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

WikiMatrix - Compare them all — lists and compares all the wiki implementations Forummatrix — same dealy for forums MonkeyGTD — the fusion of wikis and GTD ideas is a strong draw ... Read more..

How to get google mail for your domain on the blackberry

Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen turned me onto the fact that you can get your google-hosted email on your blackberry: “I almost like the BlackBerry Gmail app (note, there’s two apps, ... Read more..

Web Service Stuff I Should Learn More About

Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Six Apart - Movable Type News - MT4: Time To Give It A Try — you can run a hosted version of MT4 on Amazon’s EC2 service. When my ... Read more..

Congrats to Walter Smith Et Al

Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

When three ex-MSFTies partner: They’re Beautiful! - istartedsomething — I’d been meaning to notice these guys, looks like they are up to some cool stuff. Not sure how they ... Read more..

Grabbag of useful sites

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

BibMe - the fully automatic & free bibliography maker (MLA, APA & Chicago) — very cool Geni — i’m not really into family trees but this is actually kind of fun. ... Read more..

The master of web domains

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Seems like domain names are all super hot again — Kevin Ham, the $300 million master of Web domains - June 1, 2007 Read more..

Random useful and interesting sites

Sunday, May 13th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Found via StumbleUpon: Google sightseeing — a great way to see satellite photos of interesting world sites Test everything — a jillion tools for testing the construction, seo, and other characteristics of ... Read more..

Recent Software/Services of note

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Amazon S3 storage costs drop – “Finally, this illustrates a subtle but important point of using S3. When I buy physical disks at SmugMug, those are sunk costs. They’ll never ... Read more..

Grab bag of software and service notes

Monday, April 9th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Microsoft Releases FastCGI for IIS | Gadgetopia — once upon a time (3 years ago) I would have been really excited about this. But I am going to certainly ... Read more..

Google and copyrights

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

WhoseTube? Viacom Sues Google Over Video Clips - New York Times — one has to wonder why this is limited to video material. If I am the owner of ... Read more..

Stuff I should have blogged a while ago

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Need a new tiny PC for carrying around — OQO 2.0? One of the small Sonys? I don’t need a desktop replacement, just something small for classroom/cafe use. ... Read more..

gmail mobile

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Google Press Center: Press Release — pretty nice little app on the bberry. motivates me to make more use of gmail. Read more..

ProBargainHunter

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

probargainhunter — all about shopping tips and finding bargains. I stumbled across it while looking at sites related to Judy’s Book. Read more..