Archive for the 'utilities' Category
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
ouch!
They say all publicity is good publicity but this has made it to digg.. and I think I wouldn’t like what is going around if I was this developer.
“My RSS newsreader of choice was NewsFire. It’s a great, polished product. Despite a minor annoyance with the trial version, I slapped down my credit-card for […]
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
New version of Opera?
“I’ve been informed by Thomas Ford at Opera
that we will see the next version of the popular commercial browser
released tomorrow. Opera 9.2 brings in an innovative new feature called
Speed Dial. Speed Dial lets you easily access (up to) your 9 bookmarked
and most frequently visited websites. Speed Dial was first introduced on the […]
Posted in mac, osx, software, utilities, vista, windows, windows xp | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
“The hard working folks behind Camino have released Camino 1.1 beta to an eager world. The most important change since alpha 2 is an integrated restore pages feature as you see above. Although it was previously possible to get a plugin to do this called CaminoSession (as we mentioned earlier), it’s nice to see it […]
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
The new version of Evernote is out and if you are a windows user it would be well worth a look. Looks like some pretty handy additions to an already impressive program that helps you manage all those little pieces of information.
“New features of EverNote 1.5 include:
Synchronization of EverNote databases with USB flash drives and […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Further to the last post about this wonderful program - quicksilver. The forums at quicksilver are abuzz with a cheat sheet and a manual being developed. It is still a work in progress but it is a worthy start and you might find that nice tip that makes it all worthwhile.
As the unofficial apple weblog […]
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
Calendar Swamp points out this cool little script that will allow you to sync your ipod with google calendar.
“Johnny Gizmo has a script called getCals that lets iPods (those with calendars) grab Google Calendars.”
Get it here
Posted in hacks, ipod, mp3 players, software, utilities, web apps | 2 Comments »
Saturday, May 20th, 2006
Techcrunch reports that Microsoft might beat google to the punch and release their online drive aptly called Microsoft Live Drive
“Microsoft is building an online storage service, code named Live Drive, says Ray Ozzie in an interview with Fortune:
Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer
anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. […]
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
downloadsquad point out the news that a task list is likely to be coming soon to google calendar.
Garett Rogers over at Googling Google discovered a few weeks ago that there is some dormant code in Google Calendar that appears to have only one possible use: completable events, otherwise known as tasks. For me, this is […]
Posted in communication, freeware, gtd, hacks, pim, utilities, web apps | 2 Comments »
Friday, May 12th, 2006
The next release of google desktop has been released. I am downloading now, so can’t say much about it at this stage but am looking forward to playing around with the new features.
Come and join the fun here
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Chris Prillo has a rant about what is the best archiver program. I must admit that I too have long since stopped using winzip. There was a time when it was used extensively on my computer and it was one of the first programs installed. How times keep changing!
“I’m not usually passionate enough to stir […]
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