Archive for the 'utilities' Category

newswire

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 […]

opera

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 […]

Camino 1.1b - Now With Session Saving Built In

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 […]

EverNote 1.5 Beta is Now Available!

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 […]

quicksilver cheat sheet

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 […]

getcals

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

Microsoft live drive

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. […]

Task List coming in Google Calendar?

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 […]

Google Desktop Version 4

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

archivers such as winrar

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 […]