Archive for the 'web apps' Category

skin gmail, google reader and del.icio.us

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Web worker daily has some nice tips on skinning popular websites. I use the gmail and google reader one and could not be happier.
“Sites like Gmail, Google Reader and del.icio.us
are essential, functional and extensible. We live in them. But
aesthetically, they don’t win raves out of the box. Thank goodness a
web application’s look & feel is […]

a browser for my google

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

My google life is continuing:
What with my mail now in gmail, rss feeds in google reader, my calendar in google calendar, and some documents that I want to share in google docs. I even have google notebook up and running. Things are going well.
However, I am having some trouble with my browsers.
Up to this little […]

black belt scheduling with google calendar

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

A great post over at lifehacker about google calendar.
I particularly am interested in this hint on using google calendar for resource scheduling.
“GCal can even help you schedule the use of inanimate objects, like the office projector or meeting space. Using GCal’s Auto-accept invitations feature, any invite to the Conference Room A calendar that doesn’t […]

google bug

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I have got a case of the google bug quite bad!
I am experimenting with moving most of my computing life over the google online apps.
Why? Well, a number of reasons. One, I am on annual leave and I enjoy this type of stuff - playing with new applications and the like and two, the advantage […]

gcalsync

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I am quite taken by google calendar and so I am looking for a way to sync my treo 750 with my google calendar.For good measure, it would be nice to also have ical synced as well, although this is not critical.
This product looks interesting…

Carry your Google Calendar in your pocket! […]

Find Free Software With deligio

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

“Deligio is a search engine that specifically searches freeware and shareware software. The site is pretty simple, just search for whatever you’d like the software to do, and Deligio returns a list of freeware and shareware applications that will do what you requested. If you find something you absolutely love, deligio also supports tagging and […]

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 […]

The GMail Nerve Center

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Steve Rubel from Micro Persuasion has put together a handy multi-tutorial for using Gmail as the center for a variety of applications. These include:

How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar)

How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter)

How to automatically store your bookmarks in […]

furl

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

A new version of furl is available.
I have been using del.icio.us but I must admit that furl looks cool. My del.icio.us links hook into quicksilver which is a huge advantage so I must check if furl does the same before I move over.
“We have revamped the design and made it easier to create and find […]

Design an Online Workflow - lifehack.org

Monday, November 27th, 2006

This is a great article if you are looking to set yourself up online with your apps. Why use those expensive programs on your computer when you can use powerful free programs on the net that are available all the time?
“There are countless wonderful, free, online tools out there that help you with productivity, and […]