Archive for the 'web apps' Category

How to set up Wordpress

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Darren over at Problogger points out a video showing a step by step instructions on how to set up a wordpress blog. Neat!
“1. Installing a free FTP program and connecting to your website
2. Creating a database for Wordpress.
3. Installing Wordpress.
4. Configuring Wordpress settings.
5. Setting up permalinks.
6. Writing and editing a post.
7. Uploading images.
8. Creating a […]

cocomment

Friday, July 21st, 2006

CoComment has been updated and is well worth checking out if you comment on a whole range of blogs and can never remember where you left a comment and then miss the following conversations.

CoComent is a popular browser tool for tracking conversations in the comments sections of blogs. It catches the comments you’ve made […]

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. […]

Google Calendar Data API

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Using the Google Calendar Data API
Google Calendar
allows client applications to view and update calendar events in the
form of Google data API (”GData”) feeds. Your client application can
use the Google Calendar data API to create new events, edit or delete
existing events, and query for events that match particular criteria.
There
are many possible uses for the Calendar […]

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 […]

web based mind mapping

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Might be worth it to check out Mayomi, a web-based mind-mapping app.  Still checking it out and might post a more detailed review here in due course.

web 2 awards

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

This a comprehensive list of web 2 web sites that will allow you to perform all most all of your software application tasks online. Most people know gmail and bloglines but there is a lot more excellent web apps out there.
Have a look at this list and see if any strike your fancy.
In my daily […]

del.icio.us implements private bookmarks

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

The del.icio.us blog points out that del.icio.us the link sharing web site now allows you to save links that are private. Could be handy! Particularly as the geekyinfo daily links are generated automatically from del.icio.us – so, now if I want to save a link that is not of a geek nature then I can […]

onfolio the microsoft way

Friday, March 17th, 2006

If you want to install the new ofolio - done the Microsoft way since Microsoft aquired the company and is not releasing the software for free then you should read this post.
Kevin Tofel has been doing just that and he has worked out that you should uninstall your previous version of onfolio before you install […]