I guess everybody but me has figured this out, but blogs and social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) provide all the web presence just about any normal person needs. I considered putting wikis in the list, but no — too geeky. It’s the blog and the personal profile, baby. They just work for people. No [...]
Pando makes it easy to send a large file, such as a video, over the Internet. It uses BitTorrent technology. I tried an earlier version of Pando, which was tied to email, but didn’t find it natural to use. The new version, which sports additional interfaces, is quite easy to use.
Both the [...]
If you are a dedicated user of web services (Google Docs and Spreadsheets, GMail, TadaList, Wikispaces, Flickr, etc.) like I am, or a regular at various forums or online communities (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) like just about everybody else is, then you have lots of usernames and passwords to keep track of. Not I, some [...]
From an article in the Africa section of the New York Times (login required)
The government of Libya reached an agreement on Tuesday with One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008.
There are lots [...]
Google has integrated writely.com with Google Spreadsheets. Now you visit one place (either http://writely.com or http://docs.google.com) to access your online documents and your online spreadsheets. Here’s more detail from TechCrunch.
The other news, more of a rumor, is that Google is working on offline support for Google Docs and Spreadsheets. [...]
From a Paul Thurrott SuperSite post:
It sounded like science fiction the first time I heard about it: Windows Vista includes a feature called ReadyBoost that lets you use a USB 2.0-based flash memory device–typically a USB memory key–to speed up the performance of virtually any Vista PC.
This is pretty amazing. Take a flash drive, [...]
Microsoft has released Live Writer as part of their Windows Live suite. It’s a program that allows bloggers to compose entries, then publish them to their blogs. It’s much like Qumana. I wrote about Qumana here and here.
I’m composing this entry in Live Writer. Let’s see how [...]
I don’t like paying for anti-virus software. Heck, I don’t really like paying for software, even though I once made a living off a piece of software.
I’ve been using a free anti-virus program called Anti-Vir on our ancient family PC for years. It seems to do the job, but I hesitate [...]
There are a few programs out there that index the contents of your PC hard drive for quick search. [Mac users who are running Tiger have Spotlight; PC users will eventually have something similar, when Vista makes its way onto their PCs.] I used Google Desktop for a while. It [...]
Just loaded Qumana, the blog authoring tool, on my tablet PC and I’m happy to see that it works the same way as it does on my iBook.. Gotta love those who code for both platforms.
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