If you read my last Freeloader Friday, you noticed that I have noticed a few budding task management applications. There are some cool new ones that show Web 2.0 promise.
But, after all my research I still came back hungry. And, after going over my expectations, I found out that maybe what I want isn’t a [...]
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Business 2.0 has an interesting thought on Google’s greater ambitions: building a “Google OS”. I’d have to agree (in fact I already have) but there’s a missing component, and a lesson to be learned from the last company out to turn Microsoft irrelevant.
Netscape, and its new resurrection knows that a key point in making the [...]
You know I have been a fan of Macromedia for a long time. And I still am. But something is perplexing me. We all saw Flash take a hit as a result of the multimedia overdose that hit the web years back. Fortunately the folks at Macromedia are on top of it, and have cleverly [...]
Today’s news was the unveiling of Nokia’s web appliance. I haven’t been a Nokia customer since my 5190, so I was amazed at how appealing I found their new 770.
The philosophy behind the web appliance/thin client isn’t new, but the idea of a wifi browser-to-go is hot. Smaller and cheaper than a laptop, and more [...]
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Extensions can be good, and extensions can be bad. The good: Jybe. This beta allows you to co-browse. Once you have created a “session”, others can join and chat. Both (or all) users can control where the browser goes.
Jybe works with Firefox and IE (Windows) so you really can teach your grandma to use [...]
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Firefox’s calendar extension has been my calendar manager of choice for six months now, but its Thunderbird extension and standalone Sunbird application haven’t worked for me, until now.
I use multiple computers at multiple locations, so the number one application of the extension for me has been FTP syncing. With the release of Sunbird 0.2 RC2 [...]
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2004 was a pretty good year on the tech front. Looking into the new year, there are a couple trends that are likely to have an impact on 2005. I don’t pretend to know anything about the future, but here are a few things to watch for in 2005:
Podcasting will gain some popularity, and we [...]
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Today is post 101 for me on this blog. Pretty neat.
I don’t know if you have noticed the sudden proliferation of “Firefox Power Tips for Mega Power Users” articles, mostly written by bloggers who downloaded Ff five minutes previous to writing about obvious features (TIP: Add a Live Bookmark by clicking on the orange icon). [...]
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Netscape released a preview of its new Firefox-based browser. As expected, it is Firefox’s speed with an ugly theme and Netscape network stuff caked on.
One interesting addition is the ability to switch rendering engines between Mozilla’s Gecko and Microsoft’s Trident (to see what the page looks like in IE). The Netscape preview also supports site-specific [...]
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I know this is old news by now, but it’s definitely good news.
POP access to your Gmail. I just hope Google doesn’t get in too deep trying to be everything to everybody.
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