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Is Someone Tight Fisted With Your Data?

Whether you are the one wanting better access or the one acting as a gatekeeper, who gets to see what data is a major concern for any company. I saw an article back in the fall about who not to put in charge of your data access, so I'm ...

Simple Website Creation by Weebly

Are you ever in a situation where you need just a simple, static website? I don't find myself there very much anymore, but Weebly is a great option that is definitely worth checking out. I've put up a little demo site of my own. The creation environment is all ...

Round that Curvy Corner

Are you looking for a way to build a lightweight website with minimal graphics...and do it with rounded corners? You can use the Mozilla specific CSS (-moz-border-radius), but the rounded corners will only appear for Mozilla based browsers. I guess that works if your site only works on ...

Doesn’t Get Much Kuler

Whenever I'm working on a web design I think my biggest block tends to be figuring out what colors to use. That's especially true if I'm starting from scratch, with no logo or any direction from the client. I think my "problem" is much less of a problem ...

Free Windows Software

I'm always on the lookout for quality, free software. Over at nedwolf.com they have four lists of Windows freeware: general freeware, portable freeware, web developer tools, and online apps. These lists are very extensive, and nicely organized so you can easily find the software you need. They have ...

News Blog at Work (and RSS)

This is the third of a three-part series on Web 2.0 at Work. I saved this one for last because I was just in a meeting on Friday of last week to discuss this exact topic. The issue of internal communication has been a recognized problem where I work, not ...

Wiki at Work

This is the second of a three-part series on Web 2.0 at Work. Do you use a wiki at work? If not, why? Here's what you are missing. Before we setup our office wiki anything that was an office policy guide, procedure manual, or what-to-do-in-case-of document was done in Word ...

Team Blogging at Work

This is the first of a three-part series on Web 2.0 at Work. As Tim figured out, I work in a university admissions office with Bren. Being in the sales business there are two general types of staff: those that sell (recruit) and travel, and those that support (file coordinator, ...

January 23rd 2008
Tags: Tools, Web 3 Comments

MindMeister Revisited

It's been a while since I talked here about MindMeister (11 months), and about six months since I've seriously used it. In that time they have made some pretty sweet changes. The big announcement in November was their release of MindMeister Offline. Built on Google Gears, MindMeister Offline allows ...
January 16th 2008
Tags: Links No Comments

Link Harvest: January 1 - January 16

Here are my links: Can You Run It?  Can you computer run that video game you've been eyeing?  Windows required. OpenLDAP + Samba Domain Controller On Ubuntu 7.10 - A great howto guide. ScreenSteps - Screenshot-based documentation, made easier. GCal In Your Firefox Sidebar
January 13th 2008
Tags: Firefox, Tools, Web One Comment

Tiddle Wherever You Are

A short while ago, I was talking with a co-worker about personal productivity (i.e. to-do) systems.  There are so many systems out there, and each with their own spin on GTD.  He showed me one that is a spin on the TiddlyWiki system:  Tiddlyspot.Tiddlyspot is a hosted version of TiddlyWiki, with a twist. ...
January 2nd 2008
Tags: Apple, Linux, Tools, Windows One Comment

Multi-protocol IM Clients Done Right

There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that ...
December 21st 2007
Tags: Firefox, Safari, Tips 'n Tricks No Comments

FF to Safari, pt. 2 - Import Bookmarks

One thing that I was dreading about this Safari-for-a-week thing was having to manually copy over my bookmarks from Firefox.  There's not much worse than wasting a bunch of time doing copy, paste, repeat.  A little Google search, and we have a winner!If you've got Safari 2.0 (or higher) you've got import and ...

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