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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Web 2.0 at Work

I was reading my copy of Information Week yesterday, and the main focus of this issue is answering the question of what does web 2.0 look like in the enterprise. John Soat's article, What Web 2.0 Will Mean For Workforce 2.0, is written with his tongue firmly planted in ...

Launchy in 3…2…1…

I'm pretty sure people can already guess that I'm a fan of ways to avoid using the mouse. A long while ago I was on the lookout for a Windows-based keystroke application launcher, in the same vein as QuickSilver for MacOSX. I had started out with Colibri, but ...

MindMeister

Grigor at Behind the Glasses beat me to the punch, but I've got 20 invites up for the taking to the private beta of MindMeister. He's got the added idea of starting right out on the collaboration aspect of MindMeister. With the limited time I've spent on MindMeister so far ...

Yugma For Your Desktop

I don't remember how I first found out about Yugma, but this is a great piece of software for online meetings. Similar to Basecamp, you can have a limited FREE account, or varying levels of pay-for accounts. All accounts come with desktop sharing, audio teleconferencing, annotations & whiteboarding, ...

Do the Taskbar Shuffle

One thing I've found annoying about the way Windows handles the display of open applications is the inflexibility in the Taskbar. With XP they gave the ability to group Taskbar items from the same application together, but still no way for me to organize the lineup how I really ...

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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