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 ...

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. ...

Bren, formerly of Slacker Manager fame, showed me this great little tip today. Playtagger is a feature brought to us by del.icio.us. Play Tagger is a neat little tool that allows you to easily play mp3 files directly on del.icio.us (see the popular mp3 bookmarks), and you can have it ...

If you haven't heard of Pownce, think Twitter but with the ability to do more than just messages. It's currently in closed beta, and I've got six invites for the first six comments. Be sure to check out the local client app, too, written in Adobe AIR. UPDATE: I ...

My dad runs a Joomla! based website that I have been hosting. Just recently we decided to migrate it to a different web host, so I had to figure out how to move it. I was initially puzzled by how to accomplish this move with the least amount of pain. ...

Most people in the tech industry are familiar with the accronym LAMP (if not, follow that link). MAMP is a variation on LAMP, but for Mac. I need to preface this post with the advice that the product I'm about to show is not for "production" type environments. The ...

I just recently added the Digg It buttons on here. I had to do some debugging to try to get it to work properly, so I figured I'd pass along my work for anyone else to use. There are two things that I did to make it work ...

I writing this post not from my home in Oregon, but from Boise, Idaho. Some colleagues and I are in Boise visiting our campus here for work. When we setup this trip last week I got to thinking about airport wifi, and how I was very glad that ...

A while back I was given a book to read on blogging, aptly title "Blog." In the section I was reading last night I was struck by some of the things Hugh Hewitt was saying, and how I completely overlooked "leadership blogs" in my Web 2.0 at Work series. Every ...

I've been following Joe Tan's plugin development for Wordpress for quite a while. I initially checked his stuff out for his Flickr Photo Album plugin, but found my favorite plugin of all-time (behind SpamKarma2 of course): Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports. Obviously this plugin only benefits you if you ...