I was first introduced to virtual desktops about 6 years ago when I first started poking at Linux. At the time it was a hobby type thing so I was basically running one or two applications at a time, and I didn’t see any real practical use for it.
In the last 9 months I’ve been [...]
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 you to take your mindmaps [...]
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
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. Not only can you work [...]
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 I think are flat out [...]
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 export options in the File [...]
The school that I work at has a program where every traditional undergraduate student is “given” a laptop (the cost of the computer is baked into their tuition). Following (or leading) industry trends, we have had a growing number of new students choosing Macs rather than Windows-based computers. So much so, for the [...]
You know those commercials for Nationwide Insurance where the couple walks out of a hospital, placing their newborn in the car seat, only to see a grown man in the newborn’s place when they climb in? The “Life Comes at You Fast” slogan? Yeah, that’s what’s happened to us.
Six months ago we brought [...]
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 for your website or blog [...]
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 just received six more invites, [...]