tools
Going paperless: is it (finally) time?
For years now, I’ve held onto the dream of going paperless — a dream that was usually shattered with an afternoon of clumsy scanning on a substandard consumer scanner and a few paper cuts. Every couple of years, I check back in on the state of the art and think about giving it another [...]
Subscribe to my blog via email
I love FeedBurner. Every now and then, I check out features I’m not using and try a new one out. Tonight, I added the ability to subscribe to my blog via email using FeedBurner email. The form is permanently in my blog template now, but here’s what it looks like for all [...]
Unix cal command: a key part of my calendaring solution
I noticed both Tim Bray and John Roberts‘ recent ruminations on the perfect calendar solution, and while I don’t have the answer, in thinking about it I realized that I have a quirky calendar-related habit that has stuck with me for over a decade, throughout all my own various experiments with Palm Desktop, Outlook, iCal, [...]
Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us!
Yes, it’s true as of a few minutes ago — del.icio.us just joined us at Yahoo! See Yahoo! Search blog and the deli.icio.us blog for the scoop.
Welcome Joshua and team!
VNC vs. WebEx: VNC wins!
I’m running a little activity at work tomorrow where I need to allow several remote people to show demos (mostly web-based and likely on Firefox) on a laptop hooked into a projector in a conference room full of people watching the demos. This sounds like a job made for WebEx, right? I hadn’t [...]
ecto for Windows (alternate title: Windows install dependencies suck)
About a year and a half ago (in what seems like another life now), I wrote about my first (good) impressions using ecto for OS X. It was a different job, a different blog platform (Movable Type), and a different OS. Now that I’m doing Windows again at work (still OS X at [...]
First impressions of Measure Map from Adaptive Path
I got my invitation a few days ago to try out the alpha release of Measure Map, the blog stats service from the folks over at Adapative Path. After a few days of using it, I’m generally impressed. The quickest (but also crudest) way I can think of to describe the service is [...]
Term Extraction API and TagCloud.com
One of the most inspiring backend pieces of the Event Browser for me was the innovative use of the Content Analysis Term Extraction API, which Ed describes in his post about the Event Browser:
One of the problems we had were that there were no images in our event feed. We knew we wanted to get [...]
Flock and WebOS
Now that I have Flock, I decided to test it out a little. My first task, of course, was trying to post to my blog. That’s what you’re seeing here (please forgive some of the wonky formatting). I was hoping that the blog tool would allow for offline posting a la ecto, but that doesn’t [...]
Want Akismet? Then download Flock. Huh?
(Note on 11/10/05: getting the API key was mildly painful, but Akismet is doing an EXCELLENT job of catching spam. I have zero problems now — it was well worth it!)
I ran across a mention of Akismet, the WordPress spam blocker, on the BusinessWeek blog and since I’ve been seeing a bit more spam [...]