Posts in: Reviews
- What books did you love this year?
- And so amid all the lists (even our own), to round out the year, we offer a new installment of our annual “Year in Reading” series – an anti-list, as it were. Acknowledging that few readers, if any, read exclusively newly published books, we’ve asked our regular contributors and distinguished guests to name, from all [...] [3 Dec 2009]
- Opera Unite: A server in your browser
- Opera has just launched a shot across the bow of other browsers with its new Unite feature. It’s a part of Opera 10, which is still in beta, but it could revolutionize the web, by turning every computer into a server. So what can you do with Unite? Several things, including: Share files, including photo downloading and [...] [17 Jun 2009]
- Review: “The Principles of Project Management” by Meri Williams
- The Principles of Project ManagementBuy from Amazon.com With this book, PM and blogger Meri Williams takes readers through the process of project management. Chapter one gives an overview of the discipline and makes a case for its necessity. Chapters 2 – 5 cover a typical project life cycle: discovery, initiation, planning, change management, and closing a [...] [2 Jun 2008]
- Review: Nokia N800
- I received a Nokia N800 to test and review from the fine folks at WOM World, a Nokia-sponsored meta-blog. The basics The N800 runs a flavor of Linux known as OS 2008. Several software packages come loaded with the N800, including a full-featured web browser (with Flash!), e-mail client, media player, and instant messaging application. Perhaps [...] [2 Apr 2008]
- Buzzword.com: Flash-based online word processor
- It’s old news that web-based word processing applications are sprouting up all over the web. There’s Google Docs, Zoho Writer, ThinkFree and gOffice among others. View larger version One of the most recent entrants to this fairly crowded field, is Buzzword by Virtual Ubiquity, which was recently acquired by Adobe. I tested Buzzword using Firefox 2.0.0.10 and Camino [...] [29 Nov 2007]
- Overview: Miro 1.0
- I missed this because I was on vacation, but on November 13, the folks over at the Participatory Culture Foundation released the 1.0 version of Miro. Miro, formerly known as Democracy Player, likes to compare itself to the on-demand video service Joost. The two are quite different, however. Joost is very much on-demand television over the [...] [26 Nov 2007]
- Tips for using the web to run your business
- TwoThree posts on turning your office into a web-based one. The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need 8 Steps to running your business on (mostly) free apps The Social Enterprise – What Works, and What Doesn’t Somewhat related: Using Amazon S3 for hard drive backups Freebie resources for designers Review: The online mind map smackdown Open source favorites [6 Nov 2007]
- Aptana reaches 1.0, announces paid pro edition
- Aptana, one of my favorite open source text editors, has reached its 1.0 milestone, re-naming the product Aptana Studio (née Aptana IDE) and adding a supported, professional version for an introductory price of $99 (regular price $199). What do you get in the pro edition that’s not available in the community version? JSON support Support for secure [...] [30 Oct 2007]
- GlobalGrind.com: Niche audience start pages?
- UPDATE: GlobalGrind.com has received funding from Accel Partners, a venture capital group who has also funded Facebook and BrightCove. Russell Simmons is involved in the project, which is a startup by the folks who brought you 360hiphop.com. [Via Alarm:Clock] Also read: Global Grind is Pageflakes for Hip Hop on Mashable and Global Grind: Startpage For Hip Hop [...] [2 Aug 2007]
- Review: WorkSpace
- What would you expect from a basic text editor? Let’s create a list of features: Support for plain text Syntax highlighting for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, SQL, Java, and Perl. Limited auto-complete Ability to connect to multiple FTP servers at once Ability to upload, download, rename and delete [...] [15 May 2007]