Posts in: Software and web tools
- 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]
- Aptana IDE: Is it the text editor you’ve been looking for?
- UPDATE 2: Aptana, beta build 9 includes support for PHP. UPDATE: Aptana has released a beta version that has Ruby on Rails support I first heard of Aptana in the comment thread of a Lifehacker post (about free CSS editors). I’ve been using it on and off for the last few months, both at home and [...] [17 Jan 2007]
