Posts in: Software
- Google Spreadsheets
- Red Herring magazine has an article called 17 MS Office Killers that covers web office applications. Fresh from the Google Labs, we’ve got Google Spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets has been in testing through an invitation-only beta since June. But it appears that they’re starting to roll it out for the rest of us. You can [...] [13 Aug 2006]
- A round up of apps that use your Apple Remote
- UPDATE: Bruno from Twisted Melon (makers of Mira) tells me that NeoOffice is now supported. And a quick web site check reveals that Sofa Control does as well. The hot new thing now that new Macs come with a remote are programs that let you control any application from your Mac — not just iTunes and [...] [9 Aug 2006]
- Performancing extension for Firefox
- UPDATE: Performancing for Firefox has been acquired by PayPerPost.com and is now known as Scribefire While reading and writing about Flock, I kept seeing mentions of a extension for Firefox that would handle blog publishing better than Flock does: the Performancing extension. I installed it, and WHOA. This extension kicks some serious blogging-through-the-browser a**. Below is a [...] [5 Jul 2006]
- Flock browser: Is it worth the switch?
- Updated to add: Once you hit the publish button, Flock takes an awful long time to exit the “Publishing your post” dialog. The post publishes very quickly. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the dialog box. Flock recently released a beta version of its browser. I downloaded their developer preview a while back, but [...] [28 Jun 2006]
- Open source favorites
- I should mention that — except where noted — all of these packages are either web-based, or cross-platform. I use quite a few open source applications in my day-to-day tinkering and freelance gigging. What open-source apps do you use regularly (or not-so-regularly)? Firefox My vote for Greatest Browser Ever. WordPress Kick-ass blog publishing software. Also available in a multi-user version. OpenOffice.org A [...] [30 May 2006]
- What’s your favorite text editor or IDE?
- When I first started doing freelance coding, I used a ‘borrowed’ version of HomeSite. Eventually my conscience got the better of me (plus HomeSite’s publisher was acquired by Macromedia and HomeSite was dumped), and I went searching for a free editor to replace HomeSite (since I was broke and all). First I tried 1st Page, which [...] [17 May 2006]
