Jan 19, 2012

Most productivity software falls either in the to-do list or timer category, and often they are tied to a particular methodology such as Getting Things Done (GTD) or the Pomodoro Technique. This is of course very useful when either you are knowledgeable about the methodology and, most importantly, when the methodology fits precisely into your workflow. Another...

Jan 13, 2012

So your personal blog is picking up momentum and you’re ready to spend a few dollars sprucing it up, or perhaps you’re setting up a website for your new home business and you need it to look awesome, or maybe you’re a WordPress freelancer looking for economic solutions for your clients. Whatever the need, premium WordPress themes are an...

Seeing as this is the big news today, here are my thoughts on Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, in a nutshell: No one really cares about Microsoft anymore. Whatever they seem to do online is irrelevant, and the foundation for their dominance (Windows) is becoming less and less relevant as everything moves online. Microsoft’s attempts at becoming...

I am not, perhaps unfortunately, given to doing much social analysis. However, and I really don’t know why, I caught myself considering some of these issues while going through Engadget’s review of Google’s Cr-48 netbook, the first netbook sporting Google’s Chrome OS. By now it’s old news that Google’s OS is entirely based on...

It looks like our move into the browser is by now inescapable, as more and more applications are moving to the web.  For me, a major milestone was reached about a month ago, when I moved my work e-mail account to Google Apps, where it now lives together with the rest of my e-mail accounts.  Of all my desktop apps that see heavy daily use, the next in the list...

Sliderocket, the online presentation tool, has today come out of private beta and is now public, open to all.  If you did not get in to the private round, you’ve got to check this out now.  Sliderocket is one of the most fantastic web apps out there.  It has features that help you create stunning presentations very easily, and is organized in a...

Just heard through Twitter that Twhirl, my (and most everyone’s) favorite Twitter client, has added support for identi.ca in a still unreleased beta version.  identi.ca, for those who haven’t heard about it, is a Twitter clone that is based on the Laconica open source microblogging platform, which allows anyone with access to a web server to host...

Sorry about that, I’ve just switched jobs, and as usual it takes a while to fall into the new schedule – so the blog suffers.  Should get back to a steady rythm sometime soon. Popularity: 2% [?]