Just a quick note to those who use Google Desktop for WIndows: it eats up hard drive space like nothing I've seen! I ran out of disk space on my system partition yesterday while running a large video convertion task, and after some searching I found the culprit - Google Desktop creates an entirely different index for each user in your machine. I use my laptop in different customer's networks (and different AD domains), so I have about five user accounts in my machine. Each index was taking up about 2 GB. In my 30 GB system partition, you can ...
Saw this one over at FriendFeed Watch: the first desktop client for FriendFeed was released! I was looking forward to this, as FriendFeed is such a nice and well implemented idea that justs begs to become a permanent resident of my system tray, rather than having to keep a browser tab permanently open to check on it. The client is called bTittleTattle (yea, don't ask), and it was made by the guys at Sobees. It is based on the Windows Presentation Foundation so, unfortunately, Windows only forever :( Check out the video below to see what it looks like.
I basically ...
The news are out there already, but I might as well spread it: Firefox 3 beta 5 is out. Just updated mine, it looks the same so far, except for a few mildly redesigned icons. Let's see....
Apparently someone has been reading my posts, because in the last weeks I received invitations to test out three different tools in areas related to my previous posts. The kind folks at Comapping invited me to check out the new features they have launched - I will do it, as soon as I have time! I also got asked to review a new online project management tool called Wrike - again, I'll get to it... And, last but not least (and not actually last in chronological order), Igor from Concept Draw sent me a free ...
Someone has been reading my posts on Mind-Mapping tools! I have recently been contacted by the folks over at Comapping telling me about some new stuff they have released over there, and giving me access to a test account. I will check this out over the next few days and will post a review of the new features. Also, the people at Concept Draw have offered me a free license of their Mind Mapping product. Even though I had previously stated that my reviews would cover only software that can be used in some form for free, this is a ...
As you might know, Apple has released a beta version of its browser, Safari, for Windows. Since I'm a huge fan of beta stuff and have been seriously considering whether my next notebook should be a Mac, I decided to test it for one full day - the idea being that during an entire day I would use only Safari, instead of Firefox. I spend most of my time browsing, for fun and work, so this is a major test for me. Here are my conclusions.
It looks great
The user interface is sleek, nice and simple, and basically feels very nice ...
As it's Problogger Group Writing Project time, and therefore I tend to get more traffic than usual (well since this is a fairly new blog any traffic is more traffic than usual :P), I though of suggesting a little interactive post to interact with new readers: how about sharing your desktop? No, not really sharing your desktop, just a screenshot... Post a screenshot of your desktop as it is right now to your own blog or, if you don't have one, to a photo sharing service, and let us all know either through a pingback, or a comment on ...