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...

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,...

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…. Popularity: 19% [?]

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...

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...

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...