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...

Google has launched this week a technology (I’ll call it technology, as I think “browser extension” doesn’t quite fit here) that allows you to use web applications offline. This is pretty cool stuff – imagine writing all your emails on the way to work, on a bus or train or whatever, using your webmail client, and sending them off...

I’m returning to the topic of mind-mapping tools motivated by some comments in my previous post on the subject. Two web-based tools were recommended to me, and since they have atually changed my choice of solution, I thought I’d share this with everyone. The new tools are Mindomo and Commaping. Comapping Comapping was recommended at Web Worker...

Spock is, according to their own blog, a search application for people. When you visit their URL, you are greeted by a simple interface which looks like your standard search engine, but shows a few search suggestions under three categories: In the news, People and Searches. From this standpoint, Spock behaves pretty much like a regular search engine. However,...

Following up on my recent post reviewing a number of freely available, cross-platform GTD applications, I now present short reviews for a few mind-mapping tools. Again, the criteria were: The tools have to be free (at least as in beer), and The tools have to be cross-platform, either web-based or run in Windows and Linux. I’d love to be able to test...

I have been trying to get David Allen’s famous productivity method, GTD (Getting Things Done), to work for me, and in this effort I have tried numerous tools to help me along. Some of them rely on computers to run, others do not. However, since I spend most of my day in front of a computer, I found that a computer tool suits me best, since then I...