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Tag Archives: web
Newsgator problems
I emailed Newsgator this morning when I noticed that their site was down. I just had this response:
"Dan,
NewsGator Online has been experiencing intermittent system problems (Case 57879), starting late last night. We are working hard to correct this issue and expect the problem to be solved within the hour."
So now we know. I wish them [...]
Google Calendar
I was using 30 Boxes and Skobee to keep track of gigs and events, but I can't see any reason not to shift everything across to the newly launched Google Calendar.
All of the functionality I need from Skobee (agenda view) and 30 Boxes (calendar sharing) is present here but with the Gmail UI that we [...]
Alertbear (and RSS)
I had a brief play with Alertbear this morning – a new RSS reader which claims to adopt the "river of news" approach to reading your news. I'm not keen; this might be useful if you only read one or two feeds but for anyone with a large number of regularly updated feeds, [...]
Tags
I've been reading about tags vs categories for a while now. Lorelle is a big fan of The Ultimate Tag Warrior – a Wordpress plugin which makes the creation and management of a tag based site (or folksonomy) less painful. I'd like to say easier, but transitioning from categories to tags when you've already got [...]
Skobee
I'm currently using 30 Boxes to organise my gigs and things, but Skobee sounded like it might make an nice alternative. The idea of setting up individual events sound like it should be more efficient – no need to page through lots of empty days to find the particular event I want.
The problem is, Skobee [...]
Wonderful things – two in an occasional series
1) I give you Shhh cards.
2) I give you "the granddaddy of all quantum wierdness".
This is a stunning little video that's certain to make your head hurt, but is highly recommended viewing. I've just watched it twice! I found it via digg, which I've heard an awful lot about but haven't really paid very [...]