Your Google Wave Guide
Since Google Wave is expected to have a limited release on September 30th, it is time to get an understanding of what this tool is, how it works, why it is revolutionary and how we might use it. What it is? Announced by Google on May 27th, 2009 as a “personal communication and collaboration tool”, Google Wave is the next big “death of email” hype storm. As an open source application, it is available for others to develop it out via it’s API – much like...
Read MoreThe Problem With Social Bookmarking Sites
They may be good at being social, but they need to work on their bookmarking features. Ok, here is the setup of my premise: I’m primarily a Firefox web surfer and for the last year or so I have been a big fan of the the Fast Dial add-on. If you don’t know what it is, basically it adds a bookmark page to your Firefox browser. Every time you bookmark a page to Fast Dial, it grabs a screen capture of the page and places it on the Fast Dial grid. The grid can contain as many or...
Read MorePlease Scam Me – Not
I know this is stating the obvious, but it is worth repeating. Don’t open file attachements from people you don’t know. No matter how creditable it appears, it’s simply not. I have been seeing this one (see image) or some variation of it quite often lately. It is always formatted the same and includes a PDF file attachment. This version talks about a great new weight loss thing-a-ma-jig. Others have said the attachment was an invoice for an order recently placed. ...
Read MoreScreenr – Share Screencasts Via Twitter
Screenr is a new online application is available that makes it easy to share screencast videos via Twitter. “What’s a screencast?”, you ask. It is when a user can create a video of what is happening on their computer screen while providing a voice over dialog via a plugged in microphone. They are typically used to create training videos, but they can serve other purposes too. The service is quite ingenious in it’s ease of use. Just go to the site and click the...
Read MoreCloud Computing on the Horizon
Cloud computing is on the horizon. And despite the jargony term, it’s more familiar than you think. “Cloud computing”, you ask? Well, you could consider this blog article cloud computing. Although you see the article on your screen and you are reading these words, this article doesn’t exist on your computer – unless you purposely copied it to your computer or are reading it from your computer cache. No, it exists on a server… somewhere… heck, I...
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