Does Free Lead to Buy?

A fairly common practice for software providers is to provide older versions of their software for free as a taster to encourage you to go on and purchase the latest versions. This applies equally to online apps as it does to desktop - the delivery mechanism is different but the principal is the same.  But […]

8th November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 8th November 2008:

Remember the Milk Gadget Puts Tasks in Gmail’s Sidebar [Gmail]
Visualizing data in the cloud
MSI Wind 9-cell spotted in the wild
Gmail’s New Gadget Support Lets You Remember The Milk
Remember The Milk for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available [Featured IPhone Download]
Early Look at Firefox’s Private Browsing […]

1st November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 1st November 2008:

Five Best URL Shrinkers [Hive Five]
Introducing Google Earth for iPhone
How Long Does Your Computer Take to Boot Up? [Reader Poll]
The town in the cloud…
New Default Groups for Google Contacts
Microsoft to battle in the clouds
Google Adds Gadgets To Gmail (Docs And Calendar)
Google Labs Gets to […]

Box vs. Dropbox

A while back I wrote about Microsoft’s Skydrive service which provides some storage in the cloud that allows you to access your files from anywhere. There are plenty of others (Lifehacker has a good overview of some of the main players) but I was taken by both Box and Dropbox as they provide access from […]

Google Mail as Communications Hub

When I am away from the office or home I still want to be able to communicate from anywhere and these days that means from a browser. A while ago I moved both my home and work emails over to Google Mail which has allowed me to get my email from anywhere but, until […]

12th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week - 12th October 2008:

The Steps to Read Gmail Mouselessly
Google Spreadsheets Redesign
Picasa 3 Beta’s New Features
Google’s Super Satellite Captures First Image
Windows XP downgrade deadline extended to July 31, 2009
Gmail Labs Adds Advanced IMAP Controls
Startup Delayer Beats Boot Time Frustration
Is Microsoft finally close to snatching up RIM?

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4th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 4th October 2008:

Songreference Turns Your MP3 Playlist Into A Video Playlist
Technology - is the party over?
Facebook for iPhone clicks over to version 2.0
Cloud + Client
Which way to the mobile web?
Fast forward for mobile broadband
Google Launches Its Own Memetracker
“Windows Cloud” Operating System to Be Released Within a […]

Network Hard Drives

A while ago I bought this hard drive enclosure from Maplin. What I wanted was some storage that I could access across the network rather than locally via a USB cable and this seemed to fit the bill at £35. I slotted in a spare 80gb hard drive and plugged it into the router. […]

What Time is it?

AppSwing have been using an online project management system FogBugz for a few months now and it’s very good. However, what makes it stand head-and-shoulders above the competition is not the functionality (which is superb and well executed) but the attitude towards support. I have emailed their help desk a few times and have […]

Wordle

Here’s a neat way of representing information in a very graphical way: Wordle. Using this service you can either choose to enter some text, perhaps a presentation or speech or direct it at the RSS feed of a website. That’s what the picture below shows - the feed for this site. Weight is given to […]