Two Time-Saving Firefox Extensions Get Nods from Mozilla (2)
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The other day, we covered the winners in this year’s Extend Firefox contest, which is Mozilla’s annual effort to recognize the best extensions for the Firefox browser. In addition to the new ideas that won, though, Mozilla has also recognized a couple of strong updates to well-known Firefox extensions. Two of them can be very handy for web workers. Read It Later is a quick way to save web pages of interest to read later, ...
Is Nortel’s Next-Gen Collaboration App Too Ambitious? (9)
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While it’s still in incubation stage, web workers will want to keep Nortel’s web.alive project on their radars. Codenamed “Project Chainsaw,” web.alive is virtual world software, but it’s aimed at online business collaboration and e-commerce applications. Web.alive is being built by a team within Nortel and appears to be focused on next-generation extensions of many of the collaboration tools we’re already used to in tools such as online meeting applications. While it doesn’t appear to ...
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Eater said:
Can I still use my talking-penis avatar if it's an 'e-commerce virtual environment'?
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MiramarMike said:
Wow ... if you're having issues getting a work wiki this isn't gonna go anywhere within 10 years :-)
A Tuneup for Your Windows PC–Free (9)
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If you work in Windows, you’re probably well aware of how it litters files around a hard disk, is often flaky in uninstalling applications, and just generally slows a PC down over time. I’m always experimenting with utilities that counteract this, and I’ve written before about one of my favorite free applicaitions: Glary Utilities. Now, I’ve found another good, free collection of utilities called Advanced WIndows Care Personal. Like Glary Utilities, Advanced Windows Care Personal ...
WebWorkerDaily » Archive Mozilla Tips its Hat to This Year’s Top Firefox Extensions « (10)
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Every year, Mozilla runs a contest called Extend Firefox, which is designed to name the best Firefox extensions created in the previous 12 months. This year’s list of winners is out, and one of the winners was previously written up here a while back: Pencil. In his writeup, Mike noted that Pencil works by marrying Firefox’s Gecko drawing engine with the ability to display, save and load an external canvas with a palette of shapes. ...
Microsoft is Staying its Course on the Search Front (2)
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Microsoft is continuing to maneuver for a greater share of the search market, but does it really stand a chance of winning much share from Google? Officials from Microsoft were in Silicon Valley this week, discussing plans for how to outdo Google, but I doubt if any of the current moves are going to woo web workers away from the search leader. Microsoft is a distant third, behind Google and Yahoo, in the search market, ...
Will Linux Find its Way Onto Your Computer? (2)
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While the majority of readers here use Mac and Windows systems, I’m consistently surprised at how many readers also use one form of Linux or another. Judging from anecdotal evidence I’ve seen in the reader comments, the folks who do use Linux use it as an ancillary tool, secondary to the operating systems they spend most of their time in. Recently, this positioning of Linux as an ancillary tool has picked up steam. Even if ...
GooSync Adds Support for Multiple Devices (2)
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GooSync, the handy mobile synchronization service that we’ve covered in the past, today announced an upgrade that allows you to add multiple devices to your Premium account. In a nutshell, GooSync facilitates an over the air synchronization of your Google calendars and contacts with up to 4 mobile devices. It is possible for each device to have separate settings to control specifically which calendars or contact categories are synchronized, but they all must connect to ...
BlastGroups Offers Simple Yet Poweful Group Sharing Platform (3)
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The web brings with it great opportunities to connect with others centered around just about any common interest, and there are a multitude of tools and services available to help facilitate this. A new player in this area is BlastGroups, which is entering public beta today. BlastGroups makes it really easy to create your own community site where you can share just about anything with your group. Features include message boards, email blasts, events, pictures, ...
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USB 3.0: Likely to Bring Many Conveniences (6)
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The next generation of Universal Serial Bus (USB) is upon us. The final specification for USB 3.0 is due in the fourth quarter of this year, and Intel has delivered a key part of the draft spec. I’m betting that version 3.0 will make life easier for web workers in many ways. That’s largely true because of the many conveniences that I remember USB 2.0 introducing. USB 3.0 has been widely interpreted as a way ...
A Second Look at Evernote, Joint Contact, Backboard, Retaggr and Zemanta (9)
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I’ve been blogging here about Web apps and ideas for work for a while now so I thought I’d revisit some of the apps I’ve posted about in the past months. Where are they now? What are some of their latest developments? Ever Improving Evernote I blogged about Evernote back in April while they were still in private beta. Mike Gunderloy has also covered them several times. Judi Sohn has also mentioned them a few ...
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straylight said:
LOVE Evernote. Retaggr sounds promising...setting up a card now.
Use iPhone Optimized Web Sites On Your Desktop For Greater Productivity (7)
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We’ve talked about Site Specific Browsers like Bubbles in the past and while I have found them to be useful in some instances, it’s only with the proliferation of web applications with iPhone optimized interfaces that I have really started using them. I have found that setting up multiple SSB windows ,each containing the iPhone view of a web application, allows me to create a dashboard of sorts on my spare monitor. At a glance, ...
LinkedIn: Old-School Social Network Isn’t Short of Fans (7)
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Many of us web workers participate in more than one social network, and it’s well-known that beyond the simple social connections you can make, social networks can also be career safety nets. This was the subject of a New York Times piece from yesterday. In it, a Jupiter Research analyst asserts that LinkedIn, “though it lacks the glamour of more popular sites like MySpace and Facebook, is the place to be.” The article offers up ...
McAfee Site Advisor Ferrets Out the Funk (5)
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This week I’ve been using an interesting, free Firefox extension called McAfee Site Advisor, which you can download here. While Firefox 3 has new features built into it designed to identify potentially malicious web sites, I’m betting that McAfee has a larger knowledge base about these site than Mozilla does. McAfee Site Advisor shows up as a green icon at the bottom right of Firefox, as seen above, and warns when you arrive at a ...
Can Project Management Tool Clarizen Manage Our Projects? (1)
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I’ve been taking a lot of demos for project management solutions and while some are well-suited for the Web worker who is looking to get a handle on multiple projects, clients and virtual team members (like Basecamp), others are geared more toward the enterprise and aren’t even priced with a smaller team in mind (like GroupSwim). Another SaaS project management system is Clarizen, and their raison d’etre is to “embrace the team” in the virtual ...
Tiny Twitter Gets Even Better (4)
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I’ve always found Tiny Twitter to be an outstanding mobile Twitter client, and with its latest release it has gained some new features that make it even better. I’ve raved about Tiny Twitter in the past and now it is even more useful. New features include auto uploading of photos to Twitpic along with your tweet, and a hook into a GPS if available to provide location services. I’m particularly pleased with the Twitpic integration ...
Jungle Disk Goes Workgroup (9)
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Jungle Disk, the Amazon S3-backed online storage software whose 2.0 release we recently covered, is out with a new version. This time it’s the release of the Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition, which sets its sights on small and medium groups who need to manage shared storage resources. Like Jungle Disk’s other products, the basic idea here is to install a pipeline to Amazon S3 storage that hides all the details of the local/remote divide. To ...
Keep an Eye on Your Software Updates (1)
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Users of the Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 suites for the Mac will want to get a hold of newly issued updates for each suite. They’re available for download now and Microsoft confirms that they enhance not just security but stability and peformance. It’s also increasingly a good idea to track where you can find out more about the updates you receive, as they arrive. Remember when Apple landed in hot water a few months ...
GroupSwim Facilitates Smarter Collaboration (1)
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Collaboration is always a challenge for any team, but when that team is virtual, cloud collaboration presents its own set of organizational and tracking problems. GroupSwim is looking to step into the slot between e-mail correspondence and full-featured robust project management systems ala Basecamp. According to the company, GroupSwim is not for the management of a project but for the collaborative exchanges during the creation of deliverables. While one of the company’s tag lines is ...
