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Productivity Software Technology

Quicksilver Abracadabra Gestures

Wow. Quicksilver never ceases to amaze! You can now create mouse gestures to do anything Quicksilver can do using a plugin called Abracadabra. It’s a basic plugin, but it’s incredibly helpful. You needn’t be working for Coca Cola, o2, Citibank or any other big corporation to benefit from this extension, it works perfectly well on […]

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Business Money Software Technology

An Update on Enrichr, Software, Investing etc.

A few things have happened lately. One is that the Daily Press is running an article on bloggers and apparently I’m going to be featured. I had a phone interview and the photographer came over and took pictures of me standing by my computer :). We decided to change the name of the Community of […]

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Software Technology Web Services

How to Find a Great Domain Name Revisited

A couple months ago I wrote about how to find a great domain name. Since then, I’ve found several other tricks, related articles and sites… here they are: 1. Instant Domain Search – This is the site I’ve been using most. Start typing a domain name and as you type it shows you if it’s […]

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Software Technology

Alternatives to Ruby on Rails

I’ve been learning Ruby on Rails for the past few months. Along the way, I’ve found several similar frameworks in other languages: Django in Python Fanery in Python Subway also in Pyton TurboGears another Python framework Catalyst in Perl TrimJunction in JavaScript Cake in PHP Symfony in PHP5 Seagull in PHP PHP on Trax another […]

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Technology

What Makes a Podcast Successful

Since writing very critically about independent podcasting, I’ve been trying to prove myself wrong. I’ve since listened to many podcasts, and found a few things that seem to make or break a podcast from the point of view of a listener. 1. Multiple voices. None of the Podcasts I currently subscribe to are produced by […]

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Software Technology

Business as Usual

Dear Google and Sun, Thanks for making the connection between the JRE and Google toolbar for me. I hadn’t realized that because I wanted your runtime environment I also wanted to clutter up my browser a bit more. Makes sense now though. Maybe while you’re at it, you could also bundle in some other cool […]

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Design Software Technology

Tumblelog

Here’s something to keep an eye on – Tumblelogs. Basically a blog with quick posts consisting of pictures, quotes, links and whatever else is on the mind of the author. Tumblelogging is bound to grow–as of today there are 540 Google results for “tumblelog.” I predict 10,000 within 6 months. I’m not sure of the […]

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Software Technology

CMSFactor.com Launches!

After months of anticipation (you HAVE been anticipating it, haven’t you?) CMSFactor.com is finally ready to go, complete with a handful of new articles to get you started. Created by yours truly, the purpose of the site is to make content management system recommendations and give practical information (rather than the typical press releases on […]

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Software Technology

Two Great Mac Apps and One Missing In Action

The good: 1. iFlash – a flash card application for OS X, is everything you’d expect a Mac app to be. Clean, simple, intuitive and functional. I’m using it to study for the Real Estate exam and I couldn’t ask for better. It’s stable, actively developed and has enough features to make it powerful without […]

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Software Technology

The Death of Independent Podcasting

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Podcasting is nothing more than a phase. It will probably always be around in some format or other, but it is destined slow down to the point of existing in the form of only a few (maybe 20 or 30 at most) podcasts […]