A Wookiee in the City The Tumblelog

California Earthquake: Twitter First,...

California suffered an earthquake a few minutes ago. So where did everyone turn to report on and...

Oct 30th

Sharedview: Free Screen Sharing for Web...

Microsoft is out with a new beta 2 version of its Sharedview screen sharing and collaboration...

Oct 30th

Happy Halloween From The Sick People at...

Los Angeles based JibJab continues to expand its business beyond its traditional political satires....

Oct 30th

Pownce Releases Public API

Staying true to their announcement back in July, the Pownce team released a public API, which...

Oct 30th

Google prepping Gmail 2.0

Filed under: E-mail, Google It might be a good idea to scrutinize your Gmail account more closely...

Oct 29th

Three more Twitter apps for 140 chars of...

Since the Leopard upgrade, my favorite Twitter client hasn’t quite been working right. Maybe...

Oct 29th

How Gmail Blocks Spam

Oct 29th

iPhone Rumored For Canada On December...

According to a leaked advertisement out of Canada, Rogers cable/ISP/wireless company will begin...

Oct 28th

Is it time to "delete" my...

We’ve talked in the past about the many benefits an Exchange server provides. For a mobile...

Oct 27th

First Look At Leopard

I’ve had Leopard up and running on four Macs for 24 hours now and I think I’ve seen enough to talk a...

Oct 26th

Mozilla WebRuner becomes Prism, brings...

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services, Mozilla, BetaOh experimental...

Oct 26th

Mozilla Sunbird 0.7 and Lightning 0.7...

Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Mozilla, Open Source Mozilla’s open...

Oct 25th

GIMP 2.4: First major update in three...

Filed under: Design, Open Source If you’ve been thinking it’s been a while since GIMP...

Oct 25th

Apple OS X Leopard: First Hour Impressions

Oct 25th

SyncToy v2.0 Beta now available

Microsoft has shipped a public beta of SyncToy 2.0, which looks interesting: SyncToy helps you...

Oct 25th

Microsoft SyncToy 2.0 beta released

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Microsoft, Freeware Microsoft has released SyncToy...

Oct 25th

Blogger and Google Calender: Google...

Google Gears, Google’s platform for running online applications while not connected to the internet,...

Oct 24th

Le iPhone en janvier chez Rogers ?

Selon l’éditeur du site Mobile in Canada, Rogers pourrait bien offrir le iPhone à compter du...

Oct 24th

Google Desktop update for Leopard

By Mark Sabec, Associate Product Marketing Manager, and Mike Pinkerton, Software Engineer This...

Oct 24th

Confirmed: Microsoft Wins Facebook Stake...

The Wall Street Journal is confirming that Microsoft has won the battle for expanded control over...

Oct 24th

Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About

Oct 24th

Google Calendar Now Works With Gears

Google Gears, that nifty (beta) application that enables certain other applications to work in...

Oct 24th

GMail Phasing In IMAP

Now here’s a bit of interesting news out of the Mountain View giant: Google appears to be in the...

Oct 23rd

Gmail gets IMAP

Filed under: Business, Internet, E-mail, Web services, Google It appears that Google is working...

Oct 23rd

Google Makes Calendar Available Offline,...

Oct 23rd

With FriendCSV, Data Sneaks Out...

As we’ve suggested before, there is an underlying problem with many proprietary systems - such as...

Oct 23rd

Geek To Live: Get Organized with Remember the...

Oct 23rd

Exclusive: Google Gears Now on Calendar

I just saw an interesting pop-up message while opening-up Google Calendar. It said the application...

Oct 23rd

This Disaster Will Be Twitterized

When I was 16 years old, I was jumped in to independent journalism by the Oklahoma City bombing of...

Oct 23rd

Twitter hashtags for emergency...

I know I’ve been beating the drum about hashtags for a while. People are either lukewarm to them or...

Oct 23rd

Walt Mossberg: "Free My Phone"

Oct 22nd

25 Skills Every Man Should Know - Ultimate...

Oct 21st

Pour mes amis geeks …

Comme le dollar américain perd de plus en plus de valeur, Bush est en train de préparer sa...

Oct 20th

Beginner's Guide to Photography for Geeks Who...

Oct 19th

Getting things done the Vitalist way

Filed under: Internet, Productivity, Web services, web 2.0 It’s Friday, and Download Squad...

Oct 19th

Flickr Launches New Geotagging and...

When I heard that Flickr was making announcements this evening, I assumed it was the long awaited...

Oct 19th

net@nite Update

Amber and I did our first test recording of the new net@nite yesterday and despite a few technical...

Oct 18th

Sir, We Found Him, His IP address is...

Oct 18th

Google Reader: Create a Gmail Database...

Google Reader’s built- in search feature has made Reader a million times better, but if you...

Oct 18th

Update to Tumblr Finally On the Way

Microblogging service Tumblr today released a short but succinct teaser to fans of the service by...

Oct 18th

Microsoft Launches Drag-And-Drop App...

Microsoft just demoed on stage at the Web 2.0 conference a slick Silverlight application development...

Oct 18th

Meebo moves to the Firefox sidebar

Filed under: Internet, Web services, P2PMeebo, the web-based instant messaging application that runs...

Oct 18th

Forward 40: What Became of the LOGO...

Cross posted from our friend Aaron Rowe at Wired Science: Forty years ago, researchers developed...

Oct 17th

25 useful Greasemonkey scripts that took me 4...

Oct 17th

Gmail Tip: Streamline Your Mass...

Gmail users: If you regularly compose emails to a set group of multiple recipients, it’s time...

Oct 17th

iPhone SDK is coming…

How news spreads… Dave Winer just called me and said Apple is coming out with an iPhone SDK next...

Oct 17th

Google Docs Introduces Mobile Version

While speculation continues over the “GPhone” and when a device with Google’s rumored mobile...

Oct 17th

Panasonic - Camcorders - SDR-S10

Oct 16th

DocSyncer Bridges Your Desktop With...

One of the biggest drawbacks to working with Webtop productivity applications such as Google Docs or...

Oct 15th

Facebook Sucks, Dave Winer says

Dave Winer wrote: Why Facebook Sucks. Can’t say I disagree. I think it sucks because it isn’t...

Oct 14th

Heineken WOBO - The brick that holds beer

Oct 13th

Never ever delete email, Gmail storage...

Filed under: Business, Internet, E-mail, Google, SearchRunning out of Gmail space already? How would...

Oct 12th

More Gmail storage coming for all

Posted by Rob Siemborski, Gmail Engineer When people ask me about my job, one of the common...

Oct 12th

Starbucks to set WiFi free?

Mike Elgan from Computerworld seems to think so. He predicts that within a year, Starbucks will...

Oct 11th

Unofficial Gtalk Application for...

Gtalk is now available as a Facebook application, through the use of the Google Talk Gadget. It...

Oct 11th

This Is Your Brain…

Are you right-brained or left-brained? Look at the picture of the dancer. According to the...

Oct 11th

Oracle Standby Databases (SAP Library - SAP...

Oct 11th

Taking notes with Twitter using...

Filed under: Design, Developer, Fun, Internet, Blogging, Productivity, Web services, Search, web...

Oct 11th

Pogue Reviews the Palm Centro

David Pogue: Palm hoped that by trimming the Treo’s size and price, it would create a totally...

Oct 10th

Featured Windows Download: Make Any...

Windows only: Carry any application with you on your thumb drive with freeware virtual PC software...

Oct 10th

Stay up-to-date! Hot to keep up with the...

Oct 10th

IMified Announces Developer Platform. ...

IMified, the the tool that lets you interact with web applications via your instant messaging...

Oct 10th

Google: Why Jaiku and not Twitter?

It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall over at Twitter HQ today, now that Google has...

Oct 9th

Google Buys Jaiku

Great news for Jyri and Petteri and the Jaiku team - Google has just bought the company. This is...

Oct 9th

65+ Online Calendars and Calendar Tools

Oct 9th

Put an Office in Your Pocket - lifehack.org

Oct 9th

Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not...

Jaiku has announced that it has been acquired by Google. Jaiku is the Twitter-like service for...

Oct 9th

Google acquires Jaiku

Oct 9th

Google Acquires Microblogging Service Jaiku

Oct 9th

Google buys Jaiku

Filed under: Web services, Google, Social Software, web 2.0Google seems to be intent on making...

Oct 9th

Step By Step: Display Your GCal Agenda...

You already know that you can load bookmarks in Firefox’s sidebar, and that narrow webapps...

Oct 9th

Updated GTD/Productivity Links List 04th...

It’s been a while since I updated my list of GTD & productivity sites/blogs so today I will add...

Oct 8th

Google and IBM Hook Up on Cloud...

Google is teaming up with IBM on an initiative to teach “cloud computing” at six different...

Oct 8th

Put an Office in Your Pocket

Just about everyone these days knows how useful a USB thumb drive can be for moving files from...

Oct 8th

MojoPac virtual desktop goes free

Filed under: Windows, Commercial, Freeware Portable applications are great. Throw a word processor,...

Oct 8th

MojoPac Freedom: no cost mobile...

Great news from RingCube: they’ve set their mobile virtual environment application, MojoPac,...

Oct 8th

65+ Online Calendars and Calendar Tools

Many of us prefer to manage our appointments, social events, and to-do lists with online...

Oct 8th

Using the TwitterFox Extension for...

If you are a Twitter user and Firefox is your web browser of choice, then you might want to check...

Oct 7th

Featured Download: Access Webapps in a...

Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla’s new stripped-down browser WebRunner offers distraction-free...

Oct 5th

Checkers with the Isometric Game Engine

It’s Friday game day! Raphael has created an SVG based Checkers game using his Isometric Game...

Oct 5th

Darkwookiee: Anyone knows some good web...

Anyone knows some good web resources to start photography … I mean to learn about camera,...

Oct 5th

SAP as a Web 2.0 Company?

By Tim O’Reilly I bet most people would regard the title of this post as an oxymoron. Surely...

Oct 3rd

It’s a Database. It’s a Spreadsheet....

Zoho is adding another weapon to its arsenal today - Zoho DB - raising its total number of online...

Oct 3rd

25+ Productivity Modules For iGoogle

We already know we can turn Netvibes into our personal office. Why not do the same with iGoogle,...

Oct 3rd

ADrive.com offers users 50GB of free...

   ADrive.com has launched its beta online file storage service offering users up to 50GB of...

Oct 3rd

Get the Most Out of Gmail

Maybe I am late to the party but I just found out about Wired’s How-to Wiki. A very nice...

Oct 2nd

Are Editors Needed To Sort Through Digg...

A year ago everyone (including me) was talking about how social news startups like Digg and Reddit...

Oct 2nd

Scrabulous is fabulous on Facebook

I have a confession. The reason why you’ve heard barely a peep from me isn’t because I’ve been...

Oct 2nd

Wixi Gives Away 5,000 Invites to Our...

Media-centric social network Wixi, which launched at TechCrunch40 a couple of weeks ago, is giving...

Oct 1st

Adobe enters the web office fray

Filed under: Internet, Office, Adobe, Beta While Microsoft is taking steps to web-ify its offline...

Oct 1st