A Wookiee in the City The Tumblelog

Apr
24th

Thu

Best Contact Management Applications [Hive Five]

Your contact list is growing larger every day, and so are the number of email addresses, instant messaging handles, and phone numbers your contacts use. That means you’d do well to find…

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Writer, the web-based distraction-free writing ... [In Brief]

Writer, the web-based distraction-free writing environment we’ve mentioned before, has usefully updated to import text files, export PDFs, email documents and create printer-friendly pages.

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Open Registration at Evernote

Evernote (which we looked at a few weeks back) is still in closed beta, despite all the good press you’ve probably seen. But in celebration of their first million saved notes,…

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Put Facebook Chat in Firefox's Sidebar [Chat]

The Digital Inspiration blog suggests that Facebook’s new browser-based chat system, which we stood up against Gmail’s web chat yesterday, works well running inside a Firefox sidebar. To…

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Alert Thingy 1.3 Released: Single User Interface For Twitter And FriendFeed

Note: Unless you are a Twitter and/or FriendFeed addict, this post isn’t for you.

Twitter/FriendFeed desktop client Alert Thingy just released version 1.3 of the software.

It is now a…

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Remember the Milk Introduces Sync for Blackberry

Last week, I raved about Remember the Milk’s Gmail extension for keeping my inbox clean and action-oriented. Shortly thereafter, the good folks at RTM gave me something else to cheer…

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Apr
23rd

Wed

Chat Me Up! Facebook Makes Chat Available to Everyone

by Brian Solis

On April 6th, Facebook quietly started to roll out its new chat application to certain market demographics. As the system scaled, the deployment expanded. As of today, Facebook…

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Integrate a Personal Wiki into Outlook's Today pane [Customization]

Lifehacker reader and TiddlyWiki enthusiast Fraser has written up a guide that takes the idea of cut-and-paste Outlook Today customizing to the next logical (or at least…

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Solid .PDF Alternatives to Adobe

Recently, I became annoyed enough with constant prompts for software updates and pop-up messages from Adobe that I decided to try alternatives to Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. (I swear, they…

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Take Your Friends' Activities Wherever You Go With MySocial 24X7

These days when I’ve got a hunger for some data I go to FriendFeed more often than I go anywhere else. It’s great to be able to see all my friends’ activities across multiple networks in one…

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