Category Archives: Tools

Tasty Cheers and Jeers 0

Social bookmarking website del.icio.us just announced today that they’ve been purchased by Yahoo!. As you can see by the comments on the del.icio.us blog there are mixed reactions. Many congratulations for their “big payday”, and quite a few unhappy readers who are making plans to find a new web-based bookmarking utility. I’ve had a del.icio.us [...]

Free Software List 0

I’ve started a page (also available off to the side) with a list of my favorite FREE software. I got the idea from here. Leave me comments as to your favorite free software, and maybe I’ll add it to the list

Three Cool New Things 0

You can now get weather from Yahoo! through an RSS feed. What makes this cool is it enables web programmers to include weather information onto their web pages with relative ease. Talk about some new plugins for blogging/CMS software. Zimbra is an open-source, web based email package with a “commitment to improving enterprise messaging and [...]

Isn’t That Just Plucky 0

Considering I tend to take semi-pride in my level of geekiness, there is a considerable amount of new technologies and innovation that I find out from my wife. I find that fitting though, as I think she would make a wonderful research librarian. She loves doing research and finding new things online, and she uses [...]

Konfabulous 0

Have you heard the big tech news of the day? Konfabulator was purchased by Yahoo! You may ask, what is this Konfabulator thing, and why do I need to use it? Well, here is the exact text from the Konfabulator web site: Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that [...]

Scratch That 0

I know that I’ve talked about this guy before, but he posted another great tool on his blog. This time it’s a slick script that allows you to quickly append text to a scratch file using AutoHotkey. Bren also talks a lot about GTD, and I’m going to start using this AutoHotkey script to try [...]