“If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.”
You have to admire someone who can strike to the core with an idea. I love it.
TECH: JOESGOALS take a simple idea and make it elegant. Highly recommended.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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TECH: JIBBERJOBBER is living up to their promise!
Thursday, October 12, 2006I heard from a usually reliable source that JIBBERJOBBER is backing their assertion to give free service to vets with action.
(Honesty is such a rare commodity these days! We hear all the case where people don’t live up to their promises. They can’t in all modesty toot their own horn. But I can. Toot, toot, TOOT!)
I’m told that JibberJobber has extended their offer to to some disabled vets even thought they are not from Iraqi#2. Kudos to them for their stepping up to the plate.
Now if we could just get the politicians to do more than “lip service”.
Any way, applause in the direction of JIBBERJOBBER, please. They deserve it imho.
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TECH: Use FEEDBLITZ to create a backup of your blog and GOOGLEDESKTOP to search it
Thursday, October 12, 2006The recent closure of a free bloging service made me feel sorry for those that have content there. Losing your stuff is horrendous and often irretrievable.
Given how stuff happens on the inet, one can’t even be sure that a paid service won’t stop working. Things break; strategies change; sites make decisions. All these things make you a hostage to who holds your data. Now, when I evaluate any new idea, my first concern is if I put effort “in”, can I get my stuff “out”. I’ve been suckered too many times.
So here’s a way to protect blog content that is important to you. (Some blogs I read, it obvious that it’s an afterthought and losing it would be no big deal. I even have one of those for my fellow alums where I post Jasper Sports stories. My fellow alums felt that it cluttered up my ezine. And, so, I created a free blog for that genre. If I lose it, no big deal.
BUT what about content I care about? For example, I want to self publish this blog at the end of the year, and give my Mom a book. I think she always wanted me to be “somebody”, make “something” of myself, or fulfill my “potential”. I figure a nice bound book would fool her into thinking I was an author. That’s pretty somebody-ish. She can say “my son the author”. Not as good as my son the Donald, the doctor, the lawyer, the indian chief. But it’ll have to do.
So, to prevent losing anything and to have the input to self publish, I use FEEDBLITZ to collect my blog postings each day and send me an email. I use a gmail account for that purpose. This creates TWO backups of my blog. As a side benefit, I can use GOOGLEDESKTOP to search the local copy or GMAIL to search the mail archive of it.
That’s me Mister Belt and Suspenders!
You might want to consider it.
Now about becoming an Indian Chief, is it painful?
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TECH: EPONYM drops free blog hosting
Wednesday, October 11, 2006***Begin Quote***
Starting November 1st Eponym will start providing a free 30 day trial blog and will be discontinuing our free blog package. For those of you who are using our free blog package, you will be automatically moved to the free 30 day trial package on November 1st. At the end of the 30 day trial (November 30th), your blog will need to be upgraded for your blog to remain active.
If you wish to keep your blog active, please go to https://secure.eponym.com/upgrade/ to upgrade.
It was a hard decision for us to stop offering the free blog package, however there were two major factors that influenced us. First, we did not like having to put advertisements on people’s blogs. We know that our users would put up with the ads to have a free blog, but we don’t want you to have to “put up” with anything, especially an invasive and annoying ad on your blog that you can’t control. Second, the advertising revenue from the free blogs that we did receive was not nearly enough to cover the costs of providing the free blogs. Looking at these two reasons, we knew that we had to make a change to keep Eponym going strong.
We apologize for the inconvenience that this causes for some of you, but we feel that it is absolutely necessary for us to continue to provide the best blogging service, software, and community on the Internet.
Thank you for using Eponym!
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Hmmm. Bad news for anyone who has content there.
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TECH: OPERA9 is impressive
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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TECH: PRINTERALL — I like it.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006http://www/printeranywhere.com
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PrinterAnywhere is a solution to print documents from a computer connected to the Internet to other people’s printers on the network. With PrinterAnywhere you can share your printers with other or print your documents on someone else’s printer.
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I like it. It’s useful. I use it. It’s free!
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TECH: PLAXO didn’t have the latest info for one of my contacts. Hmmm!
Tuesday, October 10, 2006One of my contacts is Plaxo, but he has his old employers address. So, Plaxo SAYS it’s the latest but it is in fact ng. Perhaps I have uncovered a flaw in the model? Hmmm?
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TECH: Free DIKW being given away
Monday, October 9, 2006http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/10/07/freetechbookscom/
FreeTechBooks.com Posted Oct 7th 2006 4:35PM by Ryan Carter
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Looking for some great free books, or some stored knowledge in the form of e-books, lecture notes, programming texts? FreeTechBooks.com has you covered. All books are legally free and available for online viewing or download. There is a lot of great stuff here, and the only “catch” is that the texts are bound by their own terms, which isn’t a problem in my book. Most of the titles are in the computer science or related areas like operating systems, programming, logic and systems analysis and design. There is enough stuff here to keep you busy for a weekend, or several weekends depending on how many programming languages and texts you are interested in.
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I like free!
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TECH: Sharewood Picnic 73 has one good idea
Sunday, October 8, 2006October 8, 2006
New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 73
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1. Octopz http://www.octopz.com is a online service that facilitates online collaboration, in either synchronous or asynchronous enviroments through the use of digital media, web conferencing, VoIP and content management technologies.
Nah, what about privacy and security.
2. Cruxy https://www.cruxy.com is a place for people to buy, sell, and promote each other’s original creative works.
Nah, I do do creative works. At least, nothing anyone would pay me for.
3. Mozeo http://www.mozeo.com is a mobile community that connects you to your friends and information, anytime and anywhere.
Nah, don’t need it.
4. RightCart http://rightcart.com/ allows you to add a store to your own blog, your personal webpage, or your small business website in minutes.
Nah, nothing to sell.
5. Speechi http://www.speechi.net/us/ is a tool that allows you to convert your PowerPoint presentations into a Flash files (with no audio) and showcase them online.
Nah, no need.
6. PlinkMe http://plinkme.com is an online service that enables photographers to upload and get their pictures used across the internet with links back to their site, enabling them to check how their photos are being used.
Nah, no need.
7. Nakama http://nakama.ca/ is a web service that enables you to take pictures or videos from your phone and publish them straight to your blog, Flickr gallery, even your MySpace or Windows Live Spaces page.
Nah, no need.
8. PollDaddy http://www.polldaddy.com is a online tool which allows you to create polls and place them on your website or blog, or anywhere online.
That sounds useful.
9. MagneticTime http://www.magnetictime.com is a software which allows you to ‘listen’ to your Outlook emails and Word documents on your iPod, mobile phone or PDA, in mp3 format.
Nah, no need.
10. SubmitEmNow http://www.submitemnow.com is a Mozilla Firefox extension which will allows bloggers to submit their blogs easily and freely to the most important online directories.
Nah, no need.
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One possibility, but it made me think.
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TECH: SYNAPSELIFE is a mobile tool that just came out to beta
Sunday, October 8, 2006***Begin Quote***
SynapseLife is currently 8 web/mobile applications available for you to use for free. Take the time to set-up your personal account/URL and enjoy. We are here for you so please provide us with any feedback, bad or good, that could help us make your experience with SynapseLife better.
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May be useful.
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