Tag: web_apps

  • Panexa cures the blues!

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    I’m feeling a bit ho-hum today – it sounds like I might need some of the new miracle drug Panexa – if you are unfamiliar with Panexa – PANEXA is a prescription drug that should only be taken by patients experiencing one of the following disorders: metabolism, binocular vision, digestion (solid and liquid), circulation, menstruation,…

  • RSS for non-techies podcast

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    The previous post where I linked to the RSS for non-techies podcast doesn’t appear to be showing up for people subscribed to my podcasts, so I am linking to it again in this post – you can find the podcast here (10.5mb mp3). Hopefully it will show up this time!

  • It is wintertime (officially)

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    In case you missed it, the clocks went back an hour overnight so it is an hour earlier than you thought! Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful at explaining that to our 2 year old at 7a.m. (new time) this morning, so we were all up extra early 🙁

  • Google to release Google Office?

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    Susan Kuchinskas of internetnews.com, eWeek, Scoble and a bunch of others are all reporting that a Google-Sun alliance is set to announce a Google version of Microsoft’s Office suite of applications. Sun bring their much vaunted StarOffice codebase to this partnership while Google bring their experience of running massively trafficked web apps. Google Office is…

  • Yahoo! releases Site Explorer

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    I see that Yahoo! has launched its Site Explorer (Beta). Site Explorer allows you to explore all the pages in a particular site – when I did a lookup on this site, it found over 800 pages! I must be a lot more prolific than I thought! Some observations – by exploring on this site,…

  • Subscribe button II

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    Ok, FrankP and Alan (from Spoiltchild) had a great discussion in the comments of my post about using a Subscribe button and between them came up with the idea of combining a Subscribe button with a Help button – the Help button to lead to an explanatory page about Subscribing and RSS. Frank designed a…

  • Oh boy! Here we go again!

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    Cameraphone pic – apologies for the poor quality

  • Subscribe button

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    I posted yesterday about an RSS event I am organising and in the comments for that post I mentioned Dave Winer’s suggestion that we should use a “Subscribe” button on our blogs instead of “RSS” or “XML” FrankP read that comment and decided to run with that suggestion – Frank created a cool little white…