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Adobe AIR Goes to Work: 6 Apps for the Corporate Desktop
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on June 12, 2008
By now, you've heard of Adobe AIR - the cross-OS runtime that lets you run rich internet applications on your desktop. We've covered several of our favorite apps in the past, as well as places to find new ones, but so far all we've seen are consumer applications. What about the business world? Will companies ever be using AIR apps on their desktops? As it turns out, many already do...
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Drive-by Tips for Centralizing Your Content on the Internet
via Stepcase Lifehack by Joel Falconer on June 16, 2008
Last week, I wrote on how bloggers could make the most effective use of the FriendFeed service. A question I heard from a few people went something like this:I’m not a blogger, but I want to centralize my content on the Internet. How do I do this?There are so many ways to manage information online, and many ways to centralize various types of information. The main decision is in deciding which...
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CSS Designs for Free
via Web Worker Daily by Mike Gunderloy on June 14, 2008
If you’re a web developer, you may have a love-hate relationship with CSS: it’s great stuff, but it’s hard to go from a blank screen to a fully-worked-out design, especially if writing CSS isn’t your everyday activity. To jumpstart your thinking the next time you get stuck on this problem, bookmark Open Source Web Designs: over 2000 web site designs, with the majority of them being...
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Weekly Wrapup, 26-30 May 2008
via ReadWriteWeb by Richard MacManus on May 30, 2008
Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we covered announcements by Google about Gears and App Engine, we looked at some compelling Yahoo! Pipes apps, we checked out Strands Lifestreaming, and we reviewed promising Semantic Apps Faviki and Freebase. On the trends side we analyzed the contentious Semantic Search market, we looked at...
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FbCal Puts Facebook Birthdays in Your Calendar [Facebook]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 27, 2008
One of the best side effects of using Facebook is knowing when your contacts' birthdays are—but you only see them if you log in. The Facebook application fbCal is out to fix that. Once you install it on Facebook, fbCal creates an iCal file for your Facebook contacts' birthdays as well as Facebook events. Subscribe to the feed in your iCal-enabled calendar app of choice, like...
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SensibleUnits Helps You Make Sense of Measurements [Web Utilities]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on June 03, 2008
Whether you're looking at apartments or houses, planning a renovation project, or just reading the news, some measurements can be pretty hard to visualize. Web utility SensibleUnits converts abstract numbers into more real-world comparisons. You can fit just over seven football fields into 10 acres, for example, and 150 kilograms weighs the same as about 9 CRT monitors. Could come in handy...
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Go to Disney World Without Leaving Your Desk [Google Earth]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on June 04, 2008
Google adds a 3D tour of Disney World to the latest version of Google Earth (4.3), which lets you "zoom down Main Street, USA, fly around Cinderella Castle, explore Spaceship Earth and climb the Tree of Life."
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LastGraph - Visualize Your Last.fm History
via ReadWriteWeb by Corvida on May 30, 2008
Last.fm is a great music service that keeps track of your listening habits. Though you can view stats such as last played tracks, top artists, or most played songs with just words and numbers, it can be limiting in so many ways. We're huge fans of visualization tools, so wouldn't it be cool if you could grab a visual history of your Last.fm stats? LastGraph is just the service for the...
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Award Winning Fiction in 140 Characters
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 29, 2008
"Constraints drive innovation and force focus," according to 37Signals in their popular "Getting Real" book. If that's true, then Copyblogger's Twitter Writing Contest, announced a couple of weeks ago, should have had writers brimming with creativity. The task? Write a short story in 140 characters. Not less than 140 characters, exactly 140 characters. That's no easy task, but...
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Protonote: Annotating Website Prototypes
via Web Worker Daily by Imran Ali on June 01, 2008
I like simple. Simple means I don’t have to think too hard and - done well - has a kinda elegance about it. Mike Padilla’s Protonotes is one such idea, a service that provide a simple and elegant solution to a clear problem - annotating web sites that are works in progress with sticky notes.Re-launched just a few days ago from its previous incarnation as an Internet Explorer based tool, the...
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