Filed under: Features, Windows, Freeware, Open Source, Lists, Windows x64
Depending on your internet connection you might be able to download a lot more (or a lot less) than 1Mb in two seconds - but calling this a post about apps under a meg just isn’t quite as much fun!
No, you don’t really need to [...]
Filed under: Utilities, Web services
There are a lot of ways to measure how quickly your site loads, but most of them aren’t going to be reflective of how your users perceive your load time. Webslug is a tool that attempts to give you a read on the load time from request to fully-loaded. You can [...]
Filed under: Fun, Text, Social Software
A couple of years ago, there was a site called ficlets, a home for collaborative fiction stories put together in super-short 1024-character bursts. Ficlets was great, because anybody could jump in and add to a story in no time at all, and some interesting work grew out of it. When [...]
Filed under: Audio, Photo, Video, Blogging, Web services, Social Software
Pixelpipe defies definition a bit, but basically it’s a mo-blogging / mobile micro-blogging tool that satisfies nearly every sharing feature I’ve ever wanted from my mobile since the first time I picked up a smartphone.
When I mention Pixelpipe to people they usually say, “Oh, like [...]
Filed under: Time-Wasters
Today is a historic day. Not only is it the 65th anniversary of D-Day (and my grandfather, a US Naval Captain was there), It is the 25th anniversary of the greatest puzzle game of all time: Tetris. In honor of Alexey Pajitnov’s awesome creation, I’ve tracked down some awesome ways to play Tetris [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Social Software, web 2.0
In response to a lawsuit by famed baseball manager Tony LaRussa, Twitter has decided to speed up the process of launching those verified accounts we’ve been hearing buzz about for the past few months.
In a post on the Twitter blog, Biz Stone asserts that while there’s no [...]
Filed under: Web services, Social Software
Favorites are a dramatically underused feature on Twitter, but if you know where to look, you can use them to find some people you might be interested in following. Twitterbelle is a new site that makes that process easier. Just put in the username of someone you think is interesting [...]
Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft
There’s a new product page for Windows 7 on the Microsoft Store. And while there’s no word on official pricing yet, there are pictures showing what the Windows 7 retail packaging will look like. And wouldn’t you know it, it looks exactly like the leaked images that were first found [...]
Filed under: Productivity, Web services
Somewhere between the vagueness of to-do lists and the complication of calendars, there’s Superminder . It’s a simple email and SMS reminder service that looks great and works will a minimum of fuss. Set a timezone, give it an email and a mobile number, and away you go. Reminders just get [...]
Filed under: Web services, Search
A few months ago, Brad wrote about a Firefox plugin called SimilarWeb that shows a sidebar full of sites related to the one you’re currently looking at. SimilarWeb is still around, but now anybody can use a non-plugin version called SimilarSites. Instead of installing anything, you just type in the URL [...]
