Wow, just wow. I just watched the video for the upcoming version of Evernote, an application I used to use regularly back when I was a Windows user. Evernote’s claim to fame was that it allowed users to capture notes in a never-ending ribbon of paper paradigm. You could simply scroll back in time endlessly [...]
Archive for the ‘Geek Stuff’ Category
Line Rider to the ultimate extreme
This Line Rider video is off the charts insane. It’s an illustrated video, meaning someone took a bare-bones but impressive line rider course and put illustrations all over it to make it even cooler. video, online game
Test post from Flock
I have to admit that when I first heard about Flock, I thought that the hype was totally out of proportion with what it deserved to be. A Mozilla-based browser with a bunch of baked-in extensions seemed like a dumbed-down version of what someone could easily cobble together with Firefox and some carefully chosen add-ins. [...]
Testing Ecto
I’ve been reading quite a bit about the latest beta version of Ecto, and decided that I had to try it out for myself. Typically I’m not big on external editors for blogs, however I have to say this one is growing on me, and I’ve only been using it for about four minutes. I [...]
Google is a big whiner – google’s a verb, get over it
[Update] It seems Seth Godin agrees with me, at least that’s how I’m reading it. [/Update] I’m sorry, but I don’t care in the slightest that Google doesn’t want people to use the word “google” as a verb meaning “to search” in general terms. In fact, to me it sounds a bit silly when spoken [...]
Scrybe – Check it out at Download Squad
I don’t often promote my writing at Download Squad here on my personal blog, but today I need to point out a post I did about an upcoming web-based productivity suite called Scrybe. This thing looks incredible, and if it can deliver on the promises made in the promotional video, it’s going to be a [...]
NewsGator down – really bad timing (or was it down?)
*** This post has been updated. Please see below. *** One of the items I found in my inbox this morning was a reminder from NewsGator that my account was due to be billed for another year. The email included a handy link to ensure my billing information is up-to-date. Since I know that it’s [...]
Pocket PC Thoughts goes full-feed
A site that I used to frequent regularly, but was slowly fading and had actually been moved to my “on the bubble” folder in Bloglines (in other words, the folder that I relegate feeds to that are in danger of being unsubscribed) has made a surprising move: they’ve decided to go from partial feeds to [...]
Chris on Users vs. Developers
Chris Pirillo absolutely hits it out of the park on this rant about the chasm between developers and users, and why users should actually hold the power. I think he’s right in absolutely everything he says, and the best developers are ones that can think like a user (Nick Bradbury comes to mind). However, I [...]
Inventor of the spreadsheet comments on one of my posts
Wow – permit me a moment of geekiness. I posted over at TUMW about a video discussing the origins of the now ubiquitous CTRL-ALT-DEL key combination that every PC user knows. I happened to mention in the post that I recognized Dan Bricklin on the panel, and asked readers to comment if they recognized others. Now, [...]