Archive for May, 2008

I’ve been trying out TripTouch, the widget for frequent travelers, while I’m traveling for the next two weeks to see what it does and what it can do for me while I’m on the road. But is TripTouch helpful for the business traveler or just road… Read More »

If you’re concerned about the sort of behavior tracking being carried out by companies like NebuAd and Phorm, then AnchorFree has a deal for you. Download and run their Hotspot Shield application (for either Windows or OS X), and you can surf anonymously. In return, though,… Read More »

 
 

Last weekend, my mother-in-law, a recent Mac convert, sent an email out to family with 111 photos embedded in the message. Yes, one hundred and eleven. My synagogue has been trying to save postage fees by emailing out the monthly bulletin…a PDF file that has averaged… Read More »

Towards the end of my last post, I talked about some of the potential advantages there could be in web workers getting together online to create local networks. In my view, since we’re still a marginal group in society, nobody’s going to go out of their… Read More »

If you’ve ever been in the frustrating position of needing to get something done while on the move, and having your notebook battery die, you know the mobile vicissitudes. As more and more people use hotspots, and compute on the go, I’m surprised that they often… Read More »

Today Apple released another free minor update for users of OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Depending on which version you’re coming from, it weighs in at somewhere in the 200 to 400MB range, which is pretty frightening for something that’s mostly fixes rather than new features. It… Read More »

I can’t count the number of times I’ve copied something on one computer and needed to paste it in to an application on another. Whether it’s moving emails and links around or composing a document from multiple pieces, this seems to be a common activity for… Read More »

More Must Reads

Ebook Tools for the Web Warrior

Past WWD contributor Leo Babauta has teamed up with LifeDev’s Glen Stansberry to launch Web Warrior Tools, a new ebook publishing house. Their plan is to present “ridiculously useful, powerful tools to change your life” at a reasonable price: $6 to $9 for offerings ranging from… Read More »

The Social Media Resume: Making Your Mark in a Web 2.0 World

When I bought a domain name based on my full name, I had no idea what to do with it. I didn’t want to create a blog, as it would be high maintenance, but I wanted to use it for my work. Then I… Read More »

Kinverge With Your Family and Friends

I’m in Tokyo right now and having recently let my .mac account lapse, I’m trying out several different ways of giving my family and friends back home a glimpse of what I’m seeing. Kinverge is a social network designed for just this task. Unlike most social networks,… Read More »

Sun’s xVM VirtualBox: Free Virtualization

Recently, I’ve been working with Sun’s open source xVM VirtualBox virtualization software, which is definitely worth a look for web workers who would like to run one more than one operating system on a single machine. Sun’s desktop virtualization environment runs on Windows, Solaris, Mac OS… Read More »

TaskPaper: Sometimes Simple is Best

True confession time: I get plenty of things done, but based on the last six months or so of trying to use it, the Getting Things Done system doesn’t work for me. Or rather, the sort of heavyweight task management that would have me categorize everything… Read More »

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