Read your GMail inbox in FeedDemon. As reported all over the place, Google recently added an Atom feed to each GMail account. To subscribe to your inbox Atom feed in FeedDemon, click the “New Channel” button and use this URL: https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom After subscribing, you'll be prompted for your GMail user name and password. The feed… Continue reading Read your GMail inbox in FeedDemon
Month: October 2004
Telework & Groove
Telework & Groove. As we wrote in our September email bulletin, telework is a hot topic. This recent Wall Street Journal article reports that in the U.S. the number of people telecommuting shot up 41% from last year. A recent global study by Pendaflex found that with more home offices and increased telecommuting, the boundaries… Continue reading Telework & Groove
Update: Curio 2.0
Update: Curio 2.0. The freeform environment for note-taking and sketching adds outline lists and to-do lists, user-definable flags and ratings, a more powerful integrated asset library, and more. [MacInTouch]
U.S. Report Finds Iraq Was Minimal Weapons Threat in '03
U.S. Report Finds Iraq Was Minimal Weapons Threat in '03. Iraq now appears to have destroyed its stockpiles of illicit weapons within months of the 1991 war, the top American inspector in Iraq said in a report. By DOUGLAS JEHL. [The New York Times > Home Page]
agile web site development
agile web site development. Jason Fried spoke yesterday at Web 2.0 in a talk titled “Ligtweight Business Models.” I might have titled his portion of the talk “Agile Design.” It seems like the ideas from Xtreme Programming aka Agile Development are cropping up for non-programmers. This internet savvy generation is not content as a worker… Continue reading agile web site development
MarsEdit and WYSIWYG editing
MarsEdit and WYSIWYG editing. An interesting question came up in the comments for the previous post: why doesn’t MarsEdit do WYSIWYG editing? We plan to add WYSIWYG editing in the future, but it’s not there yet. I’m not sure what more I can say publicly about it, because this feature depends on another company making… Continue reading MarsEdit and WYSIWYG editing
How to Kill an IT Project
How to Kill an IT Project. The sad secret of many technology projects in law firms is that they have become time and money sinkholes. As hard as getting tech projects started may seem to technology-starved lawyers in many firms, it is even harder to get the plug pulled on bad tech projects that have… Continue reading How to Kill an IT Project
Java and XP SP2 Firewall
Java and XP SP2 Firewall. One of the nice features in XP SP2 Firewall is that when an application tries to access the network, it opens a dialog asking if the application should be granted network access and remembers the choice user makes. This is great for normal applications. Unfortunately, Java applications all fall under… Continue reading Java and XP SP2 Firewall
No Cost Flex Non-Commercial / Non-Institutional Deployment License
No Cost Flex Non-Commercial / Non-Institutional Deployment License. The newly announced Macromedia Flex non-commercial/non-institutional deployment license enables individuals, including students, technology educators and individual developers to build and deploy Flex applications at no cost (except for a small shipping and handling fee). Participants also receive 1 license of Macromedia Flex Builder, the Macromedia IDE for… Continue reading No Cost Flex Non-Commercial / Non-Institutional Deployment License
Laszlo Goes Open Source
Laszlo Goes Open Source. Today is a big day for Laszlo. Until today, we were a software company selling a commercial platform for developing rich Internet applications. Meaning: you could license our software, install it on your servers, and develop and serve an advanced user experience using our server and application framework. This made a… Continue reading Laszlo Goes Open Source