Flock 2.0 Beta2
Wed, Aug 13 2008 05:52
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I downloaded the latest beta of Flock 2 (I'm a little behind, I know) and I must say the speed improvement is pretty good. I was hoping for some fresh UI additions though, so far none. Not to say the the UI is dated, but Flock is known for a very clean/modern UI and for keeping up with design. This post is being sent from inside flock as a test as well. The blog editor is simple, but adequate.
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Common Craft explains social media
Sat, Jun 7 2008 09:51
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FriendFeed
So I know I am WAY behind the curve with this one, but I've finally set up a friendfeed here. So far though, doesn't appear that many of my friends or people I follow are on it, so maybe I'm not that far behind after all. Feed aggregation is great and all, but I really wish somebody would come out with a truly aggregated client, the pidgin of microblogging if you would. Something that can update twitter, jaiku, pownce, blogs, tumblr, etc. I know that this is one thing that flock is working toward, but I'd like to see something much lighter weight for this than a browser. It could be built on AIR I suppose, as that would probably be one of the easiest ways to get it on all platforms at once. I like what I've seen out of AIR apps, but am admittedly waiting for full integration in CS4 before delving too far into it. So anyway, one single friendfeed running for all gveloper news. Well, most of it...
Evernote
Sun, Jun 1 2008 01:48
| notes, notebooks, organization
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This week's screencast from ScreenCastsOnline was a member's only show about evernote. I had used evernote in the windows world some time ago, but it has since grown into an app/service hybrid in beta testing now that looks indispensable if you use it right. One of my biggest complaints about google notebook is the interface. I don't like working in web-only applications with no local syncing and wish google would come around to the fact that not all of us like being browser-bound. So for note taking I use, DevonNote, DevonThink, SOHO Notes, Word, and now EverNote. And yes I said Word. I think some of Microsoft's best people are on the Mac team there. I really like the notebook view in Mac Office (or is it Office:Mac? Anyway...). Evernote I like because you have local and remote synchronization, can access on mobile devices, has an iphone-specific interface, has OCR (optical character recognition) that works for all uploaded photos, meaning it can search for words in signs, tshirts, even handwriting, and has beautiful local clients for both the mac and windows platforms. The new platform is in beta right now and you need an invite, so either email me or head to SCO's forums to get yours.
I am playing around with a public notebook as well, and chose security as the generic topic for it (of course). You can see what a public notebook looks like by viewing it here. Hopefully I'll have a few of it's more powerful features utilized in this notebook soon. I think that evernote is a pretty valuable tool for anyone from bloggers to students, and with it's ease of use in publishing these notebooks to the web, maybe soon many professionals will publish their notes as well. So far I haven't seen the ability to make notebooks collaborative, but one can only imagine that it would be in the plans for something like this.
I am playing around with a public notebook as well, and chose security as the generic topic for it (of course). You can see what a public notebook looks like by viewing it here. Hopefully I'll have a few of it's more powerful features utilized in this notebook soon. I think that evernote is a pretty valuable tool for anyone from bloggers to students, and with it's ease of use in publishing these notebooks to the web, maybe soon many professionals will publish their notes as well. So far I haven't seen the ability to make notebooks collaborative, but one can only imagine that it would be in the plans for something like this.
RapidWeaver 4
Sat, May 31 2008 07:17
| gVeloper.com, Blogging, Blog
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So I've upgraded to rapidweaver 4 for this site. I have some changes in mind for the theme and design, so stand by for that. In the meantime, I'll be trying out some of the extensions and default themes available in the new app.
Updates
So the blog was offline for a little while at gveloper.com, but was still available from blogger. This has been fixed now and should be good for the foreseeable future.
I'm writing this update from the rooftop terrace at my building because it is so nice out this evening and I don't get outside nearly often enough. Which is sad considering I rented this place because there is so much here to go to locally.
We had some serious weather in the area last week. The news channels are saying that we had a whopping 8 confirmed tornados in our immediate on monday. For some of my closest friends, it was a pretty close call. Emergency services were dispatched out from all the surrounding municipalities to help cope with the severe destruction in several neighborhoods. I myself was out of the way of the storms altogether. It is crazy though, mostly since the area is so unprepared for something like tornados. We hardly ever have them, nevermind 8 in one wave, one of which may be the strongest ever recorded in the tidewater area.
At home I've learned the joys of trying to repair berber carpet. Then I learned the joys of letting the professionals do it. I would always go with the later when you can ;-)
I am keeping an eye on the rumors that twitter is leaving ruby-on-rails as their platform of choice. It seems that this is very interesting move in the web2.0 world. It would be a major blow to the platform if a player as big as twitter leaves them for scalability concerns.
I'm writing this update from the rooftop terrace at my building because it is so nice out this evening and I don't get outside nearly often enough. Which is sad considering I rented this place because there is so much here to go to locally.
We had some serious weather in the area last week. The news channels are saying that we had a whopping 8 confirmed tornados in our immediate on monday. For some of my closest friends, it was a pretty close call. Emergency services were dispatched out from all the surrounding municipalities to help cope with the severe destruction in several neighborhoods. I myself was out of the way of the storms altogether. It is crazy though, mostly since the area is so unprepared for something like tornados. We hardly ever have them, nevermind 8 in one wave, one of which may be the strongest ever recorded in the tidewater area.
At home I've learned the joys of trying to repair berber carpet. Then I learned the joys of letting the professionals do it. I would always go with the later when you can ;-)
I am keeping an eye on the rumors that twitter is leaving ruby-on-rails as their platform of choice. It seems that this is very interesting move in the web2.0 world. It would be a major blow to the platform if a player as big as twitter leaves them for scalability concerns.
