In the Cloud
I just picked up a Mimo 710 monitor for no other reason than it looked like a really cool gadget and after a couple days am liking it quite a bit. If you’re not familiar with it, it is a small monitor that is USB powered and can be set up in portrait or landscape [...]
MessageLabs, a division of Symantec, said today the presence of shortened URLs in spam has skyrocketed over the past few days and now appears in more than two percent of all spam. Matt Sergeant, anti-spam technologist at Message Labs: “The entire trust model of clicking on the URL is completely broken. You can’t trust any [...]
Cool stuff. I am glad to see this go live — particularly to post via my phone (although a Posterous purist would say Posterous can already do this and more… Don’t forget to add the Flickr2Twitter email address to your phone’s contacts. Your personal flickr email address will most likely not be easy to remember.
One of the concerns I had with using Posterous for my blog was ensuring I had my own backup of my posts given the company is still in start-up mode and the content is hosted on their servers. Luckily, they have an API, and if you are a Mac user it is very easy to [...]
Every now and then I need to copy text into my Twitter client app and need to know if I am bumping against the 140 character limit. I wrote this quick applescript to simplify my life. It counts the number of characters in the clipboard and subtracts that number from 140, so you know if [...]
I am the process of testing out Posterous as my primary blogging platform. You probably won’t see much here as I give Posterous a test run. Please visit me on Posterous at http://kenclark.me or subscribe to my Posterous RSS feed: http://kenclark.me/rss.xml. Thanks!
I’ve been playing around with FriendFeed over the last couple days, and as much as I want to like it and really admire some of its features, I will admit it has been hard for me to get my mind around how to manage the volume of data that flows through it without getting totally overwhelmed.
That said, I am not giving up on it, but I was curious to see how bleeding edge the adoption was outside of the regulars on TWIT and the general technorati, so tonight I tried a simple test.
Yahoo’s Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is a great tool to have in your arsenal to supplement how you implement Getting Things Done (GTD). In particular, I use Delicious to manage many of my Someday / Maybe and reference lists. Here is a quick overview of how it works.
Over the last two weeks, I have been pretty excited to see a flurry of activity from the folks at Delicious after what has been a rather quiet second half of the year. Does this indicate that we may be in for more active and frequent updates to the core Delicious functionality over the next year? I hope so.
Google Reader has been my feed reader of choice for awhile now, but it has never achieved the status of a must-have application that I cannot live without. It was only recently that I recognized the reason I have never wholeheartedly embraced it is because I believe it is designed in a way that creates a drag on my personal Getting Things Done (GTD) system; which for me lessens my desire both consciously and subconsciously to make it part of my daily routine.