Whether or not you think Gmail is evil, it’s the best webmail I’ve ever used. I’ve been playing with it since Wednesday morning, and I must say that I am mightily impressed. It’s got filters, labels, flags, keyboard shortcuts, searching, spam reporting, spellcheck, and an excellent way to handle conversation threads. Plus, it’s damned fast. [...]
Yet another beautiful Flash hoomiejobbie: “Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a [...]
When I ponder over a decade of muds, mucks, and mushes, it’s hard for me to imagine wanting to experience anything other than a text-based virtual environment. After all, I have always been in love with words. And then I think of Second Life. I like having someplace to go like this Tree Isle of [...]
Like my friend Gregory, I used LaunchBar but never got hooked on it. His post on Quicksilver as an alternative to LaunchBar intrigued me, so I installed it. With just a few keystrokes, I have the ability to browse just about anything I want on my laptop, including my iTunes library, address book entries, bookmarks, [...]
I’m suspicious of these brown nugget-shaped entities that are referred to as “candy” … My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul cygnoir goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Number 6. cirocco tricks you! You get a piece of tinfoil. ergazork gives you 1 brown coffee-flavoured nuggets. funkyplaid gives you 15 tan cherry-flavoured nuggets. inkbot tricks you! You get a [...]
