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Wordpress - Facebook - Twitter - All Connected
I love the way Twitter Tools has connected my blog to twitter. And facebook’s Twitter Application has tied my twitter to my facebook status.
I just love integration.
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Wrote my own theme
I couldn’t deal with any of the existing themes available for wordpress. Just had to write my own. Every now and then the geek in me just goes ballistic. While the nation is going into elections tomorrow, even though I still can’t understand why, I figured I’ll work on tweaking wordpress. This theme is not near as professional as most available out there, but I hope to keep tweaking it till it looks decent.
Any comments and suggestions would be highly appreciated. Please add them as comments under this post. Thanks…
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Online Applications Continued
Yet another reason to use online applications. In July 2006 the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Officers were given the authority to go through your laptops, and other digital media, just as they could go through books, etc. in your luggage. They don’t have to give any reasons for conducting such a search, nor do they need to tell you what all they’re downloading from your media. Our friends at downloadsquad have been nice enough to do a little write-up to help avoid any breech of privacy in such an incidence.
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Bubbles
I’m so in love with online applications. Gmail, Flickr, Picnik, Facebook, etc. etc. But I also hate having them inside tabs in internet browsers like Firefox or Internet Explorer. Bubbles takes care of that, and let’s you run web applications (and even web sites) from within their own application “bubbles”. I’ve just installed the application, and am beginning to like it more with every passing minute. Recommended.
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Photo Editing Continued
I had written about online photo editors a few days ago. The newest entrant in this category is FotoFlexer. It’s not near as capable or sexy as Picnik, but still worth a try, if you’re looking for something simple and yet efficient.
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Moli
Finally a social networking portal where I can have more than one profile. I was so sick of having just one profile on sites like orkut and facebook.
Here’s my first (and the only one the world will know about 
profile on Moli
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Video Editing
For all us simple people, who don’t have access to Macs and must rely on Microsoft Movie Maker (Yuck) to edit our works of media excellence, there is renewed hope. I’ve been using Pinnacle’s commercial software for many years, but found it all a bit too heavy for “fixing” my street videos. I was pleased to see Pinnacle’s latest FREE offering VideoSpin. It’s a simple, quick, and not so dirty, video editor which can eithe rfix your video clips, or make one from your still images.
Enjoy!!!
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Photo Editing
Digital cameras have created more photographers than George Eastman could have ever imagined. But these days taking a picture is just the beginning of the process. Post-process is where it’s all at. Those of us who either don’t want to spend on things like Corel’s Photopaint or Adobe’s Photoshop, can also take advantage of the online applications, and for FREE. There are quite a few apps out there but two definitely deserve mention: Picnik and Splashup.
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Desktop Alive
Desktop Alive is my term for “Online Desktops”. In my posting Operating System Neutral I talked of using online office replacements to store and handle your wordprocessing, spreadsheeting, and presentation tasks. For those who are strong of heart can even take their complete desktop online. This would mean, it doesn’t matter which computer they’re physically sittin behind, all they need is a web browser, to have their complete desktop environement available to them. I’ve used most of these services, and find goowy to be the best for now. A close relative of goowy, which also belongs to goowy is yourminis. Yourminis is an online widget platform, that lets you put pretty much everything in a widget. Quite a slick web application. Interestingly AOL recently acquired Goowy and Yourminis.
Some other online desktops that deserve mention are: My Goya, Online Operating System, Live Gnome.
Not really online desktops but becoming powerful “MY” pages are: Yahoo, iGoogle, and Microsoft’s Live. Yahoo and Live show great potential. iGoogle looks like a bat out of hell.
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Operating System Neutral
I’m calling this O/S Neutral and not Online Office Replacements as they’re commonly cold. For me all major O/S manufacturers realize that just about everything will now be done online, and the choice of O/S will depend on things like speed, hardware, light-weight, etc. etc.; and not by the choice of additional software available. Youtube lets you edit videos online. Picnik lets you edit and fix your pictures online. And there are all these lovely Office replacements online, like Zoho, Thinkfree, and most of all Google Docs. Live Documents is still in private beta, but holds great promise.
According to a recent survey conducted by NPD 73% of U.S. computer users have never heard of web based productivity suites. Even though I don’t have a survey of Pakistani users, but numbers are probably worse, based on my personaly experience.
More and more I’ve been telling people to stop putting data on their computers, and to start storing everything online. With time, there’s no real reason to even have applications like Microsoft Office or Star Office on your desktops. Now this prediction is not for people writing novels, or using spreadsheets for stock exchange analytics. This is only for the average Jack and Jill, who fires up gigantic wordprocessors to write one-page letters, or spreadsheets for making a small table. Even presentation applications (powerpoint replacements) are part of the online office replacements I’ve mentioned above.
More than anything I see two very strong benefits of using online office software:
1/ Protecting data from data loss due to hard drive crashes or viruses.
2/ No need to dish out mega-bucks for desktop applications.
Additional benefits include access to your data from anywhere in the world, and being able to collaborate with others.
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