Bleeding Edge, always worth a look, points to a new Firefox extension for saving material off the web: Zotero. It not only does a great job of storing globs of web pages or the whole thing but it has an academic bent too, allowing you to store bibiographic information too. That said, it’s not musty:… Read More »
It’s been a while since I wrote about software for USB drives/flash drives/thumb drives/key drive, whatever you want to call them. Updating my apparently still popular directory of such software, now more than 18 months old, I came across a few recent bits of news I thought worth passing on: IBM now has a version… Read More »
Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration points to Adobe’s new version of Contribute 4.0, which now lets you compose blog posts from within Microsoft Office. As Amit points out, who is going to shell out $150 for something which Windows Live Writer and a host of other tools let you do for free? (These tools allow… Read More »
Some links and stories worth a look: Microsoft releases details of Zune, a sort of social networking iPod. More details here. Yahoo! releases its new email service, which looks nice but only highlights how full of Nigerian email scams my Yahoo! account has become. Talking of which, Charles Arthur from The Guardian is calling for… Read More »
A new Loose Wire blog feature, collecting some links that aren’t necessarily new, but worth pointing out in case you missed them: Good summary of what ubuntu, the new Linux windows-like interface, is and isn’t, from David Weinberger: “Until Ubuntu handles its inevitable errors and failures as well as Windows and the Mac do, users… Read More »