Tuesday, April 25, 2006

ThinkFree Online Review at ExtremeTech

I haven't tried this yet, but it looks interesting. It's an online suite of MS Office-like applications -- all free and supported through banner ads. You get 1GB free space on their site. Good for creating documents when you are not on your own machine and don't have your usual tools handy.

Friday, April 21, 2006

batcher .script set: MicroPE - The CD Forum

Windows XP Live CD Instructions through a forum - BartPE

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Vitamin Features » How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?

Good quick place to see a few principles of web design. Maybe it's a little too simple (I think they were going for having the cool acronym CRAP).

Works for Me: Social bookmarking: vote early, vote often - CNET reviews

There are more and more useful spaces on the Web these days. However, we can't rely on Google to target everything for us, especially since it's crawl rate is good but not great. However, if we want a better chance at finding useful information, it would be helpful if sites had readily apparent ratings/feedback that would help you find that resource. One of the best examples of this is called The Digg Effect, where tech savvy surfers post and rate URLs. This provides much more useful information for a searcher than the PageRank system that mostly depends on page/site hits and links from other sites (although the 2nd one probably correlates with quality, it's not bulletproof). Anyhow, if this was done for more kinds of sites, that would provide a good tool for people interested in other topics than technology (Digg does more than technology but that is it's strongest area).

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Fifty Ways to Take Notes » Solution Watch

Wow, this is a nice site as it full explores many possibilities.

Clipmarks review by PC Magazine

Hmmm. A little bit Del.icio.us, a little bit WayBackMachine.

Monday, April 17, 2006

F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Some research is presented here that shows eyetracking usability testing for different page layouts. It does seem to affect web design best practices a little.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

NetLingo.com Dictionary of Internet Terms: Online Definitions & Text Messaging

This site helps anyone trying to keep up with Web lingo.

Overcoming Procrastination by Steve Pavlina

Not that I procrastinate a lot (I don't have time to procrastinate), I think this is a good set of suggestions for those moments that happen to everyone.

Tips for Productivity and Happiness at Work

Interesting advice for getting work done more efficiently and productively.

AskMen.com - Changing people's perceptions

This isn't exactly an instructional technology, but people's perceptions will color their interaction in developing or using instructional materials developed by people.

GIMP 2.2.11 � Windows � VersionTracker

A lot of people are starting to use GIMP instead of Photoshop. A new version was just released.