The most annoying thing about new releases of WordPress is tracking down the new features. A release notes page off the download page would be nice, but I had to find 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6 instead.
The PressThis bookmarklet is back, with a lot of new functions. All three of our weblogs upgraded without any problems.
I have been using mind maps for over twenty years. Here is a Text 2 Mind Map – An online text to mind map converter. No sign-in required.
July 11, 2008 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
If your computer doesn’t generate enough white noise to block out annoying sounds, use SimplyNoise.com to add a little white noise to your environment.
June 24, 2008 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
Dipity allows you to construct timelines about almost anything. It will also allow you to import images from Flickr, posts from your blog, and items from other online tools so that you can get a “stream” of your online activity. This is a snapshot of mine after I played around with it for a while.
About a month ago, I moved the external drive I use to back up my machine to Jack’s computer. I was planning on backing up the data on my PC to his PC using an automatic job. Unfortunately, I had not yet gotten around to it when the disk on my PC suffered a catastrophic failure. The good news was that I had another hard-drive suitable for rebuilding the system. The bad news is I lost about a month’s worth of data. None of it was priceless, but I still felt very stupid. The first thing I did when I had a functioning system was order another external USB drive. (Once you have started using these, it is hard to go back to a more cumbersome system.) This drive is now attached to Jack’s PC with a full backup, and my PC is backed up to my external drive.
Have you implemented a backup plan for your PC?
Montage-a-google creates an image montage from a google keyword. You can click on the individual images to see the larger image from which it was taken. I found some neat images using the keyword “dragon.”
I frequently find a long article while browsing the web for something else that interests me, but I just don’t have the time to read at that moment. Instapaper was designed for this problem. One nice feature is that you don’t even have to sign up to use it: it can keep track of your list of articles based on cookies in your browser. If you plan to use it from more than one browser, it is quick and easy to sign up for an userid. The developer of the site said he was motivated because he wants to encourage people to write longer articles for the web.
The Flash application keybr.com just informed me that I type 57 words a minute. Since the words are nonsense words that don’t make grammatical sense, I assume that means I would type faster if the sample was in English.
Google celebrates the invention of the laser.
Google has a special Mother’s Day Logo.
