Category: 'Utilities'
Pizza in Europe?
Posted on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Lately there has been some news surrounding Google Maps. As a result I’m obliged to sum things up. ThinkLemon style, surely. First, it was called Google Maps (beta), then Local, and now Maps again. Probably because everyone was calling it Maps anyhow. The Google Blog explains more. Second, Maps has expanded to continental Europe. Finally [...]
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Photoshop + Fireworks: Where to from here?
Posted on Sunday, March 5th, 2006
John Nack on Adobe: Photoshop + Fireworks: Where to from here?: Now that Adobe and Macromedia have come together, we’re busily planning our next moves, and it would be great to get your input. If you’re a webdesigner/-developer this is an interesting read. Lots of thought for food here. (BTW, John Nack is the Senior [...]
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Extend Firefox Contest Winners
Posted on Sunday, March 5th, 2006
The grand prize winners of the Extend Firefox competition are in. One of them is the one I use on a daily basis. In fact it’s the biggest reason why I’m using Firefox as my main browser. Props to Chris! But IMHO the Web Developer toolbar is only usefull for us web developers (and people [...]
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Ask.com Maps & Directions
Posted on Sunday, March 5th, 2006
The latest addition to the online mapping frenzy comes from none other than ask.com (that search engine that fired its card-bored butler remember?). At map.ask.com you can find maps and directions. A first glance may remind you of that other mapping solution. But … this one is aware of roads in the rest of the [...]
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Google Page Creator (Beta of course)
Posted on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Normally I wouldn’t blog about yet another new Google product release. Now would I? Hey, I’m not the Googleblog you know. But this time they’ve released a product that lets my mother create webpages in no-time, although I doubt if anyone’s waiting for another bridge-site. (Sorry mom. ) So what is it? It’s an easy-to-use [...]
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PocketMod, Hipster PDA or Ductster PDA
Posted on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
The PDA* market is becoming quite competitive it seems. Once a small niche, it looks to be ready for main-stream. There have been no mergers, buy-outs or busts … yet. But hey, it’s still an emerging market. Here’s the short-list: PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer: Nice pocket-sized, folding design, but takes a while to [...]
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Finalists for the Extend Firefox Contest announced
Posted on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Extend Firefox Contest Finalists :: Mozilla Update: We are happy to announce the finalists in our Extend Firefox Contest, a contest held to award the best and brightest extension developers in the Firefox community. The contest asked entrants to create Firefox Extensions that are innovative, useful, and integrate with today’s Web services. Over 200 Extensions [...]
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MediaWiki & Google Sitemaps update
Posted on Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Just to let you know. I’ve done an update on the MediaWiki:Google Sitemaps script. So if you’re running a MediaWiki installation take a look at the script.
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RE: Adobe looking for a Gecko expert
Posted on Friday, January 20th, 2006
That is what the below job offering says. But I’m not quite sure what it is they’re building. Remember the Adobe & Macromedia merger? So it’s quite obvious that the the product lines of both will be merged. Meaning Flash and PDF …
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WordPress 2.0 Cache Is Broken!
Posted on Sunday, January 15th, 2006
As of version 2.0 of WordPress you’ll get a caching feature, which means it’ll ‘remember’ the most frequent accessed static information from your blog. This way it’s supposed to not bother the database but make a ‘fast trip’ to the server to fetch these pieces of info. In the end this should make your weblog [...]
Posted in General, Internet, Intranet, ThinkLemon, Utilities, WebDev | 12 Comments »