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I’ve written before about how National Geographic has a huge collection of inspiring images available for download from its photography contests. However, trawling through the web site to download the right images can take a while, which is where NatGeo Wallpaper Downloader can come in handy. Read More »

5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: 8 Significant Developments in Social Media You Should Watch Aliza’s second “Social Superstar” column looks at some developments in the social space that you should pay attention … Read More »

 
 

5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Google Buzz Tips and Tricks Doriano shares his favorite ways to get the most out of Google’s new foray into the social networking space, Buzz. 10 … Read More »

5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Feb. 8 is Clean Out Your Computer Day Monday was Clean Out Your Computer Day — but if you missed it, you could still follow Thursday’s tips. Minute … Read More »

Have You Thanked Your Favorite Bloggers Today?

Today I sent a note to a popular blogger; at the end of the message I thanked him for his passion and enthusiasm. After sending the message, I wondered if my note would be read, let alone matter to him, but that kind of thing does … Read More »

LinkedIn Offers Users Increased Control Over Profiles

As of today, according to the LinkedIn Blog, users of the popular career-oriented social network can rearrange the order in which elements appear in a member’s profile — the page on the site that displays information about one’s background. Read More »

5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: 10 More Must-have Google Chrome Extensions Paisano shares his favorite extensions for Google’s increasingly popular browser. Creating a Whole New Business on the Web While Untemplater is full of … Read More »

Twitt Updated, Now Supports Multiple Accounts

Dan Deming-Henes has released version 1.1 of Twitt, adding a host of useful features to his his lightweight Mac Twitter client, which Darrell reviewed back in November. Perhaps most importantly, and addressing one of Darrell’s complaints about version 1.0, is that it now supports multiple Twitter accounts. This new version also … Read More »

Who Owns Your Data?

Here on WWD, we’ve recently been discussing privacy in social media, but the issues of privacy, security and data ownership actually extend much further, affecting everything we do on the Internet. As our computing increasingly moves to the web from the desktop, more of our personal … Read More »

Dear Web App Providers: My Wish List

Om and the team over at GigaOM recently shared “7 Things We Hope Will Come True in 2010.” While that list of things are all well and good for our industry as a whole, I’ve identified a list of … Read More »

Greener Electronics Guide Update

The Greenpeace “Guide to Greener Electronics” that I wrote about last week has just been updated and the 14th Edition is now available. What’s changed? Apple has improved its ranking, thanks mainly to removing toxic chemicals from its products. Sony also climbed the rankings, … Read More »

Are Your Colleagues Snowed in? Send Them Our e-Book

It’s not just swathes of the U.S that are suffering with some extremely cold weather at the moment. The UK and parts of Europe are also shivering through a cold snap, which has brought Siberian conditions and plenty of snow with it, making … Read More »

More Must Reads

On behalf of all the team here at WebWorkerDaily, I’d like to wish those of you who celebrate it a very merry Christmas. And if today isn’t your holiday, I hope that you are relaxing and enjoying time with friends and family — even … Read More »

The remote access tools provider RDM+ is having a sale, with its iPhone/iPod touch app available for $1.99. This is a significant reduction from the normal $20 price, for a tool that lets you control remote computers from your mobile device. Read More »

Our subscription research service GigaOM Pro has just published its list of NewNet winners and losers for 2009. I contributed two selections to the list of winners: Twitter and Foursquare. Twitter has had an outstanding year, so including it in the list was a … Read More »

gwabbit is a handy application that automatically identifies and parses contact information from your emails to help ease the process of creating new entries in your contact list. I’ve written about the Outlook version … Read More »

Anagram, a clever Windows app that can automatically parse text snippets for contacts, leads, appointments and tasks and capture them into your organizer or CRM software, has had its name changed to Copy2Contact. I liked the product very much when I reviewed … Read More »

TripIt — the handy service that we’ve written about previously that organizes your travel itinerary by collating confirmation emails that you forward to it — has added Facebook Connect support. Facebook support was TripIt’s most-requested feature, and enables you to publish … Read More »

I’m a little partial to digital tools that can be used to create diagrams and images that look hand drawn — Balsamiq Mockups is a wonderful example. I’ve often thought it’d be great to have a font made from my own handwriting, enabling me to … Read More »

Growl notifications, alert add-ons for Firefox and for the desktop, and other tools can all help you keep on top of goings-on in your digital world by displaying visual cues whenever new activity appears on your social networks, email, or other web apps. A Read More »

Coworking spaces are really popping up all over. After my post earlier this week about a new venture in the Twin Cities, I’ve been contacted about several interesting spaces that have either recently opened or are due to open soon: Lightbulb Coworking, Charlotte, N.C. Charlotte’s … Read More »

It seems like coworking spaces are popping up all over at the moment. I’ve just spotted this post from Don Ball announcing an interesting coworking venture/small business incubator/meeting space in downtown St. Paul, Minn. — and it could be open as soon as January. … Read More »

24ways, an advent calendar for web designers and developers, returns today for its fifth year. Every day until Dec. 24, a new article — many of them penned by web luminaries such as Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer and Peter-Paul Koch — will … Read More »

Yesterday, while many WebWorkerDaily readers were taking a well-deserved day off and chowing down on Thanksgiving turkey, the team at Mozilla was busy pushing out beta 4 of Firefox 3.6. This new update includes over 140 bug fixes, but perhaps most importantly (to me, … Read More »

It’s been an exciting and interesting year to be a web worker. We’ve come to rely more on services like Twitter, there has been huge buzz about Google Wave, and there are … Read More »

A new study suggests that almost half (45 percent) of the workers at small- and medium-sized businesses spend most (75 percent) of their time out of their offices. In fact, only 15 percent of the businesses surveyed reported that all of their employees work … Read More »

Last week, Mozilla celebrated Firefox’s fifth birthday. While it may seem hard to believe that it’s really been that long since Firefox first burst onto the browser scene, it’s equally hard to understate just how important it has been for the … Read More »

Adobe has released new betas of AIR 2 and Flash 10.1, James over at jkOnTheRun reports. Both products now support multitouch, but most interesting for me in this news is that AIR 2 promises to be less memory-hungry than the previous version. I’ve shied away … Read More »

Two small pieces of recent Google news were just announced that merit a mention, since both have ramifications for web workers. First, Google has put a date on a Mac beta build of Chrome, meaning there’s finally an end in sight to one of the company’s … Read More »

The folks at Ribbit Mobile are offering 100 invitations to WebWorkerDaily readers for the beta of their new communication service. Just sign up on the reservations page, and enter the invite code “wwd09″ in the appropriate box. Ribbit Mobile has more features than … Read More »

If you’re concerned that Google is starting to know a bit too much about you, you might be interested to find out that Google has released Google Dashboard, a window onto the data that Google stores about your accounts. All you need to do is … Read More »

Adobe has launched a new version of its web conferencing app, Connect Pro, that adds the ability to integrate existing telephony/VoIP solutions. (Adobe calls this “Universal Voice.“) This feature should make Connect Pro more attractive to organizations with existing telephony packages in place, as … Read More »

Over on our sister blog jkOnTheRun, James has published a great list of tips on how to be a productive home worker. They include: Set up a comfortable home office Make a separate work zone Music can play a big role Software tools are key Keep a real work schedule Get … Read More »

If you find yourself having to resize images often and use Windows, you might like to check out Dropresize, a handy free system tray application. It runs in the background and monitors a folder you specify on your hard drive — any images that are … Read More »

In an interesting follow-up to Dawn’s post earlier this week, “Is Twitter Replacing the RSS Reader?” — which generated some fairly heated discussion in the comments — Robert Scoble has posted “Why I don’t use Google Reader anymore” in which he describes why he no … Read More »

TinyGrab is a simple, lightweight app that makes sharing screenshots online both easy and fast. I tried the Mac version, but it’s also available for Windows and works in a similar fashion. To get started with TinyGrab, simply register on the site (by entering your name … Read More »

If you run a small business or startup and you’re in or around Portland, Ore., you might like to check out Finance for Startups 101, a free event being held at Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE PDX) on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 6 p.m. The … Read More »

Some big news yesterday was the announcement of the Bing/Twitter/Facebook deals that will see the three services sharing info and working together in all kinds of interesting ways. One of those ways has now gone live, and it’s Microsoft’s Bing Twitter search. … Read More »

I’m planning on starting a new weekly reader profile here on WWD, looking at the different things our readers do, how you work, the gear and software you use, and your favorite hints and tips. If you’d like to be profiled on the site, please get … Read More »

With the official release of Windows 7 on deck for later this week, Microsoft Press has released a free, 332-page downloadable e-book, “Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine.” The book — which reuses material from the Windows … Read More »

Lifestreambackup, a service that Thursday reviewed back in August, is changing its name to Backupify. As the app now supports backup of several online services (Basecamp, Google Docs, Zoho Writer) that don’t really count as lifestreaming apps, the name was no longer appropriate (and … Read More »

Like many of us, I spend a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. In Clearing The Cache, I pull out some of my favorites and share them with you here. It seems like … Read More »

Insync is a new, easy-to-use file syncing service that’s billed as a “Dropbox for companies” that lets you sync files between computers and share them with other people in your company. It has entered a private, invite-only beta testing stage, but if you’d like to … Read More »

If you rely on Google Docs for collaboration with colleagues, the new shared folders feature, announced by Google yesterday, should make life a lot easier for you. It enables you to share collections of documents with co-workers — documentation for an entire project, for example … Read More »

If you’re into pen-and-paper productivity, Daryl Furuyama over at WhiteHatBlackBox has produced this neat numbered procedure list for recording recurring tasks. Daryl uses the example of cleaning the bathroom, but you could use it to record any work-related task, too, like your weekly backup … Read More »

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