Amazing Keyboards – Richard Nagy builds amazing “steampunk” style custom keyboards, and if you have a spare $800 or $1000 laying around, he’ll build one for you too. The price seems exorbitant at first, but once you see these creations… Read More »
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One for the Paper Lovers – The Xambox is a new device from Xamance, a French company. Their site is in French, but there’s an English promotional video up on YouTube. The device is reminiscent of the Fujitsu ScanSnap,… Read More »
Out-Googling Google – ManagedQ isn’t really a new search engine, since it uses Google’s results. But what it does with those results is pretty stunning. Put in a search term, and you get back a page of site thumbnails (large… Read More »
Flickr for Mac Users – Photonic is a new third-party client for Flickr that runs in Mac OS X. Instead of accessing Flickr through the web, you get a dedicated browser application on your desktop. You can see your own… Read More »
A Better Cashboard – Estimating, time tracking, and invoicing application Cashboard has added some new features since the last time we looked at them. Changes in the last six months or so include fully customizable templates for estimates and invoices, better editing facilities, and… Read More »
Send the Bureaucrats Home – As we’ve pointed out before, the federal government is home to some of the most ambitious telework programs around. Now comes the news that Lurita Doan, current administrator of the General Services Administration (the folks in charge of running… Read More »
A Different View of Search – Google isn’t quite standing still on search, though they’re certainly not rolling out user interface revolutions at a fast pace. Still, a visit to the Google Labs Experimental Search page gives you a few… Read More »
Huddle ups the Free Ante – We’ve looked at Huddle, an online team-management tool in the same general arena as SharePoint or Basecamp, before. But in connection with this week’s DEMO conference, they made a couple of announcements that… Read More »
The Limits of Privacy – Photo-sharing site SmugMug has a problem. Whether it’s a PR problem or a privacy problem, I’ll leave you to decide. The basic facts, as brought out by Philipp Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped, are… Read More »
Quick Web Sites – There are lots of online tools to help you put together a web site quickly. The latest I’ve run across is Tank, which does indeed seem to streamline the process nicely. After an instant signup process… Read More »
Travel with a Buddy – Personal travel assistant site Tripit (which we’ve written about before) is taking a step beyond just helping you organize all the emails that make up a travel itinerary. Now they want to help… Read More »
A New View of Twitter – Gridjit is a data visualization tool for Twitter. Unlike most of the Twitter clients out there, which focus on presenting the same chronological stream of tweets as the web site and letting you post… Read More »
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