You know, hey there again. Been a while. Just wanted to shoot out a note about my web browser of choice, Opera. You need to give this one a chance. I've been using it for the good part of 2006 now. It is pretty much a one stop shop for web browsing, email, contacts, notes, newsgroups, RSS feeds, and now Widgets in version 9. I think in the past Opera was not free. Well it is now! I tried to use Mozilla Firefox for a while before Opera. I liked it, but when I loaded Opera, well, I never looked back. (Firefox's Add-on "Abe Vigoda" utility was useful; is he still alive? Thought I heard something but I can't remember???) The only thing that I found that I need Internet Explorer for is to view my email at the office via the Microsoft Exchange Web access server. Other than that, I'm pretty much "Opera Boy"!
Download it and give it a shot. I think it's pretty sweet. Oh, and post me a comment and let me know about your Opera experience. 'til next time... (probably another 6 months).
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Thursday, February 23, 2006
FlickR
You know, I just updated my FlickR page with some more pictures from the 'ol archives. FlickR can be used to post pictures to the web so that family and friends can view your photos. You can either set each picture to be "Public", where anyone can view it, or "Private", where only you or a personally selected group can view it. You can also attach a tag (like keywords) to each picture so that it can be found in a search query. For instance, on my page I have a picture of Bodie Island Lighthouse located in North Carolina. I attached a tag called "lighthouse" to the picture and made the picture "Public". Now anyone who goes to FlickR and searches using the keyword "lighthouse" will find all pictures with that tag including my own. It's what is called social bookmarking and works similiar to the Del.icio.us web site (see my previous post about del.icio.us).
FlickR is owned and run by Yahoo. I feel more comfortable using web applications from the bigger known companies like Yahoo and Google just because they usually create good products and are safer and a bit more secure.
Super cool! Later dayz...
FlickR is owned and run by Yahoo. I feel more comfortable using web applications from the bigger known companies like Yahoo and Google just because they usually create good products and are safer and a bit more secure.
Super cool! Later dayz...
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Del.icio.us
You know, WOW! I've had a lot on my mind lately, work-related stuff, how to obtain a "Get Out of Debt" free card, etc., etc. Ok, here it is, what you all have been waiting for. My description of the web site Del.icio.us.
Del.icio.us is a free service which allows people to post their favorite bookmarks to the web so that you, or anyone, can access them anywhere, anytime. It is a new phenomenon sweeping the web called "Social Bookmarking". Here's how it works:
You bookmark a web site of interest; you attach some keywords to your bookmark that you might use in the future to search by to find the bookmark (these are called "Tags"); then you post it to your personal Del.icio.us page. You can elect to make your bookmarks private or public. So if you post a cool web site for lighthouses and make it "public", then Joe Schmo from Omaha can find your post and others by search by the keyword "lighthouse". But only if you've added that tag and attached it to the bookmark. I think it's a neat way for users to have control over searchable content. It's like producing your own Google search options for either yourself or others.
Try it out; let me know what you think. You might even have a different take on what del.icio.us is all about. And it's free. I like free stuff, don't you? You can find a link to my del.icio.us page to the right in the "Links" area.
Ok, until next time... Maybe I'll discuss FlickR in my next post. (see and/or click on my pictures located in the right frame.)
Del.icio.us is a free service which allows people to post their favorite bookmarks to the web so that you, or anyone, can access them anywhere, anytime. It is a new phenomenon sweeping the web called "Social Bookmarking". Here's how it works:
You bookmark a web site of interest; you attach some keywords to your bookmark that you might use in the future to search by to find the bookmark (these are called "Tags"); then you post it to your personal Del.icio.us page. You can elect to make your bookmarks private or public. So if you post a cool web site for lighthouses and make it "public", then Joe Schmo from Omaha can find your post and others by search by the keyword "lighthouse". But only if you've added that tag and attached it to the bookmark. I think it's a neat way for users to have control over searchable content. It's like producing your own Google search options for either yourself or others.
Try it out; let me know what you think. You might even have a different take on what del.icio.us is all about. And it's free. I like free stuff, don't you? You can find a link to my del.icio.us page to the right in the "Links" area.
Ok, until next time... Maybe I'll discuss FlickR in my next post. (see and/or click on my pictures located in the right frame.)
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Google Reader
You know, I found a neat little program last night called Google Reader. I believe it's still in Beta but isn't most of everything that Google offers still in Beta. But Google's beta offerings are still usually better than most other companies final programs.
Google Reader is a very nicely written and well laid out RSS aggregator. And what is an RSS aggregator you might ask? Well, you can load up all of your favorite news and weather web sites and have them be collected and sorted into one personal web page. The page is automatically updated every time you view it with the latest information collected from the sources that you tell the reader to go fetch. This is just one simple thing you can accomplish with RSS.
In future posts, I will be writing more about RSS and other related web applications. And so I don't forget, my next post will talk about an web program called del.icio.us. So see you then.
Google Reader is a very nicely written and well laid out RSS aggregator. And what is an RSS aggregator you might ask? Well, you can load up all of your favorite news and weather web sites and have them be collected and sorted into one personal web page. The page is automatically updated every time you view it with the latest information collected from the sources that you tell the reader to go fetch. This is just one simple thing you can accomplish with RSS.
In future posts, I will be writing more about RSS and other related web applications. And so I don't forget, my next post will talk about an web program called del.icio.us. So see you then.
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