From the category archives:

Web Apps

A Love Triangle: NetNewsWire and Google Reader

March 3, 2009

I’m stuck in a love triangle with two popular RSS readers, and I just can’t figure it out. I love them both but for very different reasons (and at very different times).

On the desktop, I prefer NetNewsWire for a variety of reasons:

Keyboard shortcuts for blog posting, Delicious posting, Twitter posting, etc. Easier keyboard navigation Sorting by date [...]

Read the full article →

Can you get away with cutting your cable cord?

February 19, 2009

I’m a big fan of Hulu, love my AppleTV and often rent from the iTunes store. I’ve got a Netflix account whose Watch Instantly queue is filled with old movies and television shows (currently working my way through Quantum Leap). And, yes, I run Boxee on my MacBook, MacBook Pro and on my AppleTV.

Over the [...]

Read the full article →

PIM Review: Evernote

February 2, 2009

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts that compares Journler, Together and Evernote in a PIM faceoff for Macs. The first post can be found here.

Evernote is one of the few cross-platform, web-based apps that I both use and enjoy. Add to it an iPhone app that is nearly as powerful as [...]

Read the full article →

Goodbye BusySync. Hello… MobileMe?

January 18, 2009

Political consulting being my day job, I find myself from time to time needing to set up a “server system” for a campaign.

Needs are basic: Email, file storage and sharing and calendaring. Since spending money on a business-level system is not usually an option, I take advantage of Google Apps for Your Domain.

It works better [...]

Read the full article →

iWork 09 gets me excited.. So what?

January 7, 2009

For me, the upgrades for iWork 09 are where the money’s at.

I love Numbers as an alternative to Excel, and I’m growing fonder and fonder of Pages. Both get updates that could prove useful.

Pages

Pages finally gets mail-merge, which is a God-send in my work. Having full-screen mode will be nice as well. And while I [...]

Read the full article →

Hitting the high notes of Apple’s Keynote

January 7, 2009

So some think this year’s Macworld keynote was lack-luster, that Apple disappointed with their announcements and that iWork 09 is nothing to get excited about.

Don’t count me in that group.

The releases in this keynote — save the announcement about updating the 17″ MacBook Pro — were aimed at everyday consumer users. And even power-users or [...]

Read the full article →

Google adds Gears beta for Safari

August 28, 2008

No sooner do I post about Google Apps and mention the shortfall of not having Gears for Safari than does Google announces they are introducing Gears for Safari.

I have no real intention of testing this for a few reasons, but the main two are:

I don’t have a real need with my current workflow configuration. Everything I’ve [...]

Read the full article →

Google Apps Part 3: Making my online and offline workflows flow

August 26, 2008

Note: This is the final part of a three-part series on Google Apps, its advantages and how it fits into my workflow.

Like I said in Part 2 of this series:

Not everyone’s workflow is the same, and thus not everyone will use Google Apps the same. As I said, it has its limitations, and [...]

Read the full article →

Google Apps Part 2: Reasons I like and dislike Google Apps

August 26, 2008

Note: This is the second part of a three-part series on Google Apps, its advantages and how it fits into my workflow.

I discussed in this post what Google Apps includes and why I chose to use it. Google Apps provides a lot of advantages and a few disadvantages. First, let’s take a look at the [...]

Read the full article →

Google Apps Part 1: What is Google Apps and why I chose it

August 26, 2008

Note: This is the first of a three-part series on Google Apps, its advantages and how it fits into my workflow.

I was not an early adopter to Gmail or Google Docs. My reasons were not from fear of “big brother”, though those are valid concerns.

My reasons were much simpler:

I had an email address [...]

Read the full article →