Kiko is another online calendar service. It’s filled with lots of lovely little AJAXy tricks and generally looks lovely. One of the cool features include having a text box which allows you to quickly add appointments using a human readable syntax,…

I have just been playing with Bloglines this morning – it has been a while since I looked at it, as I have been doing all on online RSSing in Newsgator of late, because the sync with FeedDemon is so…

The Performancing blog is a useful resource for bloggers, often with some good advice. This selection of tips includes some interesting stuff. Here’s the first 5 as a taster: Claim your blog at services like Technorati. Fill in all keywords…

YouOS, an online “operating system” looks really interesting. You register, then load it up in your browser. It’s best to maximise the browser window as much as you can. I’m at work, so am stuck with IE. They describe the system…

Interesting discussion on Palimpsest about Web 2.0 services, ownership, and standards.

IRows is an online spreadsheet, a competitor with NumSum, in other words. One of the criticisms I have always had with NumSum is that it is just so damn ugly. Not something that IRows can be accused of, which is…

I just activated the Akismet anti-blog comment spam plug-in. Let’s see how well it works – I am not being flooded with spam right at the moment because this blog is so new. We’ll see how it goes. I am pretty…

Lorelle on WordPress is a great blog for people who use the universe’s greatest blogging app. Her last two posts are both pretty interesting and I’m going to investigate them both a bit further: Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin Update…

K2 seems like a really interesting theme for WordPress. It is still in beta at the moment, but I have installed on World of Dave just to see how it works and looks. I actually really like the feel of…

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about the applications I use on a regular basis. This was obviously on the Windows laptop I am using right now. This is going to change in a major way pretty soon, when I…

So, what made me want to change things round? Well, there have been, or are going to be, several changes to the way I am doing things generally, IT-wise. One thing is that I really wanted to move away from…

Right, so I have put in place the new blogs. The tech blog, which is what most people will be interested in, is now at and the feed is The ‘personal’ blog is at /worldofdave and the feed…

Here’s the first post, taking over from where davebriggs.net left off. Well, some of it. This is where I am going to be doing all of the tech stuff I used to write about – in other words, most of…