LGNewMedia 2.0

I’ve been redesigning the layout for this blog, using a cool new theme by Andreas Viklund. I like the fact that the whole width of the screen is used, and having two sidebars means that I can pack in some more useful widgets. Still no ads, though, yet! I’ll be writing about some of the … Keep reading

Google Gears

Google’s been doing plenty of work, and buying, to create an office suite which runs online. Those who see it as a potential Microsoft killer are always challenged on the fact that the online tools are great while you have a live web connection, but are not so cool when you are stuck somewhere without … Keep reading

Demofuse and Screencast-o-Matic

Two fairly similar services here, brought to my attention by the ever reliable TechCrunch. Demofuse allows you to create ‘tours’ of your websites, to demonstrate functionality, say. It looks very useful indeed, and will be something I will be using for some of the services I’ve put together. Screencast-o-Matic is a service that lets you … Keep reading

Mahalo

Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo, a human edited search engine, based on the MediaWiki platform used by, amongst others, Wikipedia. It’s funny, I remembered immediately the blog post Jason wrote about buying the Mahalo domain and not knowing what to do with it back in November last year. Here’s how the FAQ page explains the … Keep reading