Extending FireFox

Have finally got round to installing the Performancing extension to FireFox, and it works a treat! Here’s a snapshot of me using it to write this post. It even drags in your categories and previous entries for you! I did at first find it a little irritating that the editor appears on every tab in … Keep reading

MyHeritage.com

My Heritage is currently in beta – it’s going to be some sort of genealogy website or something – but it does have this face recognition thing on it, where you upload a photo of your face, and it tells you which celebrity you look like. Great! Sadly, the only photos of me I had … Keep reading

Living without the Desktop

Here is an article I have written and submitted to the now active-again Living Without Microsoft website, run by John Naughton and Quentin Stafford-Fraser. You would have thought that working without desktop applications would be pretty tricky. But there are now a growing number of online tools which can help you get things done online … Keep reading

PAD

The Palimpsest Authors Directory is up and running, and the slog is now to get some content in there. Most of it is being cut and pasted from Wikipedia, which is released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. This means that we can copy the material, and amend it, as long as we credit the … Keep reading

Writely recognition

Wasn’t aware of this, but when browsing through the Writely blog, I found this snippet of a press release: Since its beta launch in August 2005, Writely has enjoyed enthusiastic adoption from users all over the world including businesses, bloggers, editors, students, teachers, poets and playwrights. … Case#3: NaNoWriMo Collective Novel Creation By midnight on … Keep reading