Yesterday, the founder of popular screen-sharing app Mikogo shared with the world that he was threatened to be sued by the city of Mannheim if he does not stop using his twitter name, which is http://twitter.com/mannheim. His name is Mark Zondler, but he and the company is based in Mannheim. Does any of you think [...]
Simple yet powerful task management with Todoist
Over the past years I’ve been using task managers on and off, but one I always come back to is Todoist. While there are certainly more powerful options out there (Remember The Milk), Todoist, to me, is the perfect balance between power and simplicity. If you take a look, you can’t argue that it has [...]
Do more with your WordPress using the function reference
If you’ve been developing themes, or taking a go at modifying your own, chances are you’ve run into the WordPress Template Tags page. This part of the WordPress Codex lists numerous functions you can use to customize your themes quickly and easily, even if you’re just stepping into the wonderful world of modifying your blog, [...]
Read The New York Times with Adobe Air
In my limited experience with newspapers, I got the sense that they are not the ones leading the technological revolution. Today I found out that The New York Times has just released an Adobe Air application called The New York Times Reader, for reading their famous newspaper on your desktop. Since “real life”, non-tech companies [...]
Evernote available for BlackBerry
Evernote used to be a quite little commercial app which a few people knew about. It wasn’t bad, but then someone thought that there was much more potential in a market dominated mostly by OneNote. So they went free and since then it has been booming for Evernote, their newest release will let you use [...]
Create your own file extension icons
I absolutely love all kinds of icons, and not long ago I found a very quick way to make my own simple Adobe-Suite-like icons. All you need is Adobe Air, and an app called Air Icon Generator. The app is from the same people who gave us Bookmarked Generator, and works with the same style, [...]
Ubiquity to be built into Firefox
If you’re into browsers, browser tech and mashups, chances are you know what Uniquity is. In a nutshell it’s a mashup service which lets you navigate and manipulate the web in more natural ways. It’s quite hard to describe if you haven’t seen it, think of the awesome bar in Firefox and multiply it by [...]
Self-publish for free with Lulu
If you think you’ve got what it takes, why not write a book? Oh yeah, it’s takes a load of time, a huge load of marketing effort, and even more money to get enough published to start selling. It’s also risky, since you could be throwing money out the window if people don’t buy your [...]
Inline Google Search in Gmail
It seems like I’m the resident Google Labs reporter here at gHacks, but truth be told, they have been rolling out some cool features! Their latest is the ability to search Google inline from Gmail. Enabling the feature ads a Google search bar to the left sidebar in the Gmail interface. If you search from [...]