My trial of Blog Writer didn't last long. The image integration turned out to be a pain, you need to specify an FTP site that will host the images. I was expecting something similar to Hello [which in effect provides you with the image hosting] with added desktop publishing features.
The product linking functionality has the feel of a feature which is, or could be, used to provide click thru revenue to the software provider.
I've uninstalled the product.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Only in America - Part 2
A man in Utah is auctioning his middle name on eBay. So far, bidding indicates that this is not going to be as popular a sale as the lady who sold her full name (see Only in America - Part 1).
"Only in America" could turn out to be a long running series.
"Only in America" could turn out to be a long running series.
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Is Marc Orchant the busiest guy on the planet?
Marc Orchant writes one of my very favourite blogs over at The Office Weblog. He also writes a blog called Marc's Outlook on Productivity (Cool tools and tips to get more done with Office!) as part of the Office Zealot team. And he was recently announced as the editor of the forthcoming book on blogging by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, which you can read about at the Red Couch blog.
I think what I most enjoy about Marc is that he is the A list blogger who most closely mirrors my interests. He's obviously into Getting Things Done and Mindjet's MindManager in a big way, which are two of my obsessions. As far as I can tell, he's into Gmail and Google's Desktop Search. And he's also into all the little tricks, extensions and hacks that make the life of a would be computer geek that little bit easier.
Today I picked up from him that Gmail are upping the storage limit on accounts from 1GB to 2GB for everyone (with plans to grow storage levels beyond that) AND that rich text formatting is available when you compose your Gmail. Google are definitely setting the pace in so many areas at the moment.
And I also discovered from a Google search on Marc's name that he created the Invisible PC project which aims to keep us up to date on the best ideas, practices, and free tools to help make your PC invisible to the bad guys and immune to the viruses, worms, and other vermin crawling over the Net. Which is very handy, as I've been hit with an annoying adware problem in the last 48 hours. I already use a combination of Ad-aware, PestPatrol and Spybot - Search & Destroy to protect myself from this kind of thing and based on Marc's advice I'm going to add Spyware Blaster to the mix.
The tools page on the Invisible PC site also pointed me towards the Gibson Resarch Corporation who appear to have lot of tools designed to improve pc security. I'm gonna go check it out now.
I think what I most enjoy about Marc is that he is the A list blogger who most closely mirrors my interests. He's obviously into Getting Things Done and Mindjet's MindManager in a big way, which are two of my obsessions. As far as I can tell, he's into Gmail and Google's Desktop Search. And he's also into all the little tricks, extensions and hacks that make the life of a would be computer geek that little bit easier.
Today I picked up from him that Gmail are upping the storage limit on accounts from 1GB to 2GB for everyone (with plans to grow storage levels beyond that) AND that rich text formatting is available when you compose your Gmail. Google are definitely setting the pace in so many areas at the moment.
And I also discovered from a Google search on Marc's name that he created the Invisible PC project which aims to keep us up to date on the best ideas, practices, and free tools to help make your PC invisible to the bad guys and immune to the viruses, worms, and other vermin crawling over the Net. Which is very handy, as I've been hit with an annoying adware problem in the last 48 hours. I already use a combination of Ad-aware, PestPatrol and Spybot - Search & Destroy to protect myself from this kind of thing and based on Marc's advice I'm going to add Spyware Blaster to the mix.
The tools page on the Invisible PC site also pointed me towards the Gibson Resarch Corporation who appear to have lot of tools designed to improve pc security. I'm gonna go check it out now.
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