Category: Tools
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Three things that are broken on the mobile web
In the last few weeks I’ve been using the supercool Nokia 6600 to fumble my way into moblogging, test some new mobile apps that I’m working on, play games, send SMSes, take dorky pictures and (gasp) even make regular calls. In the midst of all of this frantic telephone activity, I thought it might be…
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Avast! Evil Comment Spam
Comment spam is the bane of old blogs. I had a couple of blogs that I was running as my school journals which were getting spammed a few times every week with lurid offers of bestiality, incest and pen1s enlargement. As much as I appreciated all the attention my blogs were getting, something had to…
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Total Eclipse of my Code
Okay, this is just going to show all my friends and the 1.5 people that read this blog just how truly geeky I have become. Yes, this is an ode to my tool of the moment – Eclipse – the ultimate open source Java development program. And if you add in the handy dandy J2ME…
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Zempt rules on PC
Okay, after a few days of valiantly trying to like Ecto on PC, I had to switch back to Zempt. Especially now that since I’ve installed Rob Zeller’s handy iTunes plugin, Zempt automagically inserts whichever tune is tickling my brain right now. Like so Currently bobbing my head to: Mairead from Pawn Shoppe Heart by…
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How to make friends and confluence people
During my third semester at school in Clay Shirky’s Social Software class – my group worked on a lightweight multimedia groupware collaboration tool called Catayst which was a fun project but never ended up getting finished. Since then, I’ve been running across many of these tools – such as Ray Ozzie’s Groove but I just…