http://stormgrass.com/tech The Excitement of Tech Stuff Tue, 06 May 2008 11:55:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google Reader, by all accounts the most superior feed-reader on the web, has just become even more useful. What's the addition that's making me all excited? It is, of course, notes! Now, this may not sound like a big deal, but in a little way, it is! See, Google Reader not only ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/05/06/google-reader-adds-notes/ As time goes by, my titles become more and more descriptive. By reading only the headline, you actually already know the gist of it, so you might as well move on. Unless of course you don't have a clue what box.net is, what GMail does and what the hell a 3rd ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/04/29/boxnet-adds-gmail-as-3rd-party-app/ And I've upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. It was actually a lot less painful than my latest upgrade, mainly because I had the foresight to actually read up on possible conflicts (something I of course couldn't have done the other times I upgraded and totally borked my system). Anyway, K2 behaves nicely ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/04/15/wordpress-upgraded/ Hulu, the much hated then much hyped, now much, well, online, video website has officially launched. But, and this holds true for everyone residing outside the US, they won't actually show me any clips. Which renders it totally useless and an utter failure in my book. Over at Mashable, Stan Schroeder ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/03/12/hulu-still-useless/ Update: Now that socialthing! is in official beta, they've issued users with a bunch of invites. If you're interested, leave a comment. Lifestreaming, a new buzzword I'm most comfortable with, has had its iron grip on me for a few weeks now. I'm constantly checking out new services, with one goal ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/03/06/socialthing-in-which-my-quest-for-the-perfect-lifestreaming-service-continues/ Today I received one of the coveted invites to Jaiku*, the micro-blogging service that's been likened to Twitter a lot (even though it has been around longer). While Jaiku used to be open for registrations, it closed them down when they were bought by Google. Now, what is it that differentiates ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/03/05/jaiku-not-twitter-obviously/ What's a feed reader? Well, it's a piece of software that lets me read RSS feeds. So what's a good RSS feedreader? One that at least lets me read the feeds I want to read. What's a bad feed reader? Well, a feed reader that won't let me read my ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/02/28/how-not-to-do-stuff/ Picnik, which I so elegantly discussed when it launched, today announced that they had opened up all the functions previously only available for paying members of the service. Here's the TechCrunch post on it. Well, I think that's a fantastic move. With other webbased photo editing services cropping up like mushrooms ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/02/28/picnik-still-better/ That's what I was wondering when I received an invite to the preview version of the Evernote Webservice today. And as a matter of fact, it does: Evernote, previously known only as a very popular notetaking application, has ventured forth and is planning on conquering the web as well. Complementing that ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/02/27/will-evernote-read-my-handwriting/ In my everlasting quest to find the ultimate lifestreaming service to combine the data from all the shit I use online, I today stumbled upon SecondBrain.com ("stumble upon" meaning "read on TechCrunch", really). Unlike other services like FriendFeed, Tumblr, Profilactic, and a myriad of others, SecondBrain actually doesn't just want ... http://stormgrass.com/tech/2008/02/26/secondbraincom-for-when-one-just-isnt-enough/