PortableApps.com: Taking Your Apps on The Road
Monday 23, 2007

PortableApps.com: Taking Your Apps on The Road

A while back I read about being able to install Firefox on a USB drive and being able to plug it into any computer and just use Firefox right of the key fob. Better yet, no personal information; passwords, history, cookies, etc. would be left on the computer… it’s all on the USB drive. I [...]

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Friday 20, 2007

Digg API, Flash Development Kit, and Contest Launched!

Posted just two hours ago, Digg has announced the long anticipated Digg API and thrown in a Flash Development Kit and contest on top of it. I took a quick glance at the API and it is apparent that they have been working on this for sometime. Digg Tools has always used the API, but [...]

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Thursday 19, 2007

Think Twice Before You Sell Out

It’s been all over the blogosphere lately Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert have resigned from Google where they have been employees since May of 2005 when their company Dodgeball was acquired. An official quote sheds some light to their reasoning behind the departure.
It’s no real secret that Google wasn’t supporting dodgeball the way we expected. [...]

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Wednesday 18, 2007

Download of the Day: Synergy

Synergy is an open source, cross platform, solution for those geeks that have too may computers and monitors on their desk. Synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard across two or more computers, much like a KVM switch, but completely with software. You setup a server, or main computer, and your other computers [...]

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Tuesday 17, 2007

AJAX and the Endless Scrolling Feature of Pages

AJAX has brought a lot to us in the department of usability, and in turn people have created some really slick features in web services. One I have noticed becoming more popular lately is the endless scrolling of pages and lists, as appose to using next and back buttons to get more results. DZone just [...]

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