Tag Archives: Tools

Blog from your cellphone – The easy way

This post is for my family. They claim they are too busy to blog, but the real reason is that they do not like to type. So…….
I found this cool site a few days ago that will help you guys skip right past blogging and go straight to podcasting. Don’t worry about what that means. [...]

Software I use and why – Online Applications

This should be the last post in the series on the tools that I use. It took a little longer to write than some of the others because I prefer to use online applications rather than desktop ones whenever possible which made this list quite long. That way I can work with familiar tools on [...]

Software I use and why – WordPress

I guess it is pretty obvious what my choice for blogging platform is. WordPress is actually quite amazing. I have used a lot of open-source software for the web, and this is in a class of it’s own. It has become such a part of daily life I almost forgot to list it as a [...]

Software I use and why – Desktop Applications

Most of the applications I use now are online. I will have to put them in a later post when I have a little more time. I do use a few desktop applications though. I mentioned a few earlier that are included with the OS. The rest are mostly cross-platform and free software that do [...]

Software I use and why – Browser

Before really starting to use the web much, (hard to believe there was such a time), I used the AOL Browser, Juno and Netscape because they “came with” the internet. I did not realize I had a choice. The same was basically true for Internet Explorer. It was already on the machine and it worked [...]

Software I use and why – OS

I have read through quite a few lists of software, web-sites, and other computer related tools that are designed to help you get your work done and have more fun. Most of the lists though are of twenty different ways to do a particular task. These lists have their place. They are the lists that [...]

Learning Chinese Web 2.0 style

I found a cool website awhile back that I am using to learn Chinese. Nciku not only translates from English to Chinese and back. It also gives you a full definition for each word, including all alternate meanings. This really helps with words like “light” which can refer to a light color, a light weight, [...]

Musicovery

I just ran into a new (to me at least) music site. I am not really big into “radio” music. I like singing, but I am nothing like an iPod addict. I have enjoyed Pandora.com, though, because I really like Christmas music and Pandora makes it easy to set-up a station of just Christmas music. [...]

Zoho versus Google Docs

Did I ever mention that I love my wife? There are hundreds of reasons, of course, but one of the top reasons is that she is a geek. A couple weeks she got frustrated with Google docs. They still need to work on some “features”. I suggested she try a different service. The only one [...]