Category Archives: Online

Calendar Synchronization

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

For years, my employer has been almost anti-Microsoft.  Yes, we always had Windows laptops with Office on them, but the entire network backend was Sun.  My mailbox is on a Sun Java System Communication server, which I access via LDAP.  … Continue reading →

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Amazon Universal Wish List

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Even though it has been out for a while, I just attempted to use the Amazon Universal Wish List feature.  This is really cool.  It found the product image, and grabbed the Web Page title.  I was given the opportunity … Continue reading →

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Google Reader as a blogging platform?

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I’m been reading feeds in Google Reader for quite a while now.  It’s full of AJAX-y goodness, plus the convenience of being able to read my feeds anywhere is fantastic.  I recently started “sharing” feed items that interest me.  (Mostly … Continue reading →

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Firefox Update

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

On both a Windows XP and a Leopard Mac machine, today’s Firefox update failed when trying to use the partial update, and had to resort to a full update download.  The Full download seems to have worked on both machines. … Continue reading →

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Star Wars: An ASCII Hope

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

A New ASCII?  Well, something.  I’ve seen this before, but it is always brilliant.  Star Wars Episode IV via Telnet all done in ASCII art.  Just  telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl    

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Evernote Beta

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I have 10 invites to the Evernote beta if you’re interested in checking it out.  Just comment here (make sure you give me a real email address) and I’ll have them send you one.  

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Photoshop Express

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Wow, this is cool.  Adobe now has a beta of their online, flash-based, light image editor, Adobe Photoshop Express.  It is seriously fast.  It can do most of the basic editing things that you expect from a free app (crop, … Continue reading →

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eReader Pro now free

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

and it can purchase and download books over the air.  I’m a big fan of eReader, having found them to have a good selection of current titles, a nice reader, and a sensible DRM scheme (encrypted with your CC#.)  This … Continue reading →

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Comparing onling newsreaders

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

I was taking a quick look at my blog statistics to see if people were handing the redirect ok, and noticed some interesting data in the User Agent info.  Four obvious online news readers are subscribed to my blog, and … Continue reading →

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Updated Windows Live Writer

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

Scott Handelman is pointing to the updated Windows Live Writer, and is including some hacks to it and dasBlog which make it even more useful.  The thing that really interests me is its ability to upload images using the metaWebLog … Continue reading →

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