11 days ago
wearehugh : OpenOffice vs. Google Apps - "comparing Google Apps to OpenOffice.org is like clubbing a staked-out bunny"
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3 month ago
nelson : Rails gets threads - Congratulations; it's like 1997 for the Ruby web development community
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : OpenTape, open-source Muxtape clone - nicely designed but requires PHP hosting, ruling out most Muxtape users [via]
deusx : Opentape - Add a feed, and you've got a podcast. "Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other site
philgyford : Opentape - Host-your-own version of Muxtape. What happens when a centralised system is squashed by lawyers: thousands of individual versions flower around the edges. (via Infovore)
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12 month ago
jonhicks : Fluid - An app for creating a Site Specific Browser (such as a GMail app for email) with webkit. Works brilliantly!
joshua : Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard
Cameron Moll : Fluid: Site-specific browser & dock icons for web apps - Fluid. Give your favorite web apps a site-specific browser and home on your Mac OS X Leopard dock.
Simon Willison : Fluid - Fluid. Another site-specific browser toolkit for OS X (Leopard only), from Todd Ditchendorf. Again, it’s not clear if this does the Right Thing and creates separate cookie jars for every application.
deusx : Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard - "Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. "
factoryjoe : Fluid - Wrap web apps in their own OS X browser, complete with Dock icon. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: os x, mac, safari, fluid, web apps, site-specific browser, webkit
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22 month ago
43folders : PackRat goes 1.0 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - Great idea. OS X app syncs all your Backpack pages to your Mac and back. Stuff like this makes online-only apps a *lot* more attractive to serious users.
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22 month ago
43folders : bubbl.us - brainstorming with style - Clever little Ajax app for whizzy online brainstorming. Mightn't trump paper unless/until I can export to _do_ stuff with it. Fun and easy to use though.
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43folders : Crap I love: Wesabe | A Whole Lotta Nothing - "For me, the main draw was simply having a powerful web version of something like Quicken, but flexible like flickr or delicious."
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Ryan Carson reveals DropSend's month on month earnings - What a fascinating move, and what an interesting situation to be in, to have build a simple functional service that generates money month on month for limited amounts of physical effort.
Andy Baio : Ryan Carson publishes DropSend's monthly profits - it's still baffling why he's selling it if it takes so little effort [via]
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26 month ago
43folders : d3 - a 'kinkless' GTD system - "This system attempts to capture the essence of a 'kinkless' GTD system using TiddlyWiki."
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27 month ago
jkottke : The oh, don't forget site offers an easy way to send yourself (and other people) reminders to a mobile phone - The oh, don't forget site offers an easy way to send yourself (and other people) reminders to a mobile phone. And API for this would be great...you could (theoretically) send all your iCal appointment alarms to the service.
43folders : oh, don't forget... - Drop-dead simple web app for sending a reminder to your mobile phone. via Mr. Kottke
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28 month ago
merlinmann : My Tickler File - New web app lets you create an online "43 folders" that emails you reminders. Supports simple recurring events and tagging. Free trial.
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31 month ago
Paul Hammond : Building a Web App? Don't Forget the Premium Plan! - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - In two weeks, we’ve increased our total revenue by 30%!
plasticbag : Ryan Carson talks about the value in a premium service for Web Apps - Charging $99 for DropSend's premium service increased their revenue by 30% in two weeks...
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32 month ago
kellan : JavaScript-based apps can be served up from the S3 domain as files stored via S3 - Adds up to JavaScript apps hosted on S3 with AJAX-based read/write access to S3 itself. #
Simon Willison : JavaScript apps with read/write access to S3 - JS apps hosted on S3 could read and write to the store.
Paul Hammond : JavaScript apps with read/write access to S3 » Archive » Blog » 0xDECAFBAD - All of this adds up to JavaScript apps hosted on S3 with AJAX-based read/write access to S3 itself.
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33 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Pixoh - Pixoh: "Edit pictures online" a neat hack
plasticbag : Pixoh - a lovely little app that allows you to crop, rotate and perform minor edits on photos live on the web - There's a bookmarklet and you can post directly to Flickr. The whole thing is lovely. Thanks to Pasha for the link
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34 month ago
merlinmann : Ma.gnolia Social Bookmarking: Search and Find Web Sites & Build Community Online. - Good-looking del.icio.us competitor. Haven't spent much time with it yet but it sure is purty.
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34 month ago
Paul Hammond : My 'Future of Web Apps' slides... (plasticbag.org) - Without my notes there are great chunks where I'm afraid you'll have to make pretty substantial leaps to keep the thread of the thing, which is hardly ideal
kellan : So has anyone else considered that Tom's brilliant 9 rules - Are just viral marketing for 9 Rules? (I thought at first maybe 9 Songs, but decided to leave that alone) #
deusx : My 'Future of Web Apps' slides... (plasticbag.org)
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35 month ago
merlinmann : gtd-php Getting Things Done with PHP - "gtd-php is an open source, web-based implementation of the Getting Things Done (GTD) personal organization system."
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38 month ago
Andy Baio : Remember the Milk - nicely-designed, feature-rich to-do lists [via]
merlinmann : Remember The Milk
jimray : Remember The Milk - Nifty looking todo list
joshua : Remember The Milk: Online to do list and task management
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38 month ago
merlinmann : Ning App Ideas - Clever stuff. This will be a lot of fun to play with.
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38 month ago
kellan : Invite-only comments: a new web pattern? - Invitations have become popular, but this is an interesting new idea. (AJAX comments are, by comparision, passe) #
deusx : Ajax invite-only comments | Spun, a web developer's notebook - "So far there have been fewer comments than I anticipated but the ones that are there are super-high quality and on-topic, so that makes me happy."
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40 month ago
Paul Hammond : Anil Dash: How Do We Judge Our Tools? - I'm disheartened that so many people, especially those in the design community who are (ideally) focused on creating a good experience for users, don't judge an application by the goals it's supposed to accomplish.
Linkorama : How Do We Judge Our Tools? - Anil is disheartened that so many people, especially those in the design community who are (ideally) focused on creating a good experience for users, don't judge an application by the goals it's supposed to accomplish.
znarf : Anil Dash: How Do We Judge Our Tools? [via] #
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Are Adaptive Path working on an Ajax app? - And if so, can I come play?
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44 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : Running your company on web apps
plasticbag : Ev Williams on the new productivity web-apps... - "One interesting thing about starting a company today versus a few years ago: Lots of cool web apps are now available that you can more or less run you company on."
philgyford : evhead: Running your company on web apps - Includes a couple of web-hosted services I hadn't come across before
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