Posts Tagged With: apps
· May 15, 2008 at 5:55 am · Interviews
Tags: apps, feedmyapp, future, internet, links, matteo, Web-2.0
For a long time I visited TechCrunch to see a lot of the latest Web 2.0 apps out there, but not anymore. I’ve got a resource to share with you that is ten times better than that. FeedMyApp.com is my favorite resource when it comes to finding the coolest and the newest in Web 2.0.
The large database there is also handy if you want to search around and find an application for the job or tool you wish to make better. I recently had a chance to chat with the guy behind the magic there Matteo Alessani about the FeedMyApp.com web site and what it is they do there.
What was the reason for starting the FeedMyApp.com web site and what keeps you going with it?
Matteo: The main reason we started FeedMyApp was that there wasn’t anything similar on the web. There were lots of sites and directories listing web 2.0 apps, but we just wanted to create a simple, easy to use and up-to-date site with the latest and best web apps. Most web app directories, list entries with their respective logos. We thought that most users couldn’t gain much information from a single visual. So we focused on describing each web app with a title, a short tagline (sometimes written by us) and a screenshot. Moreover we are always surfing for new apps, so why not put gather and share them all with our readers?
Do you have a team of people behind the web site, or are you a one man team?
Matteo: I normally work on FeedMyApp on my own, even though my other two colleagues help me find and add new. When you surf the web you always come across interesting new apps. So as soon we find a new one, we add it to FeedMyApp!
When finding new Web 2.0 apps out there do most of them come to you or do you do most of the finding?
Matteo: We do most of the finding although a small portion (99% are pharm/spam apps) are authentic and not yet listed on other web sites. del.icio.us is another excellent source of new sites and web 2.0 apps.
In your opinion, what does it take to get a lot of people’s attention these days?
Matteo: Simple, updated, new content. I could grab people’s attention by adding some useful features to the web site. But I prefer to follow the “keep it simple” mantra: do less and do it better than anyone. However, we are planning some cool new features for our web 2.0 directory.
I know you can’t make use of them all but, out of the hundreds that you have reviewed, which Web 2.0 apps are you using in your day to day life?
Matteo: In my day to day life I mainly use Last.fm, Flickr, Gmail, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, Twitter, Basecamp, Feedburner, Digg and Facebook. At Extendi we always use Ruby-on-Rails, Prototype and script.aculo.us for our web 2.0 projects!
Remember to check out FeedMyApp.com and let him know I sent you there.
· March 24, 2008 at 6:14 am · Desktop
Tags: apps, backup, free, logon, programs, Vista, Windows
I have been using Windows Vista for some time, and sure - it does have a few quirks that make me want to beat myself over the head with my keyboard. Overall though, 85% of the time, I have to say I am pretty happy with it. I am at least as happy as I was with Windows XP. Here are three of the best programs I have found that have just added a little more icing to the Vista cake.
Shadow Explorer
This program makes it a quick and easy job to browse through the shadow copies of your files created by the Windows Vista volume shadow copy service. Without, it is kind of hard to hunt down an exact file backup, but with it - it gives you a familiar interface to find all your backed up files. I would still recommend backing up using other means, but this is just one more nice Vista addition to have handy.
Logon Studio Vista
Tired of how your default Windows Vista logon screen looks? This free download will allow you to change that background picture you see on the logon screen to whatever you desire. They also have several you can download and use too. Sure, this is just an eye candy improvement, but we all like for things to look nice, right?
Lifextender
This tool, used with Vista Media Center, is an application designed to remove any and all commercials from the video that you record. I have used it a number of times for the various cable shows I watch and it has yet to let me down. Might just set it up to work overnight, so it doesn’t get in the way of your day to day work.
For some more applications to make the Vista experience better, check out Ave’s Vista Stuff. There are a handful of neat little application there that will add a few more perks to your shinny new OS.
· March 19, 2008 at 7:29 am · Desktop, Online Tools
Tags: apps, Desktop, Mozilla, prisim, programs, updates, web
Prism, Mozilla’s answer for bringing the web in as desktop applications, continues to amaze me. I just downloaded the newest release, and it has a few new features worth checking out. They have an extension for one, that works with Firefox 3 so that you can quickly split out web applications from Firefox without the need to manage a separate Prism application. You can convert to a Prism powered application right there in Firefox.
You can also pick an icon to represent the web site or Prism application you are setting it up as. By default it searches for the favicon, but you can edit it to go to any image. That image will become the desktop icon for it. The Fluid Flickr group had a lot of nice icon examples you could use too. (thanks to TwisterMc for that jewel)
To help with performance, each Prism app also runs in it’s own profile:
Prism now places each web app into its own process/profile so they don’t interfere with each other, which also makes it possible to install a web app twice and use it simultaneously with two different user accounts.
Personally Prism really excites me a lot and if this is still the beta form of the project, I can’t imagine the goodies waiting for me in the final release.
· September 10, 2007 at 6:25 am · Hot Web Topics
Tags: apps, beginners, packages, programs, start, Ubuntu, Windows
To continue from where I left off previously, my installation of Ubuntu’s Feisty Fawn (7.04) has been full of nothing but pleasant surprises. It just works! Right out of the box, if you will. So far, the experience has been smooth. Now, like most of you out there, I was hyped to see what all I had to use that was comparable to Windows. Granted, not all applications/software/games will work on Ubuntu….yet.
But thanks to some clever people over at the Wine project, that is soon to be a thing of the past.
Applications Galore! OK, let’s see what we have here:
Word Processing
- Windows: Word
- Ubuntu: OpenOffice.org’s Writer
Spreadsheet
- Windows: Excel
- Ubuntu: OpenOffice.org’s CalcPresentation
Presentations
- Windows: Powerpoint
- Ubuntu: OpenOffice.org’s Impress
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