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Create desktop internet applications with Prism [Hack Your Day]

A great new tool Mozilla is working on is called Prism, and it gives you the ability to create an application for your desktop out of any web service. Great examples are Gmail, Google Docs, Remember the Milk, but you can do it for any web page really.
Essentially it is a sort of browser that [...]

9 April 2008 | Desktop Software, Firefox, Productivity, browsing, mozilla, online apps, prism | No Comments

Productive Wikipedia searching [Hack Your Day]

There seems to be some buzz around browsing Wikipedia differently nowadays and I found a site that I would actually recommend to those of you using Wikipedia info often. Lexisum uses some AJAX goodness to give you Wikipedia results as you type.
The really cool thing about it is that it’s blindingly fast. I mean when [...]

16 March 2008 | AJAX, browsing, lexisum, online apps, wikipedia | No Comments

A new way to browse Wikipedia [Hack Your Day]

I just found an application called IndyWiki that enables you to browse Wikipedia in a very different way than you’re used to. You search for a term, and it will show you a multitude of related things, like pics, links, sections and so on.

Although the interface is very intuitive, I think it needs a considerable [...]

4 February 2008 | Desktop Software, Productivity, browsing, wiki, wikipedia | No Comments