Archives for the 'online apps' Category
Find out how fast you type [Hack Your Day]
People who work a lot at a computer may find that their productivity is defined by their speed typing skills. The faster you type the less time you spend doing it (or the more you can type), ultimately you do more.
If you want to find out just how fast you are, take this handy Typing [...]
ClipClip - Your online scrap book [Hack Your Day]
I am not a huge fan of clipping tools, there do seem to be a lot these days, but I found ClipClip worth the mention since it is so simple and for scrapping purposes it is effective.
The idea behind clipping tools is pretty simple, you can highlight a section on the web, pics [...]
Google Docs offline being rolled out [Hack Your Day]
Google is implementing Google Gears into Google Docs, a feature long awaited by many in the online community. This means that you will be able to use Google Docs without internet access, and when you do manage to go online your stuff will be synchronized automatically.
Offline access will probably mean that you will loose [...]
Google’s April Fools [Hack Your Day]
Google really does come up with the best pranks on April 1st. Most pranks I see around the web and in real life are either quite dull, or are quite evil and over the top. Google manages to balance this somehow and provide us with more charm than we are used to. Last year they [...]
Wordpress 2.5 is here! [Hack Your Day]
Over the weekend I had some serious fun, so I didn’t even write posts, and it seems I missed out on an important bit of news, Wordpress has secretly released 2.5 behind my back. I’m glad to say that it was released on my birthday, possibly as a present to me, I was waiting for [...]
Flickr tag browser [Hack Your Day]
A quick stumble led me to one of the best tag browser sites I’ve seen lately. Flickr related tag browser brings together design and usability in a great way.
Enter any tag into the slightly slanted box and you will be presented with pics applicable to that tag. You will also see a tag cloud around [...]
Photoshop Express test drive [Hack Your Day]
Today I took the freshly released Adobe Photoshop Express for a test drive, the online version of Photoshop (sort of). The reason that I say sort of is that there is no painting and drawing, this is strictly a photo editor application.
Photoshop Express looks much like Buzzword, the previous Adobe online product. I quite like [...]
GoodSearch - Find what you need and support charity [Hack Your Day]
I just found a cool service called GoodSearch which is simply a search site, but promises to give half its revenue to charity. You can even specify which charity you want to support and if they can verify it, they will send the money to them.
The reason this works great is that you can also [...]
Google code university [Hack Your Day]
I’m probably a little late with this info, but Google has released Google Code University, a page simply built around teaching people code. It already features some AJAX and CSS stuff plus some more and I bet they’ll expand a lot on this.
Knowing Google, in a year this will all be integrated with Google Maps, [...]
Opening Excel files without any Office software [Hack Your Day]
I recently formatted my whole hard drive and reinstalled Ubuntu to dual boot with Vista and when I started to work I noticed that I needed to open an Excel file urgently. I wasn’t at home, so I didn’t have my Office CD, nor did I have time to download Open Office (at that time [...]