• IT|Redux and ThinkFree offer up a free USB drive with ThinkFree preloaded

    If you think you may be interested in weaning yourself off of Microsoft (or Apple) dependence, check out this post from Ismael Ghalimi over at IT|Redux.  I’ve signed up, and plan to do a thorough review of ThinkFree’s portable edition when I get the drive.  I’ve done some work with…

  • links for 2007-02-15

    Tech Salary Negotiations – IT jobs | Negotiation Institute Good advice. (tags: salary negotiation career jobs business work job CV)

  • Nokia N800: Not really for the rest of us (yet)

    In my quest to become totally platform agnostic and mobile, I decided to give the new Nokia N800 internet tablet a spin. The N800 is an interesting and hard to classify device manufactured by Nokia, purveyor of mobile phones. Dubbed an ‘internet tablet’, this second generation device is primarily aimed…

  • links for 2007-02-14

    Yahoo! Mail Beta meets Yahoo! Messenger Yahoo! integrates Messenger into Mail Beta. (tags: yahoo yahoo_messenger)

  • I couldn’t agree more

    Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic (makers of WordPress, Akismet, etc.), recently posted on his blog about his desire to have a ‘Firefox computer’: I run a PC at home and a Mac on the road. Their respective operating systems just don’t get me very excited these days. The only thing…

  • Highrise, 37Signals finally ready to reveal it’s contact management application

    More than a year ago, I wrote about 37Signals’ plans to unveil a ‘CRM type’ application to go along with their wildly successful Basecamp and Backpack online applications. What was then referred to as ‘Sunrise’ has now morphed into ‘Highrise’ just as details are beginning to emerge. The original announcement…

  • Making sense of Yahoo!Pipes

    With all the traveling I’ve been doing of late, I haven’t had an opportunity to digest Yahoo!’s latest offering, Pipes. Luckily, there are a bunch of bloggers that have done a great job in dissecting Pipes (which apparently is a variant of a similar process on Unix based machines). Nick…

  • links for 2007-02-12

    Nick Bradbury: YouTunes: An Example Yahoo! Pipe Nick shows what Yahoo! Pipes can do (tags: rss yahoo mashup itunes youtube pipes video) Air India’s new look (tags: air_india airline)

  • links for 2007-02-11

    Nozbe, a new GTD kid on the busy block (tags: GTD productivity) Why Software Business Models of the Future Probably Won’t Come in a Box – Knowledge@Wharton A really good read. (tags: enterprise_software software business wharton)