Google Reader adds drag-and-drop
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Google Reader made a small but significant improvement to their user interface.
You can now drag-and-drop feeds into different user-defined folders. Prior to this enhancement, one had to change settings for each feed by selecting which folder it belonged to.
This small enhancement will make it that much easier to manage your feeds now.
Thanks Google!
[via Google Reader Blog]
Business Card 2.0
Ooprint has taken the concepts of Web 2.0 to the world of business cards. Their “Business Card 2.0″ is a very unique and interesting way to attract new readers and network with other bloggers. Your blogger card allows you to leave your mark (or rather, your URL) outside the digital world. The unique tag cloud can be personalized to focus on key words that are important to you and your blog.
Ooprint.com offers 100 FREE business cards (you pay only shipping fees). Get your 2.0 business cards today…
Firefox 2.0.0.10 released…
The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 2.0.0.10. This version addresses the following security vulnerabilities
- MFSA 2007-39 Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition
- MFSA 2007-38 Memory corruption vulnerabilities (rv:1.8.1.10)
- MFSA 2007-37 jar: URI scheme XSS hazard
If you are not yet on this version of Firefox, I would highly recommend that you download the update.
On a different note, don’t you think we are seeing far too many security releases for Firefox these days? Are these signs of lapses in their development and testing processes or just the fact that Firefox popularity and its resultant hack attempts are on the rise?
Speed Linking: 23-Nov-07
Some useful links for the day:
- DownloadSquad has an interesting article titled “Ten Tips for Web Design Magic“. The title is a little misleading, but the article is still quite good.
- LifeHacker reviews a cool tool which allows you to make an offline copy of any website. Its called GearsMonkey, and requires Google Gears.
- Adobe has a new service called Share. It is a web-based service which will let you to upload, share files by embedding it in web page or blog or send documents without e-mail attachments, and access your documents from anywhere. The service is in Beta currently.
Enjoy!
Review: Atlantic Dominion Solutions
Ruby on Rails is a free web application framework. It aims to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created, and offers skeleton code frameworks (scaffolding) from the outset. Often shortened to Rails, or RoR, Ruby on Rails is an open source project written in the Ruby programming language.
Atlantic Dominion Solutions (ADS) specializes in using Ruby on Rails to build advanced, scalable, database-backed web sites for organizations of all sizes. Atlantic Dominion Solutions is an active member of the Ruby on Rails community and an internationally recognized advocate for Rails education and development. Atlantic Dominion Solutions can be called a Ruby on Rails Company.
The Ruby on Rails Portfolio of ADS is quite impressive. The portfolio provides details of 9 success stories for the company ranging from financial services websites to web 2.0 sites.
ADS claims to have the right expertise with their team of Ruby on Rails developers to make your web projects a success. ADS believes in an iterative development model, which enables you to see and test portions of the website as and when they are developed.
Quoting ADS,
Using one-third the amount of code of other common platforms, ADS builds you a scalable Rails website with two-thirds more functionality than the other platforms can provide.
If Ruby on Rails is your choice for your next web project, do evaluate the services of ADS.
Amazon’s eBook Reader: Kindle
Amazon launched its $399 wireless eBook reader a few days back and its had a mixed bag of reviews. The eBook allows you to download and read books, newspapers and browse the web on-the-go. You can buy books online from the Kindle Online Store.
Rather than providing my own set of comments on the reader, its best you read opinions on it from leading blogs:
- Amazon Kindle at ProductWiki
- TechCrunch gave it a thumbs down. The web browser took as long as 55 seconds to load the TechCrunch page!
- Read the specs at Engadget
Lets Play Paintball
The game of paintball is a combat sport in which participants eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with paintballs (spherical gelatin capsules containing primarily polyethylene glycol, other non-toxic and water-soluble substances, and dye) shot from a compressed-gas-powered “marker” (gun). A game of paintball usually involves two opposing teams seeking to eliminate all of the other team’s players or variations of it.
Ultimate Paintball is a company that deals in paintball equipment. They sell Tippmann, Spyder, Smart Parts, Dye, and Draxxus paintball gear plus many more brands which you can find on their website. Their top selling paintball guns are Tippmann A-5, Tippmann 98 Custom, Smart Parts Ion, and Spyder Pilot ACS.
Any equipment purchased from the Ultimate Paintball website is shipped for free.
Firefox 3 Beta 1 Released…
The Mozilla Foundation has released Beta 1 of Firefox 3. There is no official announcement yet on their website though. The link provided has installers for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
Do note that several plugins will NOT work with this beta version. This is just Beta 1 so don’t expect it to be very stable at the same time. I believe there are over 700 critical bugs that still need to be ironed out before the official release of Firefox 3.
The Mozilla Wiki has the complete feature list for Firefox 3 along with its current status.
StirSite: Make Your Own Website
With StirSite you can make your own website in a few minutes with everything you need to get your business, store, club, team, or non-profit organization online for under $25.
StirSite provides pc and mac website builder software which has been used by over 173,000 organizations to create web sites, complete with photo albums, email, ecommerce, paypal, calendars, and more than 450 other features without ever having built a web site before.
StirSite provides as many as 30 features at no additional cost. This includes 10 page layouts, photo albums, feedback forms, multimedia support, guest book, recommended sites, mailing lists, newsletters, message boards, calendar, auto responder, map, quotes page, polls, etc.
The tools provided a sufficient to get a website up and running within minutes without having to know web programming at all. This is ideal for those who either have no knowledge of web programming or those who are just pressed for time.
The StirSite website itself is very well designed with a lot of details with screenshots provided for each of the features. This will make it crystal clear as to what each of the features does and should enable you to close the deal faster!
StirSite is currently providing a free 10 day trial? Give it a shot…
Tons of Gmail Add-ons
Do you use Gmail? Do you use the plain-vanilla version provided by Google, or have you powered it up using some cool enhancements & hacks available for it? This post tries to get together a list of cool tools for Gmail. Some of the links below are links to other posts which cover the same topic as this.
This list is in no way comprehensive. I’m sure there are plenty of other add-ons available. For now, sit back and enjoy the tools…
Firefox Add-ons:
- Gspace: Use Gmail as a file storage server.
- Gmail Manager: Manage multiple accounts and receive email notifications.
- Conversation Preview Bubbles: Email preview without having to load the email page.
- Gmail Notifier: Monitor multiple Gmail accounts right inside your browser’s UI.
- Better Gmail 2: Visual Enhancements to Gmail.
- GTD Inbox: Integrates the methodology of “Getting Things Done” into Gmail.
- FireGPG: Brings an interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of text in any web page using GnuPG.
- Gmail Skins: Tries to make your Gmail experience a little better!
Similar Articles:
- Mark Lyon’s Gmail Loader: A list of 20+ tools for Gmail
- Robs Blog has a collection of 30+ Gmail Tools & Plugins
- Mashable has an article that covers 60+ tools and resources for Gmail
