These are some great sites I’ve come across in the past few weeks. I wanted to share them with you!
Some of these websites are helpful, some are funny, but all are definitely bookmarkable and worthy of a visit.
About time! Firefox 3 officially supports built-in Gmail as your default email client support!
I showed you a hack back in July that would force Gmail to be your default email client.
However, for those who aren’t as comfortable with coding, try these quick steps to set your Gmail account as your default email client:
You do not have to restart your browser.
Not only did Twitter update its interface over the weekend, but I have been experimenting with various methods of updating my Twitter account. I never thought I’d get into Twitter - simply because I didn’t “get it” but now, I am addicted! I love reading other people’s tweets and corresponding with people around the world in a less regimented environment than this blog, for example!
I have come to truly appreciate the concept of “microblogging” - but read more at Wikipedia if you don’t know what Twitter is.
Cloud computing is the wave of the future, according to many tech experts. So I decided to try the free online operating system (OS), icloud beta, which runs directly in your web browser (IE 6 or 7, Windows only), to see what all the hype is about.
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I logged onto icloud, which is built upon XML and Ajax. Each program runs smoothly and built-in features with this beta release are enough to keep you coming back to icloud for your computing needs.
Here’s a video demo of the program at work:
Last week, I added the PingCrawl plugin to my WordPress installation. Ah, it was interesting, to say the least. I saw the load time for posts increase dramatically, and even getting my WordPress administration screen to load in a timely fashion was difficult.
I even asked you guys, the readers to read my article, Automatically Add Links to Related Sites, and vote in a poll about PingCrawl.
The participation wasn’t that high, BUT, even I could see that my servers cannot handle the power of the great PingCrawl!
Google Knol is Google’s attempt to break into user-created content. It has similarities to Wikipedia and About.com, but it also takes a turn into social networking and collaboration by promoting the author of a knol prominently in the sidebar.
A knol by definition is a “unit of knowledge.” So, Google Knol is a collection of articles (called knols) on a myriad of topics - but at current, many of the knols cover medical topics (boring!).
However, there are a few really neat and helpful knols available, including my favorites:
