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The Challenge « The Challenge
Because I’m on Dan Raine’s email list, I was informed about this podcast. In the podcast, I discovered (among other, even more interesting facts) that Skitch just came out with a (free?) app for the iPad, and Skitch is now owned by Evernote. In the podcast, Ed or GuruBob says he loves Skitch coz he [...]
Re-organizing my Evernote notebooks
At the end of last year, veteran newsletter writer and web-surfer Gary North wrote about Evernote: Internet Explorer offers Favorites. Firefox offers Bookmarks. They do the same thing. With the two clicks of your mouse, you can save a link to a Web article. With a little extra work, you can re-name it. It’s there [...]
Blank pages problem solved. Problem caused by Diigo – Web Highlighter Firefox extension
Blank pages problem solved. The problem was caused by this addon: Diigo – Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network.. Resetting Firefox resulted in most clicked links opening properly in a new page, but still a couple of sites did not respond, i.e. clicking on the link brought up a [...]
How to lose your delicious customers
Update: Delicious support answered my email. It adds little to the answer I found on the forum (see below), but I post it here for the sake of completeness. Thanks, Delicious Support person in India-or-wherever: If you look closely at the right side you will see a faint pencil shaped button, that is our new [...]
Delicious woes – offline again
Delicious is offline again. I may have to look for a new online bookmarker… Or just transfer everything to Evernote?
The Best PDF Reader Apps for the iPad
Looking for a good PDF reader/annotater for your iPad? iAnnotate PDF is the best, according to this review. I actually downloaded it a while back, but have been too busy playing with pdf-notes (review here, on iTunes here) to try it out yet (also, I couldn’t see that it could do anything that pdf-notes can’t, [...]
TouchFire iPad keyboard – very cool
Damn! This is what I bought recently: This is what I’d like now:
How to turn long URLs into short, snappy links
Update: PRof. Lenz kindly told me of a program that allows you to create your own URL-shortening service, Yourls. My eyes glazed over when I read the first line, “YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts …” I perked up a bit when I saw, “There’s a WordPress plugin…” Aha! I clicked the Download [...]
Evernote offline notebook blues
Oh, dear. I’d paid my Evernote premium membership and was now happy to have my offline notebooks on my iPad. But wait! Changes I made to notes on my iPad don’t get synced. Well, of course not, dummy, they’re OFF-LINE. That’s what you asked for, that’s what you got. So, I go into my settings [...]
Delicious.com – Discover Yourself!
Update: Dropbox being offline made some others nervous, too. Delicious.com – Discover Yourself!. It’s back up now, but a couple of hours ago all I got was this: A student came to my office and asked for a copy of some material I was planning to use in an upcoming event and which he couldn’t [...]
