Category: Tools

Jake Savin is moving forward with Manila. Very good. It was just few weeks ago that I noted Manila was not updated for quite some time. Lawrence Lee is very responsive to the community if there are ideas how to improve. He also offers quick help if there are problems. What is very encouraging here…

PictureMe is just the missing link between iPhoto and the MacOS X addressbook. You can add addressbokk portraits from any picture file via drag&drop. I always wondered why Apple did not include that into iPhoto from the beginning. It’s so obvious.

I just gave Phoenix for OS X a try. It seems to be a very nice browser, stripped down to what a browser should have. Mozilla got such a bloated heavy beast. Phoenix still consumes more than twice as much RAM than Safari and still more than Mozilla. It also has some bugs and interface…

»Our research seeks to bring modern information management and retrieval technologies to the average computer user in order to make computers a more compelling place for users to interact with their information.« According to Katharina, Haystack is a kind of »Google for the Desktop« with an own user interface to access the database. [feedme News]

Tobias was asking about an RSS feed reader like NetNewsWire for Windows. I haven’t tested one myself, but there is a good list of available software for different platforms. I have heard someone using FeedReader. I think I also saw some positive comments about Syndirella. By the way: All our seminar sites offer their news…

»NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS Web news reader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface—similar to Apple Mail and Outlook Express—can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.«

This pic2icon tool turned out to be very useful. It add picture icons from image files so you can browse the images like thumbnails in the finder.

After following a post from Dave Winer about NoteTaker I tried that application. It may be true that Scott Love is a capacity on outliners, but he does not seem to be a capacity on user interfaces. NoteTaker has a somewaht deterrent user interface.

Moteran Systems is a German Company that invented a way to route WLAN traffic within a dynamic auto-configuring net of WLAN clients. With this technology each client functions as a relay for clients that are out of reach of the base station. To circumvent privacy issues the traffic is two-way encrypted.

»Jon Udell takes an interesting look at User Creations’ application Spring.« [Mac Net Journal]

Fixed a bug with »newsSite table not found« in context of static rendering. Thanks to Erin Clerico from weblogger.com for pointing that out.

There’s a new version of ZOE – that indexing E-Mail client – that supports RSS (including 2.0) as well as the Blogger APi and MetaWeblog API. I don’tyet fully understand what this means, but it sounds like I should consider ZOE once more.

I have been working on a new release of the hierarchyTemplates Plug-In – version 0.5. The two main new features are a) JavaScript objects and b) Theme compatibility (the settings of this Plug-In will be exported with a Manila theme). I am looking for people who are willing to test this one. I used it…

Now that Dave Winer found a reason to turn to Manila again for his Harvard Law School weblog server, I wonder if Userland will improve Manila some more. There hasn’t been much news about Frontier/Manila. There has been a lot of ideas from the community (even a Plug-Ins wish list). I was wondering if I…

NoteTaker 2003 v1.1 does OPML! »NoteTaker 2003 is a very groovy outliner that does lots of cool things like publish to the web, voice annotation and all kinds of other things that I haven’t figured out yet. I griped about the fact that it didn’t do OPML, before when I tried the previous release. Maybe…

Hooray! The latest beta of NetNewsWire Pro solves the XML-RPC issue with Manila sites that use german umlauts! Now I can see and edit all those news items and post directly to departments! Perfect!