Foxmarks: Sync your bookmarks across the ‘Net

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I’ve been experimenting with Foxmarks. It’s pretty neat. I wish I had discovered it years ago when I really needed it! Now, I have mostly memorized the hundred or so websites I use these days. So it’s not so important. But still I occasionally find pages and sites that I would like to come back to, esp. on pcs that aren’t my main pc, such as the one at work.

Foxmarks works well. It allows me to synchronise my bookmarks across the Internet. Very neat! I don’t have to rely on a website to do that!

You can download the plugin and install on Firefox 1.5 and above. First time use is quite simple, with a quick, painless and efficient registration process. It then syncs your first pc. You can then sync further pcs as you need. Each time your marks will be uploaded, synced and then appear on every net connected pc. That is cool and useful!

Bloggers-on-the-go: Portable Apps.com for the mobile life

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portableappsI’m amazed what people are doing nowadays with the open source software. Yes, that’s right people are putting many of the most popular ones in a format that can be used off a USB key.

The website is called PortableApps.com. Now that’s pretty neat. The selection of apps (27 as of last count!) that can do this neat trick is expanding quickly, and currently includes:

Openoffice
Abiword
Firefox
Thunderbird
MP3 Players, etc.

to name but a few. You can run Linux off a key, too. The ‘key’ point is having enough space on one of those USB drives to save the programs, the data, and whatever else you stuff on there. But with space increasing to 2GB or larger, I don’t think it’s going to be much of a problem. Also, functionality is limited to PCs running Windows (and WINE for Linux) but not Macs (shame!). But Windows versions from 98~ Vista are broadly supported.

I also tried to experiment to see if I could run those apps across a network of windows pcs by using a shared folder. It works, but slowly! Mind you, my machine was OLD (ie. nearly as old as Windows 98SE!). Anyway, John wrote:

Running the apps over network shares is pretty common with university folks that get their own network drive. The same rules as USB apply (compression = faster start, etc).

Regards,
John

Kenneth

BloggerWave: Wait till this ‘beta’ gets better!

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There have been a plethora of paid for blogging type websites opening up in the past few months. Along with the established players such as Payperpost (up nearly 9 months), Blogsvertise, Blogitive, now there’s Smorty, Loudlaunch, SponsoredReviews, and perhaps the latest, Bloggerwave.

bloggerwave website

With so many new entrants in the field, and the feeling that everything is on Internet time, some websites are launching without proper testing. Specifically, I mention Bloggerwave. Many registered users have been greeted by pages that look something like this. More users who registered have faced problems with the database not retaining their details, despite registering. The web pages that greet those who tried to login typically have looked something like this:

bloggerwave crashes

bloggerwave works

Still the website is now running again. I don’t know what the problems were. I would like to do a review of their website, but at the moment, it stills seems rough and unfinished. More like an alpha release, than a beta. Let’s hope things get better! I’d advise that you register now, but wait a little until things settle down.

Registered Bloggerwave User.