December 13, 2008
I do research all the time, and it’s always on the Web. Even when the material comes from a “book” (remember those?), odds are I found a snippet of it on Amazon or read it on Google Books. All the research I do is on the internet, whether it’s for school, Make Use Of or [...]
November 24, 2008
Someone had once remarked that simplicity is making the journey of life with just baggage enough. Sometimes, I try to apply the same axiom to my “˜soft aware’ life too. And that involves squeezing the maximum juice out of what’s available in my computer. One thing that has always been available since the last 20 [...]
November 19, 2008
I used to be addicted to sticky notes. There I said it… The kids in the mail room were bringing me a few new packs daily. I stuck them everywhere. On monitors, servers, laptops even on interns. (Hey I have problems remembering names more than IP addresses!) So when I came across this simple <1MB [...]
August 4, 2008
Gnome-Do is a quicksilver-like application for Linux. By itself, it is only a simple application launcher, and seriously speaking, I find that there is nothing great about it on its own. However, if you make good use of the plugins in the repository, you will discover that there are tons of things that you can [...]
October 6, 2006
Mystickies is a handy application that allows you to stick notes on the webpages you visit. It’s in particularly usefull for someone who does lots of research and reading online. Notes can be put on any pages or articles and will be visible whenever you visit them again. It’s a cool way to mark important [...]
