Archive for September, 2006

Sidepath is a quick and easy URL re-direct application that ties in with your web site.

Pain in the Tech originally discovered Sidepath here.

Sidepath is TinyUrl to the next level

What is Sidepath

Many people have used TinyUrl.

Sidepath is TinyUrl to the next level.

In all the years I’ve used Gmail, I don’t think I’ve ever “accidently” hit a button that I didn’t want to. This is because Gmail seems to have intentionally made certain buttons wider than others.

Gmail users know that Google has included some of the best usability features into it’s email software. This brief article discusses an overlooked usability feature of Gmail. When composing a message in Gmail, you’ll notice three buttons along the top - one for “Send,” “Save Now,” and “Discard.” Notice how they’re placed directly next to each other.

PictureSync is an application that lets users easily annotate and upload their photos to various photo sharing services, or move annotated photos to another folder (FTP them to a remote site). Annotating a photo means to add descriptive information to the photo (metadata), such as a title, description, keyword, or geographic location (latitude and longitude). This data is different from the EXIF data that your digital camera records and embeds into the output file.

Google Calendar allows you to use SMS, to remotely interact with your calendar.

This is extremely handy for when you are away from the computer, and/or an internet connection, and you need to either check your events for the day, or add future events for another day.

If you use text messages a lot on your mobile phone, you can easily interact with you calendar:

• Check today’s events.
• Check tomorrow’s events.

Unfortunately the preferred file systems for Windows XP and Mac OS X do not permit users to read and write data between each other. NTFS is the recommend file system on Windows XP and HFS+ is the preferred file system on OS X. Recent versions of OS X will read NTFS partitioned disks, but will not write to the partition. I have a PC and Mac, but my PC is my primary machine. I want one disk drive that I can swap between my Windows and OS X computers, so I found the overall easiest solution to be a Mac-formatted FAT32 single-partition external disk drive.