A few months ago, I volunteered to serve as communications chairperson for a small non-profit organization. Most of the people who help me with communications are unpaid volunteers. As CEO of a startup company, I’m used to wearing many different hats and dedicating a lot of my time to the company. But I can’t ask [...]
My primary desktop computer runs Windows XP. To make XP more tolerable, I keep a bunch of free or inexpensive utilities close at hand. Most of these get carried on CD or memory stick to assist in troubleshooting other people’s computers too.
SpellBound is one of the cool tools I use with Firefox. It is a browser extension that lets you check spelling within form input fields and textareas before you submit them. In fact, I used it to check the spelling of this blog entry. SpellBound also exposes a spell checking API that [...]
One of the hot areas on the Internet today is social bookmarks. Pearl Comments shares many features with social bookmarking tools and also includes pinpointing functionality to lend more precision to the conversation.
One of the cool tools that I like to use is Nvu, an HTML editor and web site management tool based on the Mozilla code. Daniel Glazman is the inspiration and wizard behind Nvu.
Nvu is very easy-to-use. It provides multiple editing modes (WYSIWYG, tags, source, preview). I rarely need to use anything [...]