Email management is unfortunately become a necessity in the workforce and in personal life. It feels like these days you’re bombarded with information whether the information is relevant to you or just an FYI. A few years ago, I ended up adopting an Inbox Zero policy to help me manage my email and [...]
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Google App Engine
Google just announced a web application infrastructure called Google App Engine. Unlike Amazon’s offerings of a la carte services, Google provides a sandbox to host your application using a Python runtime environment. In addition to the Python runtime, Google App Engine provides access to a data persistence layer, Google’s account management system, and [...]
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Curls
I’ve been heavily interested in information graphics as of late. I came across a great tool that has been around for quite a few years now, Processing, that enables you to create visualizations of different types; some interactive, some works of art.
The image below is my initial attempts at creating some art.
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NewsGator Releases client RSS Readers as Freeware
Two of the most polished RSS readers are now free. If you are a Mac users or PC user alike, stop using your web browser as your RSS reader and use a client that was made to churn through your infoaddiction.
A nice writeup by NetNewsWire creator Brent Simmons.
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Powered by Amazon
Over the past 3 years, Amazon has been releasing Web Services for developer use. Some of which were related to Amazon products and quite a few unrelated. With Amazon’s latest rollout, SimpleDB, they have quietly released the starter kit for any online service company.
In a time where the technology industry is focused on [...]
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