Google Quick Search – Quicksilver lives on…
Quicksilver was one of those love or hate applications which many a mac user swore by. It was a launcher that meant your mac productivity was increased as it was kind of like spotlight on expresso…
Well although quicksilver is no longer under
Hab.la – Add live chat to your website nice and easy…
This is nice!
Hab.la is a tiny piece of code that you can paste into your iweb website (or others) that will unlock the ability to include a live chat panel (that you can customise) on your page. The best part is that it is multi-protocol which means it works with ichat, googletalk, and loads more…….
So you can be logged in on adium and somebody visiting your website can see your online and send you a message (this is done anonymously so they will not know your chat details and username etc..) and when you respond in your favourite client (adium suggested but supported by ichat also) a live chat session is initiated…..
It sounds a lot trickier than it is but the Hab.la have included a little file to automatically install the account into your adium or ichat client.
I really like this one!
VenueM – Convert your site with RSS into an iPhone Site…
Venue M Have unceremoniously decided to terminate everybodies account with very short notice and citing that they are “concentrating on native apps”….Poor form VenueM, POOR FORM!
I was looking for a way to optimise bigmacblog for iPhone and Android users, hopefully to make it load quicker and give a generally better viewing expeirence.
I think I found a way.
VenueM is a free web service where you enter your RSS feed address, fill in a few fields etc and Schblamo! An instant iPhone styled website……most excellent!
ReadAir – Google Reader on Adobe Air Platform…
Readair is a Google Reader application created on the Adobe Air platform, which means its fast, slick and cross platform.
Its really nice and simple and is a great environment for catching up on all those RSS feeds that you have mounting up!
Vidnik – Upload straight from iSight to YouTube…
This one is a neat little app that allows you to record and upload straightaway to you your youtube account, very useful for those habitual Vloggers out there…
iTweak – Add extras to iWeb such as favicon and google search…
I just stumbled across iTweak, a free application that gives you the chance to add favicons, hit counters, google site search fields and more to your lowly iWeb website.
It seems pretty simple to use and gives iWeb some pretty nifty functionality. Guess well have to wait to see if any of this will be included in the next iteration of iWeb but until then, check it out.
iWeb SEO – Optimise your site for search engines…
iWeb SEO is a free Search Engine Optimisation tool that will enable your website for google analytics and also add meta tags as well as being able to tag images.
And of course, as (mostly) usual, its Free…
CUIL – One more search engine, except pretty this time…
I know, I know, not another search engine!…
This one promises to be different.
Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is an old Irish word for Knowledge and tries to offer a more reliable and relevant search engine. Basing its search criteria on relevance and content rather than superficial metrics and user data, websites big and small have an equal chance of appearing high up in searches. The searches are presented to you in a clean format with a picture preview and synopsis, allowing you to see at a glance if the search is relevant.
As well as this fresh way of searching, Cuil claims to search three times as many sites as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. The cherry on the icing is that unlike the big boys, Cuil will never store user data or search history, no matter how tempting it may be to spy on you and your habits, they wont!
Cooliris – Reloaded on the iPhone
jeez, I just installed the iPhone App (hot of the press) thanks to the lovely Jenny Lum letting me know that its available……..crikey it works reaaaaaally well, I was expecting it to be a lot slower than the safari app but hell no…..if anything it may even be faster!
For me the killer is being able to email images direct from the application, great for doing little bits of research on the bus etc. (I know not all of you are dorky beans like me!)
Definitely get this one guys and best of all its free!
Cooliris – The Cinematic Web…
Transform your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to discover the Web. This is the promise of Cooliris and it kinda delivers.
Basically it is a plugin for Safari that adds a button to the Safari window that when pressed will invoke the cooliris view where you will see purely the media contained within certain (supported) websites. At the moment it is fairly restricted to flickr, google, amazon etc but you can also easily optimise your own website to work with cooliris by going to developer.cooliris.com (they have made it really easy to do!).
Even though its still a bit green its defintely worth downloading and adds an extra dash of Oooooo! to your browsing experience!
