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TripIt is a very slick web tool, for planning trips.  It’s pretty simple, but works great.  Register, and give it any email addresses you might use.  Then, as you plan your trip and get plane, hotel and car confirmation emails, simply forward them to plans@tripit.com.  It parses the data, and makes a master itinerary.   I’ve [...]

It’s always frustrated me when clicking a “mailto” link in a browser, and it tries to open Outlook.  I use GMail for all my email.  Turns out that since Firefox 3.0, there is a fix.
* go to Tools > Options* select the Applications tab* search for mail* select Use Gmail from the list of actions [...]

Facebook had a significant design change last week, and for many, this was not a positive change. I might be in the minority, but I don’t actually mind the visual aspects of the design, with one huge, glaring, obnoxious exception. I love to see my friends statuses, links they find interesting, photos, [...]

After the disappointing discontinuation of Google Notebook, I’ve been testing a few different replacements, and I think I’ve settled on Evernote as by far my favorite.  I can’t imagine anyone who does ANY amount of online research not using a tool like this.
From their site, the list several great features:

On the web – Create, clip, [...]

There are dozens of good capable online Photo editing programs out there, but few Vector image editors. And sometimes you need to edit or create a vector image.
Raven is a new product from Aviary that allows vector image editing in your browser. I don’t think it’ll replace Illustrator for serious designers, but for [...]

I’m an unabashed GMail (Google Mail) fan.  It’s fast, searches work great, and I love tags vs. folders.   It simply works great.  And it’s easy to manage multiple email addresses from one spot.   If you’ve got an email address that you want to keep, you can manage nearly any email address through Google.

And Google has [...]

I love Gmail and many other google products. My wife calls me, probably accurately, a Google fanboy. But I’ve always felt that Google Calendar could be better integrated into Gmail. You’ve been able to add a puny side bar for a while, but I wanted more. Using the experimental Firefox add-on [...]

I do a lot of research online.  Having the right tool can make it much simpler.  I’ve been using Google Notebook for several years, and have been really happy with it.  Get the Firefox extension, and taking a note is as simple as highlighting the text/images you want to save, and right-clicking and choosing “Note [...]

In the relatively short time I’ve been keeping this blog, I’ve reviewed a few different online photo editors. Daily Gyan has done a nice roundup of 10 photo editors.  Unfortunately, they don’t really cover the pros and cons of each one, but if you want to try some, this would be a good place to [...]

This website is sort of a one trick pony, but it’s a very useful trick. I think all of us have, at some point, had a PDF that we wanted to edit in word, but it’s trickier to do that it should be. This website makes it simple. Upload a pdf, [...]