“The autumn wind is a Raider”…thoughts about this most excellent theme song.
Russell Beattie’s Moblogger is a client-side Java application that grabs email messages sent to a special account and posts them to your weblog (as long as it supports the Blogger API which most do). He also handles media attachments (pictures, sound, video), which opens up cool possibilities if you have a multi-media phone that can send e-mail. I think he’s on the right track here because this uses standard e-mail which most (if not all) mobile devices can support. Rather than creating weblog-type client apps for various devices, just do everything through e-mail. I’d like to take it a step…
Stickies for Windows looks pretty cool. If nothing else, it’s a good excuse to finally download the .Net framework and starting playing with it. It’s written in C# and is open source. Found this via Larkware which is a good source of various software goodies.
In addition to all the websites that provide RSS feeds (which I read with my headline mailer), there are a few periodic newsletters that are worth reading: “Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail newsletter on computer security and cryptography from Bruce Schneier (author of Secrets and Lies and Applied Cryptography, inventor of Blowfish and Twofish, CTO and founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., general crypto pundit and occasional crypto curmudgeon).” [http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html] WebWord Usability Weblog: “WebWord.com is a mission driven by John S. Rhodes, to provide you with outstanding usability information for all of your Internet endeavors.” [http://www.webword.com/] “First Monday is…
Amazon.com has a (limited) selection of free songs for download in MP3 or Liquid Audio format.