Archive for the ‘Applications’ Category

YourMinis Acquired by AOL

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Wow, totally missed this. AOL has acquired Goowy and therefore also YourMinis. While I never had a look at Goowy's webtop application - some kind of web OS - I really like YourMinis. YourMinis provides a startpage similar to Netvibes and Pageflakes, but widgets have become even more important over time. ...

Is Giving away Passwords cool Again?

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

It is January 30, 2008, the tech blog world is enamoured with the idea of data portability and related standards like OpenID and OAuth. At least that is my impression when reading blogs these days. But maybe I am wrong and it is just a feverish dream? I am confused ...

FeedDemon: Replacing Google Reader?

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

On Wednesday Newsgator surprised many people by releasing new versions of their client RSS readers and making them available for free. Clients include FeedDemon for Windows platforms and NetNewsWire for the Mac. Since reading feeds has become part of my daily online routine I am always looking for an apprpriate ...

Gmail Helps to Remember The Milk

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Managing tasks with Gmail? Absolutely, it just needed some proper implementation and Remember The Milk (RTM) has done a great job. You just have to download a Firefox add-on and you will discover a new pane on the right side of the Gmail page which looks like this: All your tasks ...