Category: Software

  • New Windows Live Writer makes blogging easy

    Microsoft has released a new version in beta of Windows Live Writer, the offline blogging editor of choice for many bloggers with Windows PCs (I’m one of those bloggers). The new version – described as Windows Live Writer 2009: Release…

  • A look into RSS feeds managed by Google

    Last weekend, all my RSS feeds that have been managed by Feedburner over the past four years were auto-migrated to Google. This is a culmination of a process arising from Google’s acquisition of Feedburner in mid 2007 where all RSS…

  • WordPress 2.7 is all about the user

    The latest version 2.7 of the WordPress blogging platform for self-hosted blogs was released this week, and a terrific upgrade it is. The first thing to notice is the brand new structure of the administration interface, aka the dashboard (click…

  • Less email spam with OtherInbox

    For the past few months, I’ve been using an email service in private beta called OtherInbox as a way to manage email from companies whose services I sign up for. This is especially useful when you sign up for something…

  • Will Google Friend Connect deliver the promise?

    I’m doing a little experiment on this site with Google Friend Connect, a new service in beta from Google that was announced in May. Some sites are receiving invitations to sign up; this site is one of those. According to…