Entries from September 2007

Goodbye activeCollab, hello ProjectPier

September 29th, 2007 · 12 Comments

The project management application I use extensively for some of my tasks has turned its back on the open source beginnings that attracted me and, I’m sure, many others to it during its initial versions.
ActiveCollab is a clone of the popular Basecamp project management application. The main difference is that while Basecamp is a hosted [...]

Tags: Free services · Highlights · Open source · WebTech · free software · productivity

Edit your website, blog design live and without breaking it

September 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments

CSSVista is a tool any blogger or website owner will find useful. The Windows-only application allows you to load any website in Firefox and Explorer and then edit its CSS code live, with the changes showing immediately in the two browser windows.
CSSVISTA. The application makes editing website designs easy. CSSVista loads the page in [...]

Tags: Blog design · Highlights · WebTech · free software

From YouTube to your phone, MP3 player

September 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments

It was love at first note when I heard Amy Winehouse sing. Her voice exudes raw emotion unmatched in decades.
I first played my copy of her Back to Black album in Rhythmbox in my Linux laptop, while I was struggling with getting a graphical interface to Subversion working. When I heard her sing, it was [...]

Tags: Highlights · WebTech

Sony Ericsson makes me sing the blues

September 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Inside the junk food section of a downtown department store, I decided to stop listening to my jazz collection at home.
Two weeks back, my family sought shelter in a Cebu City pension house from a scheduled overnight brownout in Lapu-Lapu City. We went to a downtown department store to stock on food and refreshments when [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile · Personal

Zyb goes social with new version

September 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments

Zyb, a web service that provides free online phone data backups, has launched its new version with a better website interface and several new features, including social networking through phone contacts and micro-blogging.
I find Zyb a useful service and use at least once a month to make sure I have an off-site backup of my [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile