Entries Tagged as 'Free services'

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

Windows Live services coming to Nokia phones

August 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Nokia has announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to provide a suite of Windows Live services “specifically designed for Nokia devices.” Users of compatible S60 devices in selected countries can now download Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Contacts and Windows Live Spaces.
Users of Nokia Series 40 devices will be able to [...]

Tags: Free services · Mobile · free software

Enhancing blog comments with avatars

August 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

I’ve just re-enabled Gravatar support for this blog. Gravatar, for globally-recognized avatar, is a service that publishes avatars or graphic representations of people who comment in your blog. Check out my previous posts to see gravatar in action.
I used the service some time last year but stopped it after a few months when I encountered [...]

Tags: Blog design · Blogs · Free services

Reinvigorate releases desktop software to track website visits in real time

June 13th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Website metrics service reinvigorate has released a software that allows bloggers and site owners to view visits in real time on their desktop. Snoop, the desktop client, streams website visits and data. As soon as someone visits your website or goes to another page, you’d know about it.
SNOOP. The desktop client of reinvigorate allows [...]

Tags: Blogs · Free services · WebTech · free software

Zooomr Mark III now live: Get unlimited photo storage; sell images

June 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments

My favorite photo sharing website, Zooomr, is now live after weeks of being down. The two-man website had upgraded its services to Mark III, a new version that had been months in the planning and contains a lot of new features.
Among the features of Mark III is the ability of users to sell their photos [...]

Tags: Free services · Internet · Photography

Ghost in the machine

May 12th, 2007 · 35 Comments

I found the Sun.Star Cebu newsroom abuzz yesterday over a website that seemed to know a lot of details, even intimate ones, about people and things. When I entered the newsroom, I found reporters, editors, librarians, and newsroom assistants gathered around TV host Jude Bacalso, the paper’s lifestyle editor, who was entering questions and getting [...]

Tags: Free services · Internet · Personal · Wiki