Archive for 'Interesting Finds' Category
Yahoo! pipes for RSS mashup
9 April 2007Xavier Llorà sent an IM about Yahoo! pipes. Looks like a pretty cool tool (check out the editor) to remix your favorite RSS feeds. An overview of pipes is available here. See a tutorial on how to use pipes here. Other tutorials are available here. One drawback, you need to have a yahoo login to use it.
Resources for scienfitic presentations
2 April 2007GECCO is coming up soon and it means it is time to prepare presentation slides and posters. I was looking around for pointers for making good slides and posters and found very good ones. Many of the guidelines were for business presentations, but I also found quite a few of them for scientific presentations:
Wordpress themes
1 April 2007I was looking for some simple looking wordpress themes for creating a webpage for an academic workshop. Here are some that I liked from SilentBits [Top themes, Non-blog style themes, 3 new wordpress themes], Smashing magazine [83 beautiful wordpress themes, 8 fresh wordpress themes], Scribez, and Wordpress theme viewer, in no particular order.
Firefox addons
1 April 2007Here are some useful addons for firefox.
- Zotero
- Scribefire/Performancing
- Map+
- Share2me (Disclaimer: I consult for Nextumi)
- Jeteye
- Clipmarks
- Cooliris previews
- BlueOrganizer
- Yoono
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources…
ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.
View a Yahoo! map of a selected address without having to open a new window or tab.
With the share2me browser plug-in you can share your web favorites with your friends faster than ever.
By using Jeteye Jetpaks to package and share the Web, you can improve the way you see, share, organize, interact with and communicate with friends, colleagues, co-workers, customers, suppliers or anyone else you come in contact with online.
With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.
Cooliris Previews gives you the power to browse and share Web links and rich media faster. Just mouse over any link, and the Cooliris preview window immediately appears to show you the content. To email it, just click.
he BlueOrganizer is smart browsing and personalization technology for Firefox. It makes the browser aware of everyday objects like books, movies, wines, restaurants and much more. The BlueOrganizer helps you quickly find relevant information on many popular sites, collect your favorite things, manage them and instantly find related information.
Yoono instantly suggests similar sites, blog notes and people sharing the same interests while you are surfing, for each page you open. Zero effort required - no more tagging, typing keywords or changing interface. Let Yoono bring you the best that others have discovered. Yoono is easy, fun, addictive and designed for everyone.