A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
25 March 2004
I am awash in links to software I’ve been meaning to try:
* Installspy (yet another spyware detector), noticed at Lockergnome. * FirelogXP (ICS log analyser), also via Lockergnome. * Outlook Junk Filter Upgrade via Chris Meirick * Newsgator service release. * Markdown markup processor for MT via Aaron Swartz (tho I am already a Textile user) * Xbox friends tracker, via Scott Hanselman * Feedburner rss processor, via Martin * Co-citer and Onfolio, both via Scoble, both for organizing my collection of web findings * Artrage paint program via Don Park * A bunch of CSS tweaks at Mandarin Designs, via Weblogg-ed News * Blognavigator, yet another rss reader, via Scoble. * Some math symbol fonts via Lockergnome. * the latest BitTorrent via emergent report * Anagram from Marc’s Outlook on Productivity (Marc has consistently cool stuff) * Ebay RSS feeds via Sebastien Paquet * Style Master, a css editor, from Digital Web Mag. * Windows Installer Cleanup Utility to get rid of annoying install turds, from Lockergnome. * Motherboard Monitor from Lockergnome. * Dodgeit for throwaway email addresses (checkable via RSS!) * Onenote via Marc’s Outlook again. * Knoppix via Matt Croydon and Rich. * some of these recos from Pirillo. * Windows Services for Unix from Anil Dash. * Drag and Drop attachments for OWA via Tosh Meston * Whizfolders to organize writing snippets. * Icecast streaming media server. * Tasktracker from Marc’s Outlook * Mute filesharing software via Slashdot. * FTPEditor via Betanews.
All these great packages and I haven’t tried a one. Why? I am a huge consumer of software and am generally willing to install anything. The impediment is state management. Increasingly I use 5-6 machines interchangeably on a regular basis – 2 at work thru a KVM, 3 or 4 at home in different places, and public machines at other workplaces, hotels, etc. It is not helpful to have an app installed on just one machine – and it is too time consuming to install it on all. Really I want to install stuff just once, on my webserver, and have it be available on any machine that I work from. I am a bleeding edge PC user but I think this is going to become a more prevalent issue for all consumers…