Category Archives: Quick

Ebuyer Beta: Preview

By Bish | Published: 07/03/2006 – 19:32 | Posted in Quick, Reviews, Web | Comments (0)

I got invited by Dan Dukeson to take a look at the Ebuyer beta site that is open to the public and though a work in progress its interesting to see where they are pushing and improving the ‘public face’ of the company. Ebuyer is an international online retailer specialising in computer and consumer electronics whose products could be considered amongst the most competitively priced. In the last few years they have also vastly improved the customer service regarding returns and should be among the first places to look when upgrading your PC or setting up that home cinema. 

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Newsvine Goes Live

By Bish | Published: 07/03/2006 – 19:16 | Posted in News, Quick, Web2.0 | Comments (0)

A little late (on my part) but Newsvine came out of beta on March 1st. The social news site is first class in my opinion and have to say that it has become one of my (almost) daily reads for news, tech and gaming. Check out my first impressions and fears here and if you haven’t already signed up then what are you waiting for? 

 

9 Rules Design Podcast

By Bish | Published: 28/02/2006 – 22:40 | Posted in Quick, Web, Web Design | Comments (2)

9 Rules have posted Episode 1 of what looks like becoming a Design podcast series. Matt Cahill, Matt Oliphant, Bryan Veloso, and Lea Alcantara take a look at ‘Personal Branding’ and it is well worth a listen. Frustratingly though, they break the podcast golden rule, no podcast rss feed or link to Itunes! Maybe in time for the next episode……

Site Improvements: Integrating Cocomment and Rojo

By Bish | Published: 23/02/2006 – 21:21 | Posted in Quick, Software, Web, Wordpress | Comments (1)

Two great services that I am a big fan of are Cocomment and Rojo. Cocomments is a way to keep track of comments that you leave on blogs and review them at a later date. By clicking on a shortcut in your browser before you post, your comment is tracked along with any subsequent conversations you may have. Now out of beta and freely available for sign up, the service works well and will become more common place the as more people find out about this valuable service. For convenience sakes I have added the JavaScript provided to my theme, in theory eliminating the need for the browser button when posting comments on my site. Somebody want to try this out?

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Integrate Google Desktop Search into Thunderbird?

By Bish | Published: 22/02/2006 – 20:44 | Posted in Internet, Personal, Quick, Software | Comments (4)

I have now have seven email accounts operating from Thunderbird – the excellent, free email client from Mozilla. As you can imagine sometimes recalling what email was from a particular account can become quite tiresome. As good as Thunderbird is as a client, the search facility is ancient and the indexing of Google’s Desktop Search offers exactly what I want (privacy issues aside), instantly . I am not a fan of the sidebar that comes with the Google desktop, it reminds me too much of the Office sidebar they inflicted on us a few years ago, and floating deskbar just gets in the way. While the deskbar is more possibility it is still intrusive, what I really need is an extension to integrate my Google desktop search directly into Thunderbird. There is implementations of this available for Outlook and even Outlook Express but an extension could be done so much better and seamlessly integrate into this great app at the same time. Is there anything out there?

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