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Zoundry Raven: Portable blogging client for your flash drive

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Blogging, Freeware There are plenty of applications that let you write blog posts without using the default web interface for Blogger, Wordpress, LiveJournal, or other blog platforms. But most have one limitation - you have to download and install the application on each and every computer you plan to work on. While Zoundry Raven might not have as many features as Windows Live Writer or be as easy to use as ScribeFire, the free Windows tool has one major advantag...

Five Lightweight Apps for Web Trainers and Consultants

Teaching people how to use new tools on the internet is hard. Learning through experience is the most effective method, but it's slow. More and more of us are finding ourselves teaching other people how to use new web apps and services - sometimes professionally. Though you, elite readers, might consider getting excited about apps that are a year or two old to be painfully behind the times, the fact is that there is huge demand for training in use and application of web apps old and new. Below w...

Getting file and line numbers without deploying the PDB files

Outline: Problem Inadequate Solutions A Better Way Step 1: Create the pdb2xml Database Step 2: Query the pdb2xml Database Using the IL Offset Step 3: Have Your Application Log the IL Offset Download the source code and demo Conclusion ---- Problem Enterprise applications will inevitably throw exceptions. The ideal thing to do with these exceptions is to log them, send the results back to the appropriate developer, and then have that developer fix the code. Part of the problem is that the produc...

Gears, BrowserPlus, and Web 3.0, baby

Speculative tech journalism is wrought with some pretty bone-headed predictions. I’m fully aware of that. Every time you toss your hat in the ring to offer your opinion, you’re opening yourself up to the possibility of being as wrong as the guy who said, “No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Despite all of that, I’d like to tell you about what the future of the Web will be. What Web 3.0 might look like. But first, so...

Has Apple Helped Create The Real Web 2.0?

Has Apple helped launch the next generation web? For a long time, many web analysts have been labeling the second web boom (also known as the read-write web) as Web 2.0. Watching the impact of… ... continue reading

Pismo File Mount turns any ZIP or ISO file into a virtual drive

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, FreewareThere are plenty of utilities that will let you mount a disc image as a virtual drive, allowing you to browse the contents without actually burning the image to a disc. But Pismo File Mount is one of the easiest to use that we've seen -- and it has the added benefit of also being able to mount ZIP archives. To install the free Windows utility you just need to download and run the PFM Audit Package found on the Pismo web site. Once the program is installed...

Why the iPhone is the best and worst e-book reader ever

Everyone's already written plenty about the new iPhone 3G's most important feature -- third-party applications -- and I'm amazed at how so many tiny new programs were kept under wraps with nary a leak. But there's one app in particular I'd like to focus on, one that, when I discovered it, nearly knocked me off my chair. (It didn't, though a little later I knocked my original iPhone off the desk and shattered the screen to bits, but that's another story.) Seeing the eReader program icon on the iP...

Cupcake interview with Lauren Bacon and Emira Mears, authors of The Boss of You

Note from Rachel - I've known Lauren and Emira via email/the internet since way back in the days of their site Soapboxgirls, and was thrilled to see they'd written The Boss of You. I've read about half of it so far (not because it's not good, I'm just busy!) and have found it applicable to my life in various ways. I wanted to interview them because of course this blog is about the joy of cupcakes, but it's also about cupcake bakeries and businesses. We often get emails asking us for advice on st...

Google AdWords Allows Deeper Targeting With "Keywords + Placements"

Google announced an exciting feature for AdWords advertisers yesterday. Google explained the feature as, "instead of creating separate campaigns for keywords and placements, you can now include both in any campaign. All ad groups now have tabs for both keywords and placements, and the two can work together to target your ads on the content network." So, if you want to target an ad on my personal blog, which runs AdSense, but only want to show your ad when I talk about SEO or search topics, you c...

ScribeFire QuickAds: Monetize your blog by dragging and dropping ads

Filed under: Business, Internet, Blogging ScribeFire is a Firefox add-on that lets you write blog posts while surfing the web. It provides a WYSIWYG editor that works with most popular blogging software. And it's free. We've always wondered how ScribeFire plans to make money, and now we know. The team recently launched a private beta of ScribeFire QuickAds, a service that makes it easy for anyone to monetize their blogs. All you have to to place ads on your blog is click an ad size and then choo...