It’s been a while. A long while. There’s been a lot that I’ve wanted to write about, but life and its craziness has gotten the better of me. I could be an Ike Turner and be all “Sorry, baby, I won’t do it again — I love you! I’ll change, I promise!” but it would be a lie. A vicious lie.
So, instead, I’m contrite. I’m a bad, bad blogger, but I know it. Instead of more penance and self-effacement, I’m just going to throw some cool links at you. These are a few things that I’ve found lately that seriously rock my socks off.
- Blog Bridge — This is an open source, totally free (as in beer) feed reader that is absolutely stunning. Not only does it read the feeds, it allows you to create “guides”, which are groupings of feeds that you can share with others. Why is this cool? Because you can get other people’s guides, sync your guides on the ‘net, and sync your feeds from computer to computer. Sure, you could do it all on a web-based feed reader, but this one is so much more fun to use–you just have to try it.
- SuperDuper! — Not completely free, but dead useful. For macs, this is a backup program that works for “old” macs (powerPC types) and “new” macs (intel-based) and does a beautiful job of backing your stuff up. It’s free if you don’t want to schedule backups, or if you don’t mind not having a backup of your user files, but it’s only $27.95 for the full version.
- Canvas — Hat tip to SupaMB. Canvas is a very cool plugin for WordPress that allows you to have a “drag and drop” interface to design your weblog. Very cool stuff.
- Democracy TV — an open source, free internet television platform. Tons of channels, no boredom.
- Qumana — Sure, I may be behind on this one, but this is a pretty cool desktop blogging application. It works well with WordPress, which is always a plus.
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