Lookout Searches Outlook and Files
By leelefever on March 04, 2004 - 11:50pm
OK, I'm pretty psyched about Lookout. It's a search bar for Outlook:
If you use Newsgator, you'll need to install a patch. Found the fix in the Lookout support forums (notice the RSS feed for the forums- they're going to be on most forums soon.)
Via: Scobelizer
View With CommentsNew Tool: Create RSS Feeds via Email
By leelefever on February 02, 2004 - 2:20pm
As many of you may know- RSS is a way for you to "subscribe" to a web site so that you are notified whenever something new is posted. More and more sites are creating RSS "feeds" that allow you to subscribe to them without providing an email address. You need a newsreader to "subscribe".(More on RSS basics here)
This entry will describe how you can create an RSS feed and then post information to the feed by sending an email to a specific address.
View With CommentsWeb Conferencing Jungle Tour
By leelefever on December 18, 2003 - 7:06pm
I went into the jungle today with a group of folks led by Robin Good (aka Luigi Canali De Rossi) of MasterNewMedia.org.
Of course, the jungle is just a metaphor. It was a pretty incredible cross-platform experience that led us through a number of web conferencing platforms. There were about 8-10 folks from all over the world- Italy, S. Africa, Portugal, US and Canada. Robin wanted to show us alternatives to expensive platforms like WebEx and the former PlaceWare- now Live Meeting.
View With CommentsNewsGator Rocks for RSS
By leelefever on November 21, 2003 - 3:37pm
So I'm just starting to use NewsGator for reading RSS feeds and so far I'm really impressed. I use Outlook to manage a lot of information and having the RSS feeds come into Outlook folders is key for me.
I haven't really tried that many alternatives, but it's surely the best I've seen so far. I think it takes us one-step closer to having an tool that makes RSS easy for the non-geeks out there.
If you're not sure what RSS is, go here.
View With CommentsNetScan's Graphical Analysis of Newsgroups
By leelefever on November 11, 2003 - 12:18pm
A while back I wrote about Marc Smith, Sociologist at Microsoft Research who is studying Usenet Newsgroups. I met and saw a presentation by Marc recently and I've been keeping up with NetScan- the tool they use to analyze newsgroups. I've been impressed with some of the ways they are graphically representing the growth and activity of the newsgroups over time. The screenshot below came from this TreeMap.
Open Source Demo Directory
By leelefever on November 05, 2003 - 11:50am
This site seems to be a good resources if you're looking to demo open source products. It has demos for Content Management Systems, Weblogs, Groupware, Forums, eLearning.
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Cool Tool: An IE Browser-Based Spell-Checker
By leelefever on August 06, 2003 - 12:00pm
ieSpell- Spell Checker for Input Text Boxes
I'm going to use this little free tool- any time you use Internet Explorer to post a message, you can use this tool to check spelling. So handy...
From the site...
View With CommentsWeb Conferencing Tools and Reviews
By leelefever on July 23, 2003 - 11:15am
When I first started getting into online communities in the late 90's, I heard about David Woolley's Thinkofit.com as a resources for reviewing and linking to forum software tools.
Since that time, David has continued to add onto the site and I was particularly interested to see that he has similar resources for Real Time Conferencing, also known as "web conferencing".
Using these tools, people can participate in a conference call and view a presentation on their computer screen at the same time. The presentation on their screen is controlled remotely- all they need to do is watch.
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