Clipmarks Service

Mar 30, 2006 | blog

Don’t know if I had posted about Clipmarks here yet – I know I had on my old blog.  Clipmarks is a neat service that lets you “clip” a section of a web page and archive it to your account on Clipmarks.  It also allows you to tag the clip with information useful to you for future reference.  You can then search on that information at another time.

The service also allows you to share and save your clips by email or by directly saving a file to your computer.  I mainly have been using it for research, where I can later go back and reference the information I’ve found while browsing the web.  Its really easy to use, and does require a plug-in for either Firefox or Internet Explorer.

SBSH Pocket Weather

Mar 18, 2006 | blog

So I’ve been using SBSH’s Pocket Weather (PW) for about a year and a half now – from way before SBSH picked up the product and its creator Adrian Oliver. While I’ve always been fond of the app, it has recently been even more useful then ever.

From its roots as a simple app that grabs the current conditions and forecast off the ‘net, to the current version that is highly configurable with custom radar & satellite maps, animated maps, and large number of locations to configure. The community has embraced it as well with numerous skins, themes, icons, buttons, etc… to help mesh with the overall look a person may be going for on their PPC.

Since I have the T-Mobile MDA, it has become very useful – simply because PW now does not have to connect to my phone over bluetooth and dial the ‘net, the data connection is built in. This of course applies to all such applications that access the Internet, but I’m talking about PW right now. The current conditions now update every 15 minutes, the weather maps every 30 minutes. I can whip out the MDA at any time and give everyone a quick full-featured weather report when needed. Talk about awesome!

This application alone has driven a few people to consider a PPC Phone like the MDA or other HTC Wizard based platform. And don’t forget the integration with SBSH’s PocketBreeze program that allows multiple Today Screen plug-ins to use the same screen space – highly recommended! There is much more but I’d recommend reading a review on Pocket Weather, and visiting the exceptional SBSH support forums for this and all their programs.
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WordPress Spell Checker?

Mar 6, 2006 | blog

Is there a good spell check plug-in for WordPress?  I’ve been looking for one, but have only run across two – one of which states that it “doesn’t play well with WordPress 2”.  Does anyone know of a good spell checker for WordPress?

If I was any good at programing, I’d try my hand at creating one as it seems that there is a shortage of them!

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