Garys Tech Thoughts

My views and experience about various things – some work related and some not

Interesting note on the use of Wikis for projects.

I came across this site tonight and thought it was worth posting the link to it so that I and others can go through some of the concepts and exemplar pages at some point.

October 11, 2007 Posted by gms4175 | Wikipedia | | No Comments Yet

Interesting Applications for OS X

I found a few nice applications recently, either heard about through RSS feeds or Podcasts I listen to.

Joost, currently in beta, is great for gathering together lots of media channels on the web and allowing you to browse by category or search for content.  Definitely worth a look at.

Radioshift from Rogue Amoeba is also good if you like to listen to web radio and want to record programs and drop the recorded programs into iTunes.  Good search capability too.

For those of you who get PDF documents and want some way to read them and comment on them in the “margin” then Skim is for you.  There is also integration with other document types - see the web page and online documentation for more information.

If, like me, you regularly take your Mac Laptop between different networks each with their own settings needed, then you meed to handle that in a smart way.  MarcPolo is an application that allows you to switch locations by setting rules based on a number of different criteria.  I’ve been using this for some time and find it works great for me.

More application information soon . . .

October 11, 2007 Posted by gms4175 | Apple, Mac OS X | | 1 Comment