March 19th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Personal
Grand Effect is a small tech blog network I recently started with the help of another founding member, David Peralty of eXtra For Every Publisher. Our focus is only tech news - whether it’s computer tips, web apps, software, blogging, or social media, you can find it here on Grand Effect. We’re not trying […]
March 17th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Web Apps, widgets
Love widgets? Can’t get enough? Then check out this collection of widget web sites for finding and/or creating your own widgets for use on your site, blog, social network, or desktop. Did I leave any great ones off? Let me know in the comments!
Search/Directories
Cleverhippo - widget search engine
Flickerdna - flickr widgets
Goodwidgets - […]
March 14th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, Blogging
TumblWeed is an Adobe AIR/Flash app for bloggers who use the Tumblr blog platform. With TumblWeed, you don’t have to open an web browser and go online to blog - just use this desktop application. There isn’t a WYSIWYG blog editor, but you can drag and drop photos and audio files to upload them […]
March 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Mobile, Video, Web Apps
Bambuser is a new service that lets you broadcast live video from your mobile phone onto your website or blog. You can also use a web cam, but that’s not nearly as cool.
To get started with this new, alpha service, do the following:
Install the bambuser application on your phone. Download it here or point […]
March 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Google
The blogger over at bavatuesdays just discovered a little-known feature in Google Docs - a "publish to blog" option. To use this feature, open up your document, click on the "Publish" tab (on far right), and you’ll see an "publish to blog" option. The first time you use this feature, you’ll need to set […]
February 25th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Photography, flickr, tools
PictoBrowser is a web app that lets you quickly and easily create photo galleries that can be added to your website or blog. To use PictoBrowser, just click the PictoBrowser logo on any PictoBrowser you see or go online to their website, enter your flickr username, choose your set, tag, or group, and the HTML […]
November 26th, 2007 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Web 2.0, Web Apps
HelloTxt is a website that lets you post to multiple microblogging services at once. The supported services include Twitter, jaiku, Pownce, meemi, tumblr, yappd, and more. If you’re a member of more than one of these services, you know that updating multiple services at once can be time-consuming and usually not even worth your time. […]
November 23rd, 2007 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Mobile
Here’s a Blackberry rumor to drool over: supposedly, an touchscreen, iPhone-like Blackberry line is coming in 2008. According to the rumor, the Blackberry 9000 series will be a touch-screen device with a small form factor. Unlike traditional Blackberrys, the 9000 series won’t have the half-screen/half-keyboard look. What it will have, however, is an upgraded multimedia […]
November 14th, 2007 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Email, RSS
If you have one or two blogs that you are addicted to, you may find this service useful: SendMeRSS. Unlike an RSS email subscription like service like mine, which emails you a digest of recent blog posts, SendMeRSS will deliver individual posts as they go live in a single email to an email address […]
November 8th, 2007 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Bookmarking
ShareThis is a web service that lets you instantly access all of your profiles, blogs, friends, and contacts for easy sharing of web content. Now, the company has just announced a new version of the popular ShareThis button, ShareThis 2.0. The button, designed for content publishers, lets your site’s visitors easily share your content […]
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