Category Archives: Web Applications

Where The Girls Are At

Hum… Ever been interested in having a real-time dashboard of the lesbian nightlife activity in New York City? Here is the story. On Sunday night I went out to a bar… the party was a bit dead and I thought… wouldn’t it be nice if I could have checked out how many people were there [...]

Jolicloud: A New Operating System For Netbooks

Quick post about Jolicloud. First they are French and second, I haven’t had the opportunity to test the product yet. Such a product was expected to see the light at some point, in the line of Zoho, Piwik and all the other existing online tools (I am only citing the ones I respect but obviously [...]

A Nice Little GTD Application (Getting Things Done)

The other day I discovered this little GTD (“Getting Things Done”) application. It is very raw at its current stage but certainly usable to manage your projects. It is very easy. You have projects and within projects, you have tasks. Pretty basic. You also have what they call “content”, which stand for the categories (which [...]

Enzo by Humanized – The Perfect Desktop Assistant

Humanized strives to simplify user interfaces. Their applications allow you to quickly accomplish a couple of things: – open a folder, URL, document, – calculate a string, – define a word (/translate), – shut down your pc and much more. Simply press the caps lock and the command shown above will appear. As you start [...]

Jonathan Harris – Playing With Visualizations

A while back, Cara wrote about 10×10 in her blog. Interesting concept but always thought its design and fluidity could see some improvements. Last week I was reminded of the existence of the Webby Awards. This weekend, I had one of these moment where creativity was just not there and I was looking everywhere for [...]

Create Fantastic Maps With CloudMade

Just wanted to talk about CloudMade, a small start up company based in London. They have a great APIs for your map projects. They use OpenStreetMap‘s data, which you can help map the world: get your own GPS system and you’re on the go. [You can also use OpenStreetMap's APIs but it is not as [...]