New Google Service: Google Page Creator

I found this terrific web page maker from Google.

It's absolutely fantastic, gives you 100mb of storage space, and is so intuitive to use! It means that I can spend my free time actually putting content on my site, rather than fiddling with the layout!

I spose its a lot like using a blog really, only that its for a whole website and its new! Check it out at pages.google.com.

Or you can look at my half-hearted attempt at a site, Mooching through the digital era.

Remember the milk!

Recently I found the niftiest web based application I have found since gmail. You can find it at rememberthemilk.com and it will help you to never forget anything again.

But why should I use this, you ask. Well the answer is simple, the interface. Undeniably the greatest feature of this service is the simple yet powerful, intuitive yet attractive UI to help you complete all your tasks. Without even looking cluttered it allows you to store tasks with different importances, organise them into different lists which are completely customisable, and share or send them to your contacts if you think they need to know.

It's got far too many cool features to go through them all now, but I have to outline my favourite so far which is shared lists. They allow me to choose some contacts and share a list with them. We all now have access to the list and can add more tasks as we need to. Overall it's great for projects or just to know what your friends are up to.

Obviously security on this service is paramount and no one can view any of you tasks without you allowing them to first, so don't worry about that.

For a full list of features just head to the learn more pages in remember the milk's website.

Firefox 1.5 Released!!!

Finally, after months and months of beta and RC testing mozilla has released
Mozilla Firefox 1.5. While there are too many new features to go over now, a
quick look at their firefox page will tell you what you need to know if
you're considering switching to firefox.

The mozilla homepage has moved to http://www.mozilla.com.

Firefox 1.5 RC3

It's quickly coming to that time of the year when a new version of firefox is released (actually this is only the second big version ever). Currently we're up to version 1.5 RC3, which is more release candidates than I think I've ever seen any software have. I'm accounting this one on the new update system in Firefox. I absolutely love the system, although understandably it's still very bug laiden. I hope for their sake that by the final release it is fully repaired because otherwise that could be a real problem for new users who don't have the patience to wait for all the problems to be fixed.

In the meantine RC3 is working alright. I've had a couple of crashes although I'm blaming that on some themes and extensions. Still, Firefox 1.5 is looking promising. It can be downloaded at mozilla.org

U3 USB Disks

Ever wondered what it would be like to walk up to any computer, stick in your USB disk and in about a minute have it magically become just like yours at home. Well the new U3 standard is a step towards doing that.

This great new product will hopefully allow some enterprises the ability to have a group of desktops, as a pose to laptop computers, and still allow people to treat each computer as their own. The concept involves running a special menu application upon plugging in the USB disk, and then selecting from what programs you want to run. Some will link the mail clients (such as Outlook) to your USB so that you can send and receive email without having to setup an account again.

Other popular uses would include graphic editing, web browsing and financial management. In the future it is hoped that a Linux version will be made available. At the current point in time the only way to use U3 is to buy a special USB disk which supports the U3 standards, so it isn't for everyone!

Check out their website at www.u3.com.