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Etsy – the handmade market place

I ran accross this earlier today. Its a site for selling handmade goods. Very well organized and easy to use with some cool products. My biggest complaint is that the clothing isn’t browsable by mens and womens styles. Here’s their brief definition of what Etsy is: Etsy is an online marketplace [ READ MORE ]

Google office productivity suite?

Ok, so I right before I posted about writely, a friend sent me a link to another upcoming product from google: http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html . Thats right, not only does google have a web based word processor, they also have a spreadsheet solution. Lets compare: Microsoft (Commercial) Open Source (Free) Google (Free, web based) MS Office OpenOffice.org Mozilla Google Word processor Word Writer Writely [ READ MORE ]

Writely as a blog editor

A while back I posted an article in the tools blog of the dev site (http://jesstedder.com/dev/blogs/tools ) a post on writely , a web based, ajax intensive, word processor. It turns out it can be used as an editor for your blog posts as well, I’m actually composing this post using writely and [ READ MORE ]

Manual mower

News flash I mowed my yard. This is my third summer in the house and I finally mowed my own yard. I bought a manual reel mower, which doesn’t use gas, make an awful racket, or spew noxious fumes. It was suprisingly easy to use. Almost a zen experience. Then I [ READ MORE ]

New blog

Well, I feel a little like a traitor, but I evaluated several blogging software packages and I’ve decided to go with wordpress. This is my personal home page, all my non-technical blogging will be here. For the technical stuff, head on over to the dev community [ READ MORE ]

testing gallery integration

Testing the gallery integraiont, should see the sample image here:613 [ READ MORE ]

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! [ READ MORE ]