Featuring Slife: An “Awareness Browser” for Mac users
Having recently gotten a copy of The Whole Earth Catalog, this time’s del.icio.us links are related to self-help, a quintessential social use of the web. Here’s a roundup of the neatest tools I’ve discovered in recent weeks…
- Slife: Awareness Browser (like lifestreaming on your mac)
Slife is an "awareness browser" which lets you visualize and organize your computer activities. It records what applications you use and what you’re doing with them, then helps you visualize these interactions in a variety of different ways. Includes Slifeshare, which is a service that lets you stay in touch with friends and colleagues by sharing your ongoing activities with them. Keywords: lifestreaming, mac, productivity, history, social, time, tools, trend, visualization, freeware - xtimeline: timelines for everyone!
Finally, an easy to use timeline tool anyone can not only use, but embed on their web sites! Too bad the embeds require humongous width… too large for my blog (via Christy Dena) Keywords: education, history, blogging, tools, academia, research - Maltego: Personal Dataveillance Visualization
I introduced this to a class and they freaked, then started using it to snoop on people. Maltego is a program that can be used to determine the relationships and real world links between: People, Groups of people (social networks), Companies, Organizations, Web sites, Phrases, Affiliations, documents and files Keywords: hacking, investigation, network, search, security, identity, surveillance, infoporn - LifeShaker: Shakable To-Dos (mac)
LifeShaker for Mac OS X is the brand new to-do list software for busy bees everywhere. Uses some kind of grid concept with the ability to shake them or something. Keywords: productivity, mac - fgrab: fastest screen movie capture utility for mac
Capture everything on your screen super-fast, then postprocess your screen movie clips with FastCut, create screencasts, tutorials etc. Non-stop workflow. No export procedure necessary. Keywords: mac, movie, tools, videos - Winclone: Clones your boot camp partition
Winclone lets you clone your bootcamp partition, including Vista cloning (via Peter). Keywords: mac, windows, tools, productivity - Flickr2Facebook: Unofficial Flickr to Facebook Uploader
Yes, it’s that easy. There’s also the Facebook export plugion for iPhoto if you search around. Keywords: facebook, flickr, photos, tools - app2you: Customize. It’s up to you.
Simply sketch the pages of your application and the flow of information across pages using the intuitive, browser-based JustSketch™ interface. app2you™’s sophisticated algorithms automatically infer the database design and logic behind the pages. Keywords: tools, web2.0, webapp, productivity - Google AJAX Search API – AJAX Blog Bar
The Blog Bar is a Google AJAX Search API application that lets you easily add application and page-controled blog search results to your web pages or blog. Keywords: blog, search, widgets, google - Video: Explaining Google Docs
A CommonCraft-like video tutorial explaining how Google Docs makes life easier. Keywords: videos, tutorial, web2.0, google - Printable world map
You can even color it anyway you want! Usable for any occasion (via oyvind solstad) Keywords: geography, generator, tools, print, maps, freeware - MIT’s Exoskeleton is not Just for Lazy Buggers
Perhaps something to add to my sousveillance backpack… Keywords: physics, prosthetics, design - Thanko Gold Ingot USB Hub
Presenting the all new 2007 heavy-duty "Gold Ingot" hub from Thanko. Keywords: geek, wishlist, usb, gadgets, fashion, design - OpenCourseWare @ Tokyo Institute of Technology
Like MIT, Tokyo Institute of Technology has their own OpenCourseWare program. Well designed site invites you to listen to what they have to offer. Keywords: education, free, japan, learning, online, opensource, teaching
