While I’m involved in various other projects, it’s difficult to find time to write here. A very kind reader, Peter, of my articles elsewhere in the blogosphere suggested I post links to my other writing here. So I’ll start off with a list and after this post individual snippets and links.
Currently I’m writing weekly at […]

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One thing “experts” have been saying for at least a year is that video editing on mobile phones will be huge. Well, I don’t just enjoy being a contrarian, but when it comes to ridiculous claims against functionality, I enjoy contradicting even more. Beet TV says that both video editing and uploading via mobile phones […]

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Nova Spivack’s definition of Web 3.0 as being a decade (2010-2020) of web technologies is, I think, probably a better one than something nebulous and open to interpretation - such as Web 2.0, which Tim O’Reilly defined but which most people just interpret for themselves. Nova defines Web 3.0 as being the set of technologies […]

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Codswallop has a list of 101 tools to convert rich media files and measurments. This includes video, music, images, documents and more. Categories include:

Mega tools.
Media/ Audio.
Media/ Video.
Images.
Documents/ PDF.

Documents/ Word Processing.
Documents/ Excel.
Documents/ Powerpoint.
Documents/ Drafting.
Documents/ Miscellaneous.
International Standards/ Measurements.

International Standards/ Currency.

International Standards/ Clothing sizes.

Web Development.
Mobile Tools.

I can’t claim […]

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Technophile is my irregular commentary on various technology and web tools of use to freelancers, bloggers and net professionals.

Giant portable hard drives.
One of the problems of being mobile is that if you take a laptop, you’re very limited in disk storage. Maybe you’re using lots of online applications, but sometimes you want to store content […]

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Not sure what’s more popular: images or blog text, but images are definitely a nice addition to blogs. So if you’re considering a camera but don’t want the 21 megapixels of resolution of the new Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III digital SLR, maybe you’d prefer the 12.3 effective megapixels of the Nikon D300 professional DSLR. It’s […]

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Scooped!! CollegeDegree.com (what a great domain name - probably worth millions some day) has a very big list of resources for mindmapping. I’ve been working on a big mindmap review myself but its scope keeps growing out of control. So much for my approach to GTD (Get Things Done). Mine will be an indepth review […]

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What are the three most important tools for online Freelancers and Net Professionals, aka Web Workers? I’d have to say a computer, Internet access, and possibly a cell phone if you are often mobile - in which case you’d want a powerful laptop. If you’re not mobile, you might want to skip a cell phone […]

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When you’re feeling a bit of writer’s block, one thing you can always try is to change your perspective. If you take that advice literally, then you could grab your camera and start clicking.
No camera? Got $8,000? It’ll buy you a sexy new Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III digital camera - not to be confused with […]

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Without Internet access, online workers are, to put it bluntly, screwed. You could use a typewriter to write with and snail mail, but obviously that’s not going to cut it for long. Let’s face it, Internet access is an absolute necessity for some people. And without broadband speeds, your work productivity goes down.
If you live […]

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Yahoo! Pipes, which is a powerful data analysis and RSS feed mashup tool, just got more powerful with the addition of eight new Pipes modules:

Feed Auto-Discovery.
Item Builder.
Loop.
Reverse.
Sub-element.
Tail.
Translate.
String Regex.

In addition, they’ve renamed a few modules and deprecated a couple of others.
To date, I’ve built over 140 Pipes, many of which are covered in tutorials at a […]

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If you’re looking for a Pownce invitation, read carefully. (If you don’t, no invite.) I have 11 invites and none of my online friends seem to want one. So their loss is your gain. If you want a free invite, drop a comment in this post and put something like “I’m 1st” if you’re the […]

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This post may seem a bit of a divergence, considering the topics covered here so far. However, data analysis is a part of blogmastering/ webmastering, and this post is in line with my original plans for this site. If it’s not something that interests you, no problem. It’s here if you take an interest in […]

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