Yes, it’s that time of year; time for another of those unoriginal and I’m sure largely unread review posts. So without further ado I give you my review of books and music for 2008.
Books
Since I stopped commuting by train my reading time has reduced markedly; I try to read at night but invariably leave it [...]
Archive for December, 2008
2008 Review
Wordpress 2.7
14 Dec 2008
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A few days ago I upgraded davidhughes.org to the newly released, and latest version of WordPress: 2.7.
When I saw the first shots of the new dashboard and IA for WordPress 2.7 I was concerned that the changes were too great and perhaps not being done for the right reasons: change for changes sake. But having [...]
Unblab: Brief Email for Busy People
10 Dec 2008
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Last night, via the wonders of Twitter, I came across unblab a brilliant new take on the email interface.
Looks interesting.
On their website unblab say:
Our entire email client was created with the hope that you will use it as little as possible. Feel free to:
1. Get more done in less time
2. Enjoy using your email [...]
Google Adds Tasks to Gmail
09 Dec 2008
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You may have seen the news that Google has added a tasks application to its Gmail email service.Well the even better news is that since they recently added Google Labs to Google Apps email I get to play with it also.
I’ve tried a number of task apps over the years and not found one that [...]