Save your printer cartridge…just click!
Filed under: Conversation, Green computing, New Web Creations, Web services
A new beta web service Print what you like.com, from developer Jonathan Koomjian, offers users a simple, elegant solution to printing web pages and content – by allowing visitors to remove images, text and page layout.
You can resize fonts, widen selected areas and generally use the very intuitive interface to create a print-friendly document.
Changes, saved as templates allow you to revisit and change the document you have created.
Combine multiple web edits to print a single, larger document too. Use the site tools and simply press print.
We liked it…thanks Jonathan and we look forward to developments to come. Save your print cartridge with this service.
You can visit the Print What You Like website here.
Our Thirdsector Web home page is here.
Backblaze – unlimited online back-up for 5$ a month…
Filed under: Conversation, Green computing, New Web Creations
Newly launched this week, Backblaze offers users unlimited back-up for just five dollars US a month.
Backblaze automatically scans your hard drive, after downloading the small Backblaze utility, then proceeds to back-up everything. Yes everything.
Users get the option to alter what is backed up and how you retrieve your data. You can even order CD/DVD copies of your back-ups. (Although I suspect this may only be for US customers only).
The sign up is fast and simple and the process is automatic, with the caveat that a full hard drive can take a whole week to transfer to the Backblaze secure servers.
Still, in a market that is getting more crowded by the day, Backblaze’s simple proposition, ease of use and cost per gigabyte of storage means that if you’re looking to auto-save that precious data – Backblaze could be the one.
You can find the Backblaze page here.
Alternatives do include Mozy, with a free storage account available.
You can find the Thirdsector web home page here.
Windows Desktop 5.8 released
Google have just released their Desktop application for Windows vers. 5.8.
According to the official Google Blog this new version has increased speed by 50% and now has additional security features.
The desktop, when loaded will check automatically for any Google widgets you are using to see if they are interfering with your PC’s performance.
The application will close five times faster than before and will open twice as fast, Google say. The Google desktop recycles processes internally, rather like the new Chrome browser, adding to application efficiency.
So if you are a Google Desktop user and want faster widgets, better clocks and notepads and use Google to index your hard drive and emails for searches…you can download the new Windows Desktop from Google here.
Read the original Google Official Blog article here.
Link to Google Desktop download.
You can visit the Thirdsector web homepage here.
Updated scripts in your client control panel….
Our client control panel has been updated. If you are a Thirdsectorweb client who maintains their own domain, you can now self install the following scripts from your client control panel.
These new versions supercede previous control panel access entries.
If you have any difficulties installing these scripts please contact Thirdsector web support as usual.
New versions are available of the following….
WordPress, PHPCoin, Joomla, Locked Area Lite, Mambo, RoundCube, Website Search, AWStats, ZenCart, Openads and Web Calendar.
You can see the Thirdsector web home page here.
OpenOffice 3.0 candidate now available
As regular readers will know, we use OpenOffice as our default system in the office and on our laptops.
We cannot exist, like everyone else now, without access to Microsoft and Google products, as well as a host of other on-line services that support our work.
However, for ease of use, for a better integrated experience when moving images and data across applications – in our opinion nothing can beat OpenOffice.
Version 3 has a new interface, loading a bit quicker than before and offering direct access to templates and existing documents.
The suite now supports Office 2007 documents, with users being able to add MS Access files to Writer. Multiple users can also collaborate on the same spreadsheet.
A useful upgrade to this versatile and easy to use suite.
You can download the new version from the OpenOffice download page.
As this is a release candidate, prior to a formal version launch, we recommend that you do not rely on it entirely for production purposes. For those interested OpenOffice users it’s a great insight into the future of OO.
You can see the Thirdsector web home page here…
New server transfers…
Filed under: Conversation, Thirdsector Systems, Web services
We are having our webmail functions transferred to new servers from midnight on Friday (4th September 2008).
This means that access may be down for a few minutes, with some delayed response times for a couple of hours following.
Improving service levels from the Thirdsector team.
See our home page at Thirdsector Web here.
Google is Chrome coloured…
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
Google have launched their own web browser in beta, called Chrome.
Lightweight and fast, we tested it on our office laptops still running XP/SP2 and were pleased with the performance of this new entrance into the browser market.
Chrome has a popular pages displayed function, very similar to Opera with its speed dial and we like the ability to create application shortcuts to services directly on the desktop.
The incognito tab selection allows maximised privacy during a browser session, by tab, with the ability to see how much machine resource is being used by each tab simply by right-clicking the tab bar space at the top of the browser window.
Chrome has some new tweaks that will suit a lot of browser users, and if minimalist display and max performance are your thing then Chrome will do it.
You can download the Chrome beta from the Google search home page.
You can visit the Thirdsectorweb home page here.
Directed Edge – a new take on ‘pedia’ searches…
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Directions
Directed Edge isn’t a totally new resource any more, but we have been using it for research purposes and find the depth, clarity and subtlety of the results very good indeed.
A prototype service from Directed Edge a company involved in developing recommendation engines for social and e-commerce networks.
The ‘Wikipedia’ search tool is a demonstration of their technology. We think it stands up pretty well as a distinctive service too. Helping to draw users to their site and to show how it can work for your data.
(We don’t have shares in Directed Edge …honest)
See a Directed Edge search result for Microsoft here. We like the core information, but also the useful links to other articles, people and additional resources.
We think it can provide a great jumping off point for a web research or writing project.
You can visit the Thirdsectorweb home page here….
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