New Twitter tool for the iPhone

I bought Reportage on the recommendation of a Canadian Web site today. If you haven’t heard of it, Reportage is a Twitter client for the iPhone/iPod Touch. On the face of it, that doesn’t sound too interesting, but Reportage does a couple of cool things that make it worth a look if you’re a journalist: [...]

Using Smartphones in the medical field

Who says the iPhone is just a fancy toy? This article from the Washington Post is an insightful look into the iPhone’s use in the medical field. It’s a good reminder of exactly how much can be done with one small little handheld. When I have more time, I’m coming in with a brain dump [...]

This may be my new favorite search: Twoogle!

I bet the person who invented Twoogle feels just like the person who discovered chocolate and peanut butter go great together. Just as the name implies, Twoogle searches both Google and Twitter. The handy little split window shows me tweets in one window and my Google search in the other. Talk about a handy tool! [...]

An easy way to help with Web readability

This isn’t technically a tip to save time, unless you count reading time as time spent when you could be getting things done. Here’s an easy way to make any Web site more readable. Although we wish they would, web designers don’t always think about our poor eyes when they consider body type — or [...]

A new and improved banner

I’ve been playing a bit more with GIFmation, and I found a few more fun specs in it when I created a second, better-designed banner. This one takes advantage of GIFmation’s free software a little bit more: The free version allows you to use up to three frames at a time. Any more than that, [...]

GIFmation for the Mac rocks

Here’s the challenge I was presented with: We wanted to display a banner on the home page of our Web site to promote ColumbiaTomorrow.com, an RJI project designed to be the go-to site to learn about growth and development issues in Columbia. I’ve been playing with the idea in the back of my head for [...]