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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Whether you’re artistically inclined or not, sometimes you just need to whip up an illustrative or entertaining image for a blog post or presentation. The tools on this list help you generate respectable graphics in a jiffy — design talent optional! Most of the tools on this list are web-based and as easy to use as filling in a web form. We’ve added a couple of desktop applications that make visual communication a lot quicker and easier, even for those of us without a ton of graphic design skills. Advising people to the dangers of the situation has never been so easy.
I've written enough posts about hacks for my Nokia and BlackBerry. Now it's time for my iPhone and an email hack that I've been working on. I've been using a system that I built to feed me buzz from the web on to my phone through push messages (ie alerts that look like SMS). Here's what I have built, how it works, and how I'm going to use it. First - how I'm going to use it. I'm going to use it to kill email.
Thanks to Gareth Beck , Peter Cunningham, Paul Lock , Sarah Platt , George Hopkin , Christopher Jenkins-Powell, Mike Parry and Marc Duke for the suggestions.
Twitter is nothing short of a phenomenon. At the very least, it connects people to each other through a rich and active exchange of ideas, thoughts, observations, and vision in one, highly conducive ecosystem (known as the Twitterverse). The social fibers that weave together this unique micromedia network is strengthened by the expertise, respect, trust, admiration, and commonalities. These fabrics bind the people who breathe life and personality into the global community as well as fueling the disparate micro communities that ultimately extend across the Long Tail . Of all of the social tools and services that are pervasive throughout our digital society, only a select few communities can boast the pseudo fanatical conviction that Twitter ‘s users unanimously possess.