End of semester clean-up

The semester is winding down.  Before you pile everything up and forget about it for the break, here are a few things to clean up now (while you still remember what it all is). Get rid of drafts -  Keep the final version of all your papers and projects, at least until your grades are posted, but delete and/or throw out any drafts you may have laying around.  They add no value and clutter up your hard drive and your...

Student Tool: Increase Your Organization with 30Bo...

This web 2.0 app is very unique. It is sort of a webOS/calendar/social networking mashup. The calendar is great, a nice and usable UI, and it is very snappy - not something you see in all web 2.0 apps. 30Boxes calendar looks to me like a matured project, as everything is very fluent and sensible. You can add events at the click of a mouse button, and have reminders sent to you via SMS (depending on if your provider...

Google Reader Finally Adds Search!

I woke up to check my feeds this morning, and noticed that Google has added a search box to their popular feed reading app Google Reader. If you have ever used Google Reader, you know that it is an exceptional online reader, but one of it’s biggest flaws was the lack of a built in search. The best work-around was to make a custom search engine in Google Co-op, but this had to be updated each time you subscribed to...

Save Apps for Future Reference with Del.icio.us

I truly believe that we are right in the middle of the second dot-com boom, with web apps popping up all over the place, competing to be more useful to you, so that you will in turn use them. If you read blogs like TechCrunch, Appscout, or Lifehacker, your inbox is probably flooded with profiles and reviews of new apps, all promising to be the solution for some problem or another. The thing is, a lot of the time you see a...

Using Google Apps for Family Email

Google Apps is a useful service by Google which allows businesses and organizations with their own domain to use google service such as google mail, calendar, and start page. I spent a couple minutes moving Gearfire’s email accounts over to google, because I much prefer the gmail interface and storage over the generic-feeling webmail that comes from my host. I was relaxing one night, and overheard my mom complaining to...

Myndology Notebook Review

I saw an interesting company called Myndology which sells disc-based notebook systems, similar to Rollabind or Circa. I emailed them and tried to get a free sample to review on Gearfire, but alas, I had to purchase my own notebooks. I guess I’m just not popular enough yet… anyways… The disc-bound concept Myndology is a company that sells disc notebook systems. For anyone who does not know what those are, you...