Google tweaks Apps interface
DesignGoogle has tweaked the design for the Apps toolbar. It’s minor but it tidies up the look and feel of the Apps interface and moves aways lightly from their simple text/links approach.
Dropbox for Teams
Web ApplicationsI love Dropbox. It’s one of those apps you just install and forget (well, actually if you run it on a laptop with Windows 7 64 bit OS it has a wee issue with not letting your laptop sleep properly but I’m sure they’ll get that fixed). There are other perfectly good sync options like [...]
Uber friendly forms
Design, WordpressI’ve been looking for a backup solution for my ever increasing number of WordPress sites. I’m probably going to use BackupBuddy from the fine folks at iThemes but as I was searching I came across a beta service called Vaultpress which looks good. But most of all I liked their sign up form (well, maybe [...]
LinkedIn recently started promoting their new Share button. It’s pretty much like Facebook ‘Like’ for grownups. I haven’t put any of these buttons on a site yet – I’ll look at adding them as part of overall social share buttons. But alongside the LinkedIn ‘Follow’ buttons they do start to really help with promoting your [...]
SlideNote
Web Design & DevelopmentTom McFarlin has released SlideNote as a WordPress plugin. It adds a nice sliding note to a page or post – perfect for creating alerts, calls to action or highlights on your site. Now that it’s a plugin it’s easy to add to your WordPress site, either as a widget or by using shortcodes for [...]
Google Analytics simply delivered
Web ApplicationsIf you’re running Google Analytics and you just need a simple, plain English overview of your weekly stats – Metric Mail sends you a weekly PDF by email with your dashboard stats. Now you can do this thorugh Google Analytics already but where this service is useful is if you want to circulate the report [...]
Backing up your data in the cloud
Web ApplicationsYou used to have to make sure you backed up everything on your desktop to the cloud, but now if you’re using Google Apps or Gmail plus all the social services for storing photos and messages – you now need to make sure you’re keeping a local copy of all your data. Whilst Google and [...]
JUMP – Econsultancy
Digital MarketingHere’s a free plug for the JUMP event being run by Econsultancy. In their words: JUMP is all about joining up online and offline marketing to get better results. It’s for digital and offline marketers. Wednesday 13th October, Old Billingsgate, London Join 40 international experts and the brightest minds in on and offline marketing for [...]
Browser Icons – Paul Irish
DesignSome nice, simple browser icons from Paul Irish. Perfect for putting on your website and insisting people upgrade from IE6…just as we’ll be doing very soon. Sadly some corporate sites are the worst offenders – remind me why IT would do that?
Six core tactics for social media managers – Econsultancy
Social MediaSome sensible thoughts from Matt Owen at Econsultancy. We’ve been starting small and careful at www.twitter.com/investecam_uk and we’re seeing steady growth. In particular we’re concentrating on quality followers so that we’re confident that the content we tweet is hitting the people it’s relevant for. It’s important to just start participating and see it where takes [...]
