Online AJAX tools: Office, editing, sharing, collaboration

zenbe.com
Its far more than a webmail. Create ad-hoc wiki-like pages just by uploading images, photos, videos, adding URLs, text and emails, and then tagging them. With tagged content you can create topic-related pages that list item and share them among collaborators to ease up your work! Innovative! I think it’s better than wiki since creating [...]

Online SEO tools

websitegrader.com
This one rocks! It generates a full report about your site. You enter its URL and after few seconds you get the report.
The report consists of three sections:

On-Page SEO - metadata, heading and image summaries, interior page analysis
Off-Page SEO - domain info, Google PageRank, number of Google indexed pages, last Google crawl date, traffic rank, [...]

Development, Eclipse, Google, Web and other forecasts

While everybody tried to predict what will happen this year, here is stuff that won’t happen in 2008.

It is hard to define what exacly an architecture actually is. Here are some ideas.

Eclipse M4 going online? RAP being wrong, GWT being right?

How to trick user to get him into feeling that a long operation takes shorter [...]

Online tools and AJAX fun

Online charting like Visio
Autodesk made available an interesting online tool for drawing blueprints and schemas. It looks like an AJAX version of popular MS Visio or open source Dia or Kivio. You can draw basic shapes, flowcharts, networks, user interfaces, office/room layouts, furniture and electronic circuits. You can also upload own images to the board [...]

Interesting map mashups

Map Compare by rockstarapps.com allows you to compare Google Maps, MS Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps to learn which one offers the best experiens and functionality and suits your needs the best. It shows the same location using all three technologies on one site. While you navigate one oh them, two others are updated accordingly. [...]

Mouse and keyboard of the future

Microsoft has came up with a pretty cool device that might replace mouse as a pointing device.

Here is the patent entry.
Looks fancy but if that is going to work like a joystick-in-the-air that might be not so useful I’m afraid. Also I doubt it could compete with touchpad screens like iPhone has. And many people [...]

Robots: flying and walking

Boston Dynamics is developing BigDog - a fancy robot for US Army. The robot is able to walk through a forest on his own and can also hold balance when smashed. Here are some cool videos:

Delfly is an insect-like flying robot that looks like a little dragonfly. It is controlled by radio and is equipped [...]

Online mindmaps

I make a lot of notes to keep tracking ideas, todo lists, document outlines, even for my blog posts. My notes tend to have quite hierarchical structure: items are nested with others often several levels deep. For a long time I had been using TWiki installed on localhost at home, but main issue was it [...]

Some articles and links

I’ve just gone through some of interesting links I’ve came across around the web in past few weeks. Now I though it would be great to gather them in one place and share them.
A few articles:

Big Ball of Mud - This is the most popular pattern in software development. Who hasn’t worked on a ball [...]