Allen Lew’s Thoughts

So I just got a Palm T|X from work at Los Angeles Urban League. One of the downsides of working in this part of LA is there isn’t a lot of free wi-fi points to make use of the Internet capabilities. Meanwhile, my current favorite app for the handheld so far is Google [...]

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A few blog posts about some other software and Internet services that might be useful for starting up a company (or nonprofit).

Read and Write Web’s Software for Virtual Teams
Nick Denton’s (owner of Gawker and Lifehacker) Startup Kit

Evan Williams’s (founder of blogger.com) list of business web apps
Added: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Web 2.0: Top 25 Apps [...]

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Why do cell phones have color screens and yet voicemail prompts are still voice only? For those of us who get the newest phones, we still are stuck with a system from the late ’90s. There’s no reason for this. Fortunately, Apple has done something about it with their visual voicemail feature [...]

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Photoshop CS3 looks really cool. The perspective grid looks amazing. By far that was the best conference I attended.

Most of the conferences I wanted to go to were really full, which really sucks. Hope that means they’re good.

I’m tempted to buy the disk for the conferences I missed from Macworld Encore. [...]

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My job as Computer Resource Specialist for the College Writing Programs of Berkeley has me blogging from the MacWorld Expo. I’m at the great Microsoft Blogging Lounge typing away. I must say I’ve learned a few things from the consultants that I haven’t been able to figure out, which was great. I [...]

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Google bigger than God?-This, among other Google Trends, found by Steve Rubel.
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Semagic, the best Livejournal client for Windows, is now also a decent general blogging client. Works with MSN Spaces, Xanga, and others. I’d wish it fetched my Wordpress categories automatically.
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Chronicles of the American Civil War and the The Blog of Henry David Thoreau-Both take excerpts from real life journals and news stories from one day in history and put it on a blog. Very cool.
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Firefox 1.5.0.2: Finally an Intel Mac version and a fix for that annoying Gmail crash, among other fixes.
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Metroblogging Azeroth: The town world (thanks Tony) of Azeroth in the game World of Warcraft has more than 5 million people in it, which would make it the 28th most populous city in the world and . There’s also a lot interesting stuff going on there, so why not have a blog about [...]

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