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Web Design Feedback / Markup Tools
Are you or your clients still printing out and scribbling on revisions of a web project to convey the changes you want? Sending countless e-mail attachments back and forth between you, your team and clients? New markup tools make it easy to provide feedback on design, content and code without ever leaving your web browser.
Solution # 1:
Notable.com – Complete Website Feedback / Project Collaboration SaaS ($44 per month)
Notable.com allows you annotate any part of a page, even if you’ve never touched HTML. Visually leave feedback where the actual problem appears within the site. In addition to doing inline feedback, Notable.com keeps track of who suggests what and tracks the history of feedback made from each team member / client contact.
Key Features:
• Add inline feedback for both website layouts and code
• Quickly and easily collaborate centrally or remotely
• Review feedback history to spot trends in mistakes
• Easily add additional people to review and provide feedback
Cons:
• May be too pricy for small web development shops (starting price is $44.00 per month)
Feedback within Code Example
Feedback on top of a web design example
Product Tour: (http://www.notableapp.com/tour)
Solution # 2:
Aviary.com – Falcon Image Markup (Free!)
Aviary’s Falcon Image Markup Tool allows you to make screen shots of your web project and make simple inline markup. While not as slick as Notable’s service, Falcon is still useful for providing quick feedback. Best of all, it’s free! All you have to do is sign up for a free account and install a Firefox-compatible toolbar. The toolbar allows you to quickly capture and notate
Key Features:
• Free!
• Easy to use, FireFox plug-in makes screen captures easy
• Fast loading, even on slow connections
Product Video:
iPhone OS 3.0 update due at 1pm ET
iPhone Update 3.0 Download Finally Here!
I love my iPhone, it’s a gadget that I can honestly say saves me time. Being a converted BlackBerry user, there’s a few things that I have missed though. The first of which is having the ability to Cut, Copy & Paste. While this seemed like a no-brainer function to have, up until this release it was impossible to do. The other limitation that drives me crazy about the current 2.0 software version is the inability to attach photos, video and contact info to SMS messages, another thing that the BlackBerry did very well.
Software Update 3.0
In typical Apple fashion, almost all of the shortcomings of the current iPhone software will be addressed in the new 3.0 software update, which will be available for download starting tomorrow June 17th. The update will be free for iPhone users, iTouch users will have to pay a one-time fee of around 10 bucks. Here are the highlights of the new 3.0 software release:
- Copy & Paste Support (finally!)
- Landscape Keyboard option when texting
- Photo, Video, Contact support for SMS texting
- Centralized search capability
- Record Voice Memos
- Improved Calendar with CalDAV support
- Buy movies, TV shows and Audiobooks from device
- Enhanced Stock Application
- Peer to Peer app support for gaming, etc.
- A bunch of other things
Here’s a complete list of 3.0 enhancements from Apple’s website
The primary thing that I don’t like about the upgrade is that they’re not offering Internet Tethering support in the US. This would allow you to hook your iPhone to your Laptop to browse the Internet. I’m sure that has something to do with the AT&T monopoly. I’m sure a not so legal workaround to this limitation will appear within time 
How to Download the 3.0 Update (available 6/17):
1. Simply open up iTunes with your iPhone / iTouch attached.
2. Click on your device under the “Devices” left-hand menu.
3. Click the “Check for Update” button and follow the steps.
Bye-Bye Exchange, Hello Google Apps Sync
I’ve have always been a fan of Microsoft Exchange, primarily because it works so well with Outlook on the desktop and OWA (Outlook Web Access). Once again the developer gods at Google have changed that with the release of Google Apps Sync, merging the affordability of Google with the familiarity of Microsoft Outlook.
What is It?
Google Apps Sync is a workstation plug-in that allows you to sync your Outlook and Google web-based apps such as e-mail, calendar and contacts.
How easy it is to set up?
Setup is cake, taking me about 5 minutes to install the Sync plug-in on my workstation. Once logged in, your existing Outlook contents (e-mail, calendar events, and contacts) are imported to the Google Apps servers automagicaly.
What Versions of Outlook does it work with?
Outlook 2003 SP3 or 2007 SP2
Google Apps Sync has the ability to question the need for Exchange, especially in a small business environment where the initial software purchase and upkeep is a large percentage of an IT budget.
How it Works Video:
The Most Dangerous Search Terms
A recent report from McAfee outlined search terms that have the highest probability of leading you to websites full of spyware and malware. Most of the terms are related to downloadable contact such as screen savers, music lyrics and free music (imagine that).
The study pulled this data from 5 search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, Ask and AOL)
Click Here to download the full study from McAfee.
Alfresco – Open Source Document Management
Are you or your clients looking for a better way to keep track of a large amount of documents? Check out Alfresco, an open source alternative to Microsoft’s SharePoint product. Top 6 features:
- Simple document version control that everyone can understand
- Integration with Microsoft Office
- Access files via the web interface or traditional shared network drive
- Create workflows to approve document changes and more
- Blog, Wiki and discussion support
- Personalized Dashboard that can show recent activity for the specific project / files
This is a great open source project that keeps on getting better each version. It now even supports the Microsoft SharePoint protocol!
Go to www.alfresco.com for more information.
Contact us if you’re interested in a demo of Alfresco in action.
Social Networking up 83% in U.S.
The growth of social networking sites over the last 365 days is astounding. The exponential growth curve trumps any other type of type of media hands down. Here’s the top ten sites and their growth from April 2008 to April 2009:
The combination of Facebook and Twitter is pulling users away from MySpace and other smaller sites.
Who will be next? Based on what’s happened to sites like Friendster in the past, my bet is that it’s just a matter of time before a new social networking site grabs market share from today’s leaders.
What’s this all mean? Businesses can no longer ignore the use of social networking as a viable marketing tool.
Oh Joy – Microsoft Bing.
Coming soon to your desktop operating system June 3rd. – Microsoft’s new search engine called ‘Bing’. I’m sure that Redmond will do all it can to take market share away from Google. It will be interesting to see what get roles out in their automatic updates… Maybe a new default page or toolbar???
WSJ Article
Introducing Google Web Elements
Google rolled out a new product today called Web Elements. Web Elements makes it easier to embed your favorite Google product into your webpage. This is a perfect way to add event calendars, etc. to website projects that don’t have the budget or need for a custom-programmed solution.