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Typedia Sorts, Shares Fonts In A Community-Based Font Catalogue
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’ve spent hours looking for the right font for your project, Typedia can help. Typedia is a font-centred community project that indexes, catalogues and displays fonts of all sorts. More »
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Tiddly Backpack Tracks Your Notes On The Go
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Tiddly Backpack is an extremely lightweight (20k!) portable wiki for your USB drive. The spartan interface is extremely easy to use and the entire wiki is self contained in the original html file. The Flash video above demonstrates just how simple the interface on Tiddly Backpack is. The icon menu that appears next to all the entries is a nice feature, allowing you to quickly edit, move, or delete entries with a single click. For another lightweight and portable wiki, check out TiddlyDu2. Tiddly BackPack is a free download, and works where ever you can load a web browser. Tiddly Backpack [via Digital inspiration] More »
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TiddlyDu2 Manages Your Tasks On The Go
5:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | TiddlyDu2 is a TiddlyWiki derivative tweaked to serve as a personal information manager. TiddlyDu2 has categories for sorting current tasks, long term projects, life goals, and a context based system task management that will be more than familiar to GTD devotees. Additionally there is a contact management subsection and a calendar system with a handy time line function. Just like TiddlyWiki, TiddlyDu2 is a stand alone wiki that can be launched from your home computer, carried with you on a flash drive, or hosted from your personal server or wiki host. If TiddlyDu2 is free and works anywhere you have access to a web browser. TiddlyDu2 [via Linux.com] More »
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PikoWiki Optimizes Wiki-Editing for Phones
12:10AM Kevin Purdy | If your net-connected phone or PDA lacks an easy-to-sync note-taking application, or you just prefer the open-ended nature of wikis, PikoWiki is one of the better mobile-friendly wikis out there. A super-slim interface gives you all the tools you’ll need to make and edit notes and lists, and search or browse your pages. Those with basic HTML knowledge don’t have to learn a single bit of wiki style, and anyone can try it out on the demo pages provided. The real benefit, of course, is getting at those same notes from any other browser you find yourself at. PikoWiki is free to sign up for and use. PikoWiki [via MakeUseOf.com] More »
Publisher Extension Makes Wikis Editable in OpenOffice
6:40AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux (OpenOffice): The Sun Wiki Publisher, a free extension for the OpenOffice.org office suite, lets you edit and contribute to any MediaWiki-based page on the web, assuming it accepts anonymous editing or you have credentials. The real benefit lies in being able to use OpenOffice’s styling tools—bolding, lists, tables, and the like—instead of having to remember the MediaWiki markup style. Creating a new page is relatively simple, but editing an existing page requires, at least with this version, copying and pasting an article in Writer, then sending it to the wiki for updating. For those rocking their own wiki web pages (or thumb drives), this extension might make a nice go-between. The Sun Wiki Publisher is a free download, works wherever OpenOffice.org does. Sun Wiki Publisher [via Linux.com] More »
Make Your Google Spreadsheets Editable By Anyone
6:40AM Kevin Purdy | Google Documents rolls out two features that make collaboration easy, even amongst friends and co-workers that don’t have Google accounts. Spreadsheets now have an “Anyone can edit this document without logging in” option in their share tab, turning your document into a wiki that tracks changes in real time and can email you a summary. Also, those who dig the custom input forms can now embed them on any web page, and users who don’t like your choices can submit their own answers with a new option. Great tools for those who want to collect opinions and data, but don’t want to spend a lot of time setting up the web pages to do so. Embed Your Forms [via Google Operating System] More »
WikiU Schools You in Film Making, Home or Otherwise
9:30AM Kevin Purdy | Most home movies are jammed-together affairs, but anyone can make their videos better with a little schooling in the basics of story-telling. The Wikiversity has a free multi-part “Film School” that focuses on the kinds of tips just as helpful to unofficial wedding videographers as aspiring auteurs. Learn the basics of framing, editing in “L cuts,” and when and where to cut a scene. Some of it does get a bit technical for DIY directors, but you’ll pick up enough to have real pride in the next set of home-burned DVDs you send out. WikiU Film School [via gHacks] More »
Luminotes is a Wiki Without the Markup Learning Curve
10:00AM Kevin Purdy | Setting up a personal wiki is a great way to set up a digital notebook for your thoughts and tasks, but it also requires getting familiar with the Wikipedia editing system—asterisks, brackets, and all. Luminotes has you simply start typing, using familiar rich text buttons to add bullets and other styling, and a simple linking and tagging system for your notes. There’s options to share and collaborate with others, as well as easy exporting and printing. Luminotes is available both as a package for hosted web space and as a somewhat-limited free account at Luminotes’ servers. More »
Integrate a Personal Wiki into Outlook’s Today pane
12:20AM Kevin Purdy | Lifehacker reader and TiddlyWiki enthusiast Fraser has written up a guide that takes the idea of cut-and-paste Outlook Today customising to the next logical (or at least Lifehacker-friendly) conclusion—integrating a TiddlyWiki to-do list and notebook into Outlook. Combine the easy-to-edit power of a personal wiki with the at-a-glance inbox and task information from Outlook, and you’ve got a powerful start page indeed. For a primer on getting things done with a TiddlyWiki, check out guest-poster Jason Thomas’ GTDTiddlyWiki walkthrough. (Original Outlook Today post). More »
