December 2009
26 posts
The BVCA guide to venture capital termsheets →
Compare and choose your wiki software →
IDE for professional web developers →
As a closer look reveals: “Both PDT and NetBeans are good. If you need a lot of plug-ins, Eclipse is the better choice. If editing tools and code completion are more important to you, then pick NetBeans. NetBeans is a bit more responsive, too. If you are mostly editing HTML and CSS, try Notepad++, vim, TextMate or Emacs. They all have very good HTML editing capabilities and can be configured...
Blogzines are the new blogs →
How to call for Twitter followers →
The best damn web marketing checklist, period! →
“Consumers are spending more and more time online, yet only about 10% of all...”
– Chris Dixon’s blog
Visual Thesaurus →
Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus is an interactive online dictionary and thesaurus which creates Java-based word maps with related words based on a database of roughly 145,000 entries.
Feng Shui for your office →
Indelible e-mails in Apple mail
If you can not remove a certain message in Mail from the inbox view because the e-mail (showing up with a blank body in preview mode) only greys out if you press delete, try Edit > Cut (CMD+X) instead. Problem solved.
The cost (in shares and capital returned) of early... →
“Teams get £20,000 for 8% of common stock, mentoring and free accommodation for 16 weeks. This contrasts with Seedcamp, which takes between 5-10% (it varies) for 50,000 Euros.” - TechCrunch Europe
“Während wir endlos über die Extreme von oben (Topmanager und deren Gier) und...”
– Wolfram Weimer on the German brain drain at Cicero Online
The difference between KPI and metrics →
Jolicloud →
Just in case you’re tired waiting for Google Chrome OS to come around, why don’t you give Jolicloud, the “cool new OS for your netbook”, a try?
FontStruct →
Easily create your free fonts online. If you’re more into handwritten typesets, try Fontcapture instead.
SUSE Studio →
Build an appliance (or your own custom Linux distro) with a few mouse clicks in SUSE Studio.
How to change the default OS X boot icon →
Frank geht ran →
A German mobile number you may use for any webform requesting one. And other cases. (If called, a male voice actually explains that it’s just a dummy.)
The bottled water industry →
How to draw a 2D wireframe mockup
Just in case you need a clean draft of your startup’s user interface or the next website’s design, you may check out Mockflow, Hot Gloo, Balsamiq Mockups or the entirely free web application Mockingbird. For some, Google Docs’ drawing option while using templates might be an alternative, too.
If you want to add some clickable buttons, page load events and further logic to...
Facebook in numbers →
How to build a custom photo gallery based on the... →
I would have never believed that Google Chrome is that much faster than Mozilla Firefox. Just installed the developer channel version for Windows, feeling blown away.
Enterprisity →
How to run Google Chrome OS in a virtual sandbox... →
Fotopedia →
Self-titled as “The first collaborative photo encyclopedia”. And that’s what it is.