Stylish Searches – Spezify

http://www.spezify.com/ inspired searching.  This is very stylish and nice to use – it searches using a number of resources and presents your results in an interesting and visual way.  Created by Swedish designers – check it out.  By the way, desperate for a quick way to grab a screen capture on this mini-pc I tried out aviary.com/ if you type this pre-fix before any url in the address bar it will load up a free screen capture tool – seems to work ok – quick and dirty!

Hello world!

After several years of not blogging and using a range of other tools I have been lured back by http://www.feedly.com/ ..

Feedly is a firefox extension which weaves twitter and Google Reader into a magazine like experience.  Paired with delicious to bookmark the content I like – it has revolutionised my information management for web resources.  It is really easy to select what you want to include in your Feedly and then to scan through to select particular articles to read further.  Once you find something you like it is straight forward to share it through Delicious, Twitter, email, facebook etc. by clicking a button.

I also found http://www.fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/ which makes it easy to combine blog posts into a newsletter.

My aim is to use the two applications to collate, comment and share information online with colleagues..making my blogging easier and saving the extra effort of a separate newsletter.