Tag: FREEDBACKING

Firefox 2 isn't even officially out the door yet, but if y'all aren't partying too hard, why not toss in your two cents on how Firefox 3 is going to turn out? Mozilla has decided to offer up a a public brainstorming wiki to solicit ideas and feature requests for the next major release of Firefox. The page is already impressively organized, offering fine-grained categories for things like software ...

Google has announced what is quite possibly the largest update to Google Reader since its inception, bringing an entirely new UI, more keyboard shortcuts, new bookmarklets and a whole lotta results from user feedback to the table. Overall, as a Google Reader fan for some time, I am pleasantly surprised by this wholly positive and usable update, but it isn't without a few confusing quirks. The ...

Cron is a great utility for scheduling windows jobs. It runs as a service, accepts parameters and will execute any dos command you can throw at it. I am currently using it to upload a disaster recovery document to a web server at work. It works like a charm. Cron, a Crontab document (no more than a text file really) and a few ftp commands later (at least for my project), and wha-lah! You have the ...

The term certainly doesn't roll off the tongue as well as 'feedback', but in this case, that's an advantage. 'Freedbacking', a melding of 'free' and 'feedback', is a new tag proposed by Lockergnome's Chris Pirillo that bloggers can use to let developers know their apps are being talked about. The idea is that by using a 100% made-up term that search engines have never heard of, users who have ...