Tag: POST

In a move to reduce CO2 emissions and number of postmen required, Finland is about to do away with regular mail -- instead, mail will be opened, scanned and delivered digitally to its recipient. It could only happen in one of the most cold and sparse nations in the world -- Finland has a population of just 5 million, and only Iceland has a more-northerly capital than Helsinki -- but if it takes ...

The super-simply blog platform Posterous has just released a new feature on its post.ly domain, which was previously used only as a URL shortener. For those that are not familiar, Posterous is a blogging platform that makes posting dead simple. You just send an email to post@posterous.com, and if you don't already have a blog there one is created for you. Subsequent emails are treated as new ...

Email is a convenient way to communicate, but some correspondence requires the extra effort of a printed letter. With Snailmailr, though, printed letters don't actually take a whole lot of effort. Just enter an address, type up to four pages, and pay $1, and your letter will be printed and mailed for you. Does it still count as more personal than email when you don't have to leave your computer ...

Still have some friends who aren't hooked up with email yet? Maybe your Grandparents or Parents are a little behind the times? Or maybe you just want to send some paper to someone? EasyPost has opened the doors and made it possible for anyone to send paper letters to any mailbox in Canada via a simple online form. The letters that are submitted through the online form gets printed out via high ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/TriQQr_twitter_submitter_tool_for_windows'; Twitter, oh twitter you are everywhere, and now you come to my desktop, and the desktops of all other Window's users. TriQQr is a little tool for windows users that makes it simple for Twitter users to enter posts by using a desktop application that can be constantly left open. The tool is currently only available ...

Commentful is a useful tool for watching blog post comments, and getting instant notifications when comments are posted, similiar to co.mments and CoComment. Through Commentful, you can set up specific URLs to monitor for comments. When a post URL is set up, and there have been comments added to that specific post, Commentful will send out a blinking beacon, either in the web application, or ...

This Firefox extension is fantastic for all web developers and anyone who's just curious about what's being sent between Firefox and a web server: UrlParams is a sidebar that shows all of the GET and POST parameters Firefox sent to the server with the last request. You might say that you can see the same thing with LiveHTTPHeaders, and you'd be right, but UrlParams does it in a much more readable ...