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Friday, September 23rd 2011

If This Then That

This is a impressive and (deceptively) simple webapp that allows you to route actions in a service (eg. liking a video on YouTube) to another (eg. tweeting about it). Granted, many sites offer this ability already, but I like IFTTT because it provides a central dashboard for all your routing while often being more customizable. Sure you could use Yahoo Pipes or Tarpipe, but those are just too excessive. Here’s a list of IFTTT recipes.

Wednesday, April 22nd 2009

AlternativeTo.net

A good-looking website that lists alternatives to well-known commercial software. However, the lists aren’t that well informed. For instance, Notepad++ (a terrific open source text & code editor by its own right) tops the Adobe Dreamweaver replacement list, which is a bit like proposing steering wheels as a replacement for car tires. Dreamweaver is big and slow and will suck bigtime if you use it as a text editor, on the other hand Notepad ++ is not a WYSIWYG application — which is the exact thing Dreamweaver is intended to be. And what’s with Handbrake (a video transcoder) as an alternative to Adobe Premiere (video editing)?

Bizarre.