MnBits
It’s Friday. Time to clean out the closet of links I didn’t get around to creating full posts for.
Sproutliner
Sproutliner is a free web-based to-do list similiar to 37Sig’s Ta-Da List. Ta-Da list excels in simplicity. Sproutliner sticks with that, but it requires a learning curve to reach it (is that an oxymoron?). It also uses XMLHttpRequest/Ajax for creating it’s interface. What it does differently is how you interact with the interface. It’s a sparse page, and pretty much everything is done with the keyboard. Hardly intuitive at first, but rather nice once you get used to it. The ‘click text and just edit’ it concept works wonderfully as well. Lot’s of cons to the interface, of course, but it’s certainly a new way to look at interacting with the page and definitely worth a look-see.
Colorcombos
Colorcombos is a site that let’s you create, save, and ‘borrow’ color pallets. A great way to quickly experiment with some color concepts for a web site. Related: Color Matters, Color Blender, Color Whore, Defense Mechanism, Color SynthAxis.
De.lirio.us
I’m a little late on this one. De.lirio.us is an open source clone of De.licio.us that launched 2 weeks ago. So what? Well, good question. Apparently, that’s been a debate that’s been going on for the past couple weeks. Will it splinter users? Is it a good backup? I’m not sure I care. I do feel like I should be using one of the two, though, but have found Firefox’s built in ’simple tagging’ to really be all I need at this point. De.lirio.us’s ability to run locally has some potential. Related: The author of de.lerio.us. Spurl.net - another clone that also looks like a contender.
Odd and Ends…
Delocator is an independant coffee shop search engine. Ann ‘facts be damned’ Coulter to come to St. Paul. Pie security on high alert. More updates on St. Paul’s attempt at going wirless. Squarespace is a hosted CMS system that looks promising.
