Alex's space

updated firefox with spell check

a new firefox plugin that spell checks any form you enter text in to (such as my textile box i am writing this in)!

this is a godsend for me and my terrible spelling, so make sure you update firefox and go to the addons page, and if you are British scroll down a bit in the dictionaries as UK English is a bit further down (or you may default to US and worse spelling).

having a go on Tumblr

having a play with Tumblr, a new tool for bringing all your disparate blog posts, flickr photos, del.icio.us links, Twitterings, myspace entries etc in to one place… my little Tumblr is here

and seeing as it will pick up this post, i guess it will start referencing itself and get in to some sort of loop ?

anyway it is worth a play as they have made it very easy to set up and use and it is simply and cleanly designed. GWFs.

Web 2.0 the Machine is using us

love this as a very simple way to explain some of the elements of web 2.0, have watched it several times already. Created by Michael Wesch, an assistant Cultural Anthropology Professor at Kansas State University, US. I am sure it has been blogged by everyone before me but i liked it so much i had to have it!

Twitterific for the PC or Twitteroo

Have been on Twitter for a little while now, and like it quite a lot, the mac crowd are all very happily using Twitterific and telling those locked into PC’s how great it is!

The first similar tool for a PC I have found is Twitteroo from Rareedge and so far so good, it installed well and does what it says on the tin, now i need to see if it does change the way I use Twitter.

CDT Comfortable chairs

having found this link polling for favourite chair design on 37 Signals blog I am reminded of many fun days at school with friends in the CDT (Craft Design and Technology) lessons laughing at some of the ‘high design’ stuff we saw in the reference books / magazines.

Our concept / in-joke was to draw bizarre chairs that would be awkward to sit on then call them our ‘CDT Comfortable Chairs’, what is perhaps the real co-incidence is that recently via twitter I have re-connected with a fellow pupil from those very same lessons.