MacFUSE

You probably heard about MacFUSE (announcement). MacFUSE is an OS X implementation of the popular FUSE project (well known to Linux enthusiasts).

I just found a tech-demo video showing some really interesting features and possibilities of FUSE (of course it’s not limited to MacFUSE).

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Using Google's Blogsearch

I’m using hobix to power my blog. Unfortunately it requires some work to get the dynamic components up and running (search and comments).

So I decided to use Google’s Blogsearch which is pretty powerful.

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Google Bookmarks

Google launched it’s bookmarking service quite some time ago. Until recently it didn’t seem very interesting to me since I liked del.icio.us a lot.

I tried to use it several times but always came back to del.icio.us, either because of it’s tagging capabilities or some other feature. Yet the full-text search of Google’s Bookmarks is a killer feature!

Times change, now I made the switch to Google Bookmarks (for good).

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Gmail with your domain

Google provides a service to host your company’s (or personal) mails at their servers via your own domain. They currently provide a limited (invitation only) beta test. You can sign up at Gmail for your domain and they’ll send you an invitation. I had to wait quite a time: signed up in February and received the invitation in July.

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