MeyerBros

new from google - everyone should waste their day playing with such an intuitive and fun tool.

3d sketching made super super simple. here’s an export from my trip through the tutorial…

i’m playing with a new online word processor called writely. thanks to a wired blog for the link.

currently i use writeboard for my e-documenting. from 37signals, writeboard is super-clean and efficient, but has almost no layout power (even bold and italic are sketchy prospects). i do love that simplicity - but i wonder about moving even my more layout-heavy documents to the web.

this one offers a link called: publish post to my blog, so i’m giving that a try here. it also has collaboration, sharing and publishing features - as well as the obvious version tracking. tagging, exporting to various formats, styles, tables, etc. and you log in with your google account which is nice on the easy hand and freaky on the google owning my life hand.

downside: what information do i want to trust to someone elses server? this is a general web-document dilema, not specific to this app. i want an online app that will easily backup to my hard drive as well as some random server somewhere.

also - this is soooo GUI, i’m not sure i can handle it. i have to use the *mouse* of all things, just to add bold or italics to my document.

i wonder what happens if i include XHTML tags in my writely docu-post…

the XHTML worked, but some of the formatting can get sloppy GUI-style, such as the code above for italics (CCS based, but inline and not semantic):

<span style="font-style: italic;">as well as</span>

and this code which accomplishes nothing at the end of my document, but it the remnants of some testing and deleting:

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span>

• South Bend Tribune: ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’ Preview
• various Mac app suggestions
• Quicksilver: the app i’ve fallen in love with from those suggestions

soon i’ll have a review of ‘Danny’ to post…