In a previous post (Calendar Sync tools (Google, Outlook, Rainlendar) I mentioned that I was looking for a good tool to sync my Google calendar with Outlook.
I only seemed to find paying software but today Google itself launched a free sync tool 
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
Really easy to install and configure. You can choose 1 way or 2 way sync. This is makes the sync process between Google calendar and Outlook child play.
I’m a big Dreamweaver user because of the nice and user-friendly interface, the good intellisense and … (too much reasons to enumerate them all). I was missing only one main functionality that was better Javascript support and javascript intellisense. Since we are in the Web 2.0 age, the usage of Javascript has risen exponentially. Now Dreamweaver supports Javascript (and their own Javascript framework “Spry”) but I was missing intellisense for the famous Javascript frameworks (Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, mootools, …).
But somebody started to build Dreamweaver extensions that will fix this.
At the website http://xtnd.us/ you can find the current available DW extensions that they already build and / or will build.
For now they have the following available in béta:
Possible planned releases:
Perhaps it’s time that the guys at Adobe start to support this by providing the Javascript framework extesions.
Ajaxian posted also an article on this topic: http://ajaxian.com/archives/dreamweaver-users-rejoice-support-for-js-libs-now-available
I love Firefox as a browser but when surfing a lot and using it long time it becomes a memory sucker (using a lot of necessary memory).
I applied the following tweaks and my memory miss usage was much lower.
Assign Memory Cache on Firefox
Firefox doesn’t use memory cache and uses system memory by default, it is good to assign a fixed memory cache to reduce the usage of memory.
Important: If you want to restore to default settings then change browser.cache.memory.capacity value to -1 (minus 1).
Release Memory when Firefox is minimized
I found these tweak on Zolved.com, if you need more tips concerning Firefox Memory Optimizing visit Zolved.com
I recently discovered “Lovely Charts” (http://www.lovelycharts.com). It’s an online Rich Internet Application build in Flex (flash GUI) and a PHP / MySQL back-end. It’s developed in Belgium (my country by Jérôme Cordiez (active at http://www.thisislovely.com ) and it’s really a piece of art.
Lovely charts allows you to create online charts – Diagrams – wireframes – …
This is like MS Visio but then really nice and easy and most important of all it’s ONLINE!!!
The interface is really intuitive and the functionality is almost complete (it’s still in Beta fase).
You can draw with lovely charts:
The diagram symbols are vectorized and have a nice modern touch. The result are impressive charts and diagrams with a professional look. I tested already for personal use and now i’m even using it at my work as a Product Manager at StepStone Belgium. For my projects I have to create a lot of sitemaps, wireframes, diagrams, … and this tool just won over MS Visio. Creating complex sitemaps is no issue anymore. You can play around with all different arrows, colors, elements and symbols. Lovely charts allow you to create even the simplest or really complex diagrams without any problems, linking the different elements with one simple click. You can even specify the different types of arrow lines. When you are finished you can export your diagram / chart to a JPEG or PNG.
Everything is really straigtforward:
You can even select and manipulate multipe elements or use the keyboard to do actions.
I can’t say in words how much I like lovely Charts but just take a look at the impressive gallery and believe me afterwards you will signup. And the diagrams presented in the gallery are really created with lovely charts.
It’s a free service with the possibility to signup for a premium account.
With this premium account you can save your diagrams online.
Have a look at their gallery and watch the screencast at their nicely designed website
and Signup now for a free account 
Are you looking for a fully MS Project alternative, please don’t search any longer.
OpenProj :: http://openproj.org/openproj
This tool has all the functionality like MS Project with a big diference namely that this is open source software.
I tested the tool through and believe me that this is a keeper.
Description of the website says it all.
“The OpenProj solution is ideal for desktop project management
and is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows. OpenProj is a complete
desktop replacement of Microsoft Project and even opens existing native
Project files. OpenProj shares the most advanced scheduling engine in
the industry with Project-ON-Demand. The OpenProj solution has Gantt
Charts, Network Diagrams (PERT Charts), WBS and RBS charts, Earned
Value costing and more. “
So if you need an excellent alternative for MS Project just download OpenProj and you will be delighted.
The tool is used by all the big Linux CEO’s so that’s a good indication about the quality of OpenProj.
I was in serious need off a way to manage my tasks and agenda.
I found a really nice solution by using the following free tools:
I started using Rainlendar (http://www.rainlendar.net/).It’s a desktop calendar that behaves like a small widget on your desktop. And it looks not only really nice, it also is really good software for managing events and todo’s. I even bought the PRO license because it provides the functionality to automatically read my outlook agenda and make them visible in Rainlendar. So no double importing.
Because I have a work laptop and a personal PC, I needed something to sync all my events online so that’s easy to manage. I noticed that Rainlendar supports google Calendar, so that was the way to go. And through google Calendar it’s possible to seperate my personal and work calendar because we can make as many calendars as we wont. And google calendar provides the possibility to share your calendar. So I had my desktop calender and I had an online calendar all in sync. But I noticed really quick that Rainlendar only allowed read access to google Calendar. So I needed a 2-way sync solution between Google Calendar and Rainlendar.
After some playing around I ended up with GCal Daemon (http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/). This is an open source service which provides multiple functionality. GCALDaemon is primarily designed as a calendar synchronizer but it can also be used as a
Gmail notifier, Address Book importer, Gmail terminal and RSS feed converter. This tool runs like a service which every XX minutes syncs in a 2-way manner a specific online gcalendar to an iCal format (ICS file). The only thing I next needed to do was just set my Rainlendar to use the created ICS files and my desktop and online calendars were completely in sync. I can create an event online that will appear on my desktop and vice versa. PERFECT!!!
The only things i’m currently missing is:
If anybody has found a way to sync his Rainlendar todo or export his Outlook Agendo to an RSS or iCal format, please let me know.
UPDATE: I found a really good Outlook <–> Google Calendar tool. SyncMyCal adds a toolbar to your Outlook which helps you perform one-click synchronization between your Outlook and Google Calendar calendaring system. You can choose which calendars you want to synchronize and if you want to perform one way or two way update.
SynMyCal :: http://syncmycal.com/outlook_google_calendar_sync.htm
It comes in 2 version:
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