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On Monday, Adobe finally pulled the plug on Adobe GoLive software. Originally, Adobe bought GoLive Cyber Studio in 1999 to replace its aging Adobe PageMills web editing application and to compete against Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage, but a lot has happened in the last 5 years.

In the last few years, Adobe bought Macromedia, Microsoft killed FrontPage and at the same time developed Microsoft Expression to replace FrontPage. In this midst, Adobe GoLive was lost in the shuffle and Dreamweaver pretty much kicked its butt in terms of popularity and use among web designers. In the past 10 years, I came across Adobe GoLive once, when I accidentally clicked on the GoLive icon instead of Adobe Reader. So this was long time coming, Adobe GoLive is finally dead. May it rest in peace.

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Check out the Webmare 2008 - 100 best Web 2.0 applications of the year.

My favorite 5 webapps from Webmare are:

1. Kayak.com
2. Zillow.com
3. Mint
4. Basecamp
5. Vimeo

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Recently my computer crashed and it was quite a frustrating experience. When your computer is down, you really lose a lot of productivity. It takes a while to get all your files out of the old computer, setup a new machine or fix the old one, and re-install all the software and setup all settings etc…. One of the things I had to do was to transfer my files from the old hard to the new hardrive. In order to do this, you have to open up the compter box, yank out the the old hard drive and if you know what you are doing you will be lucky to get everything out of it without damaging the old drive. Although I backup most of my files, I still had some files I needed from the old hard drive.

I recently came across these really cool USB Hard Drive Docks that would have made all this much more easier. These USB Docks can also give a new life to your old hard drives which can be setup as an external back up drive. Pretty cool gadget!

Thermaltake USB Hard Drive Docks

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This car runs on air. Yes, Air!

The prototype is in the works, and according to the company that makes them, the Air Car gets up to 100 gas-equivalent mpg and can reach over 90 mph. It has zero to low C02 emissions and seats six people. Now, that’s cool!

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Is this too good to be true? Saving the environment and saving money. Not really, GreenPrint can help you to save money by eliminating unwanted pages when printing which saves paper, ink, millions of trees and much more. It also comes with a free PDF converter tool, which usually costs about $450 if you buy it from Adobe.com. I have used it on my computer and it really works well. You can actually see how much paper and money you have saved right on your desktop, it is just genius.

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One of the best frickin’ blogs for your business, with no bulls#!t.

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Great place to see list of alpha, beta and “still not finished version” of online applications.

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(1994-2008)

May you rest in peace….

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This is one of the best movies I have seen this year, featuring Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

It is based on a true story…

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There is a short article on “How to Build a Web Design Business” by Peggie Brown that’s worth checking out if you are planning to start a web design business in the new year.

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According to Jeffrey Zeldman:

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

I think this is by far the best and the most concise definition of web design you can find online.

To see what is not web design, read Zeldman’s article on Understanding Web Design in the new issue of A List Apart.

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Time magazine’s “The Best Inventions Of The Year” has some some of the best creative products and services of this year. There many cool inventions that are listed on the site, such as foldable and stackable cars, a battery that runs on sugar and much more…….

Of course, The Invention of the Year is the iPhone. I couldn’t agree more.

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Computerworld magazine highlights 10 biggest Web annoyances, which is right on target, except they forgot to include Pop-ads that keep coming up on their site as well other millions of sites on the web. So here is their list of top 10 annoyances:

1. Dubious privacy policies
2. Difficult online forms
3. Overcommercialization of the Web
4. Need for standards
5. Trolls in forums
6. Buying event tickets
7. Web 2.0 help doesn’t help
8. The expense of e-books
9. Disappointing Web video
10. Boring virtual worlds

You can read the full article on their web site.

Reading this article made me come up with my own top 10 web annoyances, here they are:

1. Blog Spammers
2. Endless pop-up ads on popular web sites
3. Flash ads that automatically expand over content areas
4. Flash intros on sites without ’skip intro’ options
5. Autoloading music and avatars on sites
6. Overuse of AJAX without purpose and function
7. Usage of term Web 2.0 for simple Javascript effects
8. Reset buttons on Web Forms
9. Animated banner ads
10. Snap Preview screens for all links on a web page

Share your web annoyances by commenting below.

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After playing around with an iPhone, I am really impressed with Apple’s new mobile device. However, it does not have everything, and there are still some areas that could use some updates or additions.

There are 10 things I would like to see Apple engineers add to the iPhone (or iPhone 2.0):

1. Cut & Paste button or function (there is none right now)
2. GPS plugin or IP based geolocator for Google Maps
3. Zoom feature for the Camera
4. Video shooting using the Camera
5. Flash support for Safari
6. File storage and viewer
7. Ability to record sound
8. Option to have multiple signatures for different email accounts
9. Vertical viewing for emails
10. Improve and Add a new to do list application

Update: 11/2/2007

Here are few more critical issues that needs to be also addressed on the iPhone that I forgot to include on my previous post:

• Battery Life (is not good)
• Microphone volume control (low quality)
• Better download Speed for EDGE Network

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