Heaptop - Stay on top of your info heap

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Stay on top of the heap and have all relevant information for the moment in one view. Customize your ≡Heaptop info board by adding different widgets for time, calendar, location and much more.

Features:

• fully customizable info board: add and remove widgets, drag and drop for reorder
• widgets for time, location, calendar (local and Google Calendar), distance, weather,checklists, sunrise, webcam images...
• widgets are customizable too

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The App:

Available for free for iPhone and iPad:

New in the App Store: Events

Creates a number of counters which countdown to the upcoming events from public Google Calendars. Any public calendar can be the source for a counter. You can select the number of events you want to see at once.

New in the App Store: CountDownr

Countdown counters, generic and from Google Calendar.

New: Moon Phases in the App Store

Countdown to the next moon phases: full moon, new moon and first and last quarter.

New: Racing in the App Store

See the schedule and countdown to the upcoming Nascar and Formula One races.

New: Sports in the App Store

See the schedule and countdown to upcoming sport events.

New Project: Sports

See the schedule and countdown to upcoming sport events.

sports.speedymarks.com

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New: Football in the iPhone App Store

See the schedule and countdown to the upcoming NFL football games.

New iPhone Project: Soccer

See the schedule and countdown to the upcoming UEFA Champions League games. You can choose to countdown to the next CL days or to the next games itself.

soccer.speedymarks.com

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New iPhone Project: Baseball

See the schedule and countdown to the upcoming MLB baseball games.

baseball.speedymarks.com

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New iPhone Project: Football

See the schedule and countdown to the upcoming NFL football games.

football.speedymarks.com

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New iPhone Project: Holidays

Get countdowns for the upcoming holidays in different countries. The holiday events are provided by Google Calendar.

holidays.speedymarks.com

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New iPhone Project: Events

Creates a number of counters which countdown to the upcoming events from public Google Calendars. Any public calendar can be the source for a counter. You can select the number of events you want to see at once.

events.speedymarks.com

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The Cloud on the Air

Cloud computing is on everyone's lips nowadays. New web sites are started daily which try to replace your local installed applications, e.g.:

Office - Google Docs, Zoho Office
PIM - Webmail, Google Calendar
Imaging - Photoshop Express, Picnic
Dashboard Widgets - Widgetop

You can even have your whole desktop in your browser but that seems a little bit to much for me.

So what's the advantage of cloud computing? Obviously you only need a web browser and that's it. All your documents are stored on the internet and you can access them from everywhere. There is no need to install applications locally and keep them up to date.

But there is a second advantage. Having your apps and docs in your browser means you don't need a big computer anymore. But what will be the perfect machine for the Cloud? It doesn't need a big hard drive, an optical drive and a very fast CPU but it still should have decent screen and keyboard otherwise working will be a pain (which disqualifies ultra small laptops like the EeePC).



For me it looks like as Apples quite new MacBook Air is the perfect choice. It doesn't compromise on display and keyboard but otherwise it's as thin and light as possible which makes it easy to carry it with you and work from where ever you want. Not to mention the quite long battery life. The only feature missing seems to be a built in LAN connection (although you can buy a USB ethernet adapter). Of course the MacBook Air can connect via WLAN but a wired network is usually faster and much more reliable.

Finally there is the visionary name of it! Did Apple have to the Cloud in mind when they named it MacBook Air? I doubt it.

GMaps Wall Calendar

Do you look for a personal and unique gift for your friends or beloved ones on Christmas or birthdays? What about a wall calendars made out of Google Maps?

My new web site GMaps Wall Calendar makes it easy to create the calendar sheets. You only have pan and zoom to the map location you want to have on the sheet. Choose the month and year and whether your week should start with a Sunday or Monday. Optionally add a title, caption, a calendar footer and then open a new browser window with your calendar ready for printing. It can't be easier!

http://calendar.speedymarks.com

New Project: CountDownr

Today I started my new project: CountDownr.

CountDownr is a little Ajax project which gives everybody his own collection of countdown counters. Each counter is customized to its own time and date when it goes off. There are two types of counters:

• Counters for a specific date and time. These counters can be repeated daily, weekly, monthly or yearly which advance automatically when the alert goes off. They are perfect for reminders on single events, lunchbreaks, weekends, paying your monthly bills or birthdays and holidays.
  Example: Midnight
  


• Counters which read the upcoming events from public Google Calendars. Any public calendar can be the source for a counter. It advances automatically to the next event after each alert.
  Example: Google Developer Calendar