Dropbox is a great tool to store, synchronize and share your files. Think of it as a free USB flash stick on the web. It’s perfect if you’re working collaboratively on files or just need a simple and easy way to synchronize stuff across multiple computers.

Here is what Dropbox says about itself:

Dropbox is a free app that syncs your files across your computers and the web. It’s available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. After installing, you’ll be able to:

• Make changes on one computer and see them instantly on others.
• Get to all of your files from anywhere you have Internet.
• Collaborate on team projects or share your files straight from your computer.
• Restore files you’ve deleted, or go back to previous versions.

I highly recommend giving it a try. The free version gives you 2 GB of storage, which is plenty for standard things like text or code files. If you use this referer link you (and I) get 250 MB bonus, so about 2.2 GB total.

(Plus, they use super-cool illustrations like the one above.)

Twitter Search is a powerful tool. Within seconds, you can find up-to-date information and links to any topic. Queries like “:)” or “is down” are also a great way to get short snippets of entertainment. To get more out of it for myself (or others?), I built a little tool.

I use Twitter Search a lot to collect interesting links on various topics. Since Twitter Search only handles one query at a time, I found it uncomfortable to keep an eye on different queries. Therefore, I created the Tweet Sheet.

As could be guessed from the name already, this is nothing more than a simple sheet (or page, but that didn’t rhyme as good) where three different search queries can be tracked at the same time.

How to use it

Fill each of the input fields with a query and hit “refresh all”, or refresh individual fields alone.

The settings in the upper right corner allow control over the amount of items and if only tweets that contain links should be shown. I found this to be important, because it makes “harvesting” links for a certain topic easier.

Feedback is appreciated :)

Rund 2400km von Barcelona nach Lissabon. Ein Roadtrip zwischen zwei Städtereisen. Eine schöne Tour, für die man sich vielleicht mehr als 12 Tage Zeit nehmen sollte. Fotos der Reise folgen.

Reisekarte

Eine Präsentation, die ich im dritten Semester zusammen mit Matthes Linnartz gehalten habe. Kontext war eine Reihe von Präsentationen zum Thema Moderation, Verhandlung und Präsentationstechniken.