Although I’m a huge fan of Tom Revell’s Stickies sticky note program, I’ve also been looking for a program that consolidates notes in a panel, uses tags and lets you filter notes in and out as necessary. I’ve just done a workshop on QuotePad for Computeractive which has many of the features I’ve been looking for. Check out the piece in an upcoming issue or visit the QuotePad site to see for yourself. And while we’re here, I also like the look of Cintanotes which does many of the same things but looks - to my eyes - nicer. Still in beta though.

Fed up of web sites that shout at you courtesy of banner ads, video clips, pop ups, sidebar slideshows or whatever? Try Readability, a tidy little add on that works with most popular web browsers that strips out pretty much everything apart from the actual text that you’re reading. Great for long newspaper features of the kind favoured by the Sundays. Read my workshop in Computeractive magazine.

I like simple things. A Kelly Kettle. A nice fishing rod. An old Yamaha acoustic guitar, a Fender Jazz. And I like Collagr as well. Point it to a Flickr photo stream and it’ll automatically produce a collage based on those photos.