3 2 1 Contact!
Integration, I’m almost there. Contacts integration I mean. I’m not a fan of Plaxo, never have been, but for some reason I’m OK with Google having my contacts information. I guess it’s because for me Plaxo seems like they want to create a business around my contacts, while for Google my contacts are available to [...]
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I’m Living In Austin, TX
I finally installed Firefox 3.5 yesterday, it’s a bit snappier, overall a good upgrade. I wanted to give one of its new features a try, Geolocation. The browser can tell a website where it’s located, thus allowing that site to pinpoint where you actually are. Great in theory for say Google Maps. I tried it [...]
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Gmail, Mark As Undead
So I have my family domain name hosted by Google Apps, so all my email for my domain is now hosted by Gmail. Great! But Gmail’s website, although quite easy to use, had one very annoying feature… Mark As Unread. That evil little piece of junk, when clicked, would mark the entire email thread/conversation as [...]
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Note Booked It
How lame, Google is killing off Google Notebook. I used this baby all the time, via their site, my mobile phone, and the iGoogle gadget. My grocery list, some random bookmarks, things to remember, random addresses, releases of new music/movies coming out soon that I want to buy, etc. I still use the RememberTheMilk iGoogle [...]
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Free The Airwaves
I came across this on Google’s Blog: Down to the wire on white spaces And they have it correct, white spaces are important. So here is my “blog action”, sign the effing petition, literally takes 5 seconds. Effing lobbyists.
In: Tech · Tagged with: google, politics, wireless
Polishing The Chrome
I started using Google Chrome yesterday and Oh-My-Gawd is it snappy. I’ve been a Firefox fanatic, but my new default browser is now Google Chrome. I do miss my Adblock Plus though, but there is a proxy adblock workaround for GC that I may mess around with later. Good thing extensions and scripts are forthcoming for [...]