Feeds shared today: May 15, 2008
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ReadAir Brings Google Reader to Your Desktop [Featured Download]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 14, 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): Free, open source application ReadAir syncs your Google Reader feeds to the comfort of your desktop. ReadAir—whose three-pane interface looks and feels much more like a desktop newsreader than Reader—also retains a lot of Google Reader features, like starring items and adding and tagging feeds. The biggest missing feature in ReadAir is its lack of keyboard...
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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 13, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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Google Spreadsheets Become Wikis
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 14, 2008
Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secret code and the people you invited had to login using a Google account. If you click on the Share tab and enable "Anyone can edit this document WITHOUT LOGGING IN", your spreadsheet becomes a wiki...
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Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by andrea Trucchetti per blogger!Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not another computer task that takes far too long to get done. But that's exactly what it can feel like if it takes you more time to find your post ideas, tweak your markup, and make everything look right than to actually get your...
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Sharing Is For Everyone! ReadBurner Now Includes Netvibes
via Official ReadBurner Blog by drew on May 13, 2008
... also integrated Netvibes into a main tab, just like we did with Google Reader, so now you can access your start page within ReadBurner.This announcements gives you a bit of an idea about what we’re up to – analyzing what people are sharing across the Web. As such, our tagline has now changed to “what’s shared on the Web.” Stay tuned for more exciting announcements soon
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FriendFeedLinks: A Memetracker For FriendFeed
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on May 14, 2008
Given the popularity of FriendFeed, it’s surprising that we haven’t seen many memetrackers appear for the site. Today French developer Michael Mortchelewicz has unveiled FriendFeedLinks, which attempts to fill that void.Compared to other memetrackers like TweetMeme and RSSMeme, FriendFeedLinks has a very spartan interface. There are no summaries or discussions to speak of - just a link to...
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Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 14, 2008
Macs may be more expensive, and Mac users more elitist (ahem), but blind Apple loyalty aside, there are a number of neat features bundled into your Mac that make it super useful and fun. We've covered dozens of Mac tips over the years in these pages, but today we're highlighting 10 lesser-known Mac tricks that come baked into Leopard. From pure eye candy to outright productivity-boosters,...
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via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 16, 2008
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Use iGoogle and Google Reader in the Sidebar
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 14, 2008
A simple use for Google's iPhone interfaces is to add them as sidebars in Firefox or Opera. I mentioned last year some Google gadgets for Google Notebook, Google Talk, Google Docs, that could be displayed in a permanently-visible sidebar. Here are two interfaces optimized for iPhone that have permalinks:iGoogle - all of the gadgets are displayed in a single column and you can switch between...
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Day With No News -- brilliant BBC news-footage remix
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 14, 2008
... has remixed a bunch of BBC news-footage in which the anchors, having signed off, just look at one another with relief and sit silently waiting for the fade-out, calling the result, "The Day There Was No News." The effect is nothing short of wonderful.Mr Jalopy adds, "Somehow, this silent newscast is more eerie than normal boombastic version of the days events."Link (Thanks, Mr Jalopy!)
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