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Imagery for Sichuan, China Earthquake
via Google LatLong by elaine on May 15, 2008
Posted by Wei Luo, Technical Lead Manager, Google EarthAn earthquake of a magnitude of 7.9 hit Sichuan, China on May 12, with its epicenter about 50 miles northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. According to the latest news reports, authorities fear that as many as 50,000 people could have lost their lives. We now have post-earthquake imagery from our satellite providers; as of this...
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XBMC Turns Your Mac into the Ultimate Media Center [XBMC For Mac]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 12, 2008
You don't have to mod your classic Xbox to run the best free media center application around anymore: Dedicated developers have ported the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software to the Mac, and its killer features will convince you to abandon Front Row forever. The latest XBMC on OS X beta dropped last week, and it's as stable and useful as ever. Dubbed the "throw out your Xbox" release, XBMC...
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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 09, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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Internet Explorer and del.icio.us
via delicious blog by Nick Nguyen on May 13, 2008
Today, I’m happy to announce an early beta release of an Internet Explorer version of our del.icio.us bookmarks extension. For the first time our Internet Explorer users will enjoy most of the best features of our Firefox extension. We’re very excited about this release, as we have many users who use Internet Explorer as their primary browser. Since there are some differences between...
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VBA to return in next version of Microsoft Office; SP1 released
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Mat Lu on May 13, 2008
Filed under: SoftwareMacworld UK is reporting that Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac saw record sales since its release, becoming the best selling version ever. Of particular interest, however, is that Microsoft has announced the next version of Office will return Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to the Mac platform. You may recall that one of the big brouhahas connected with Office 2008 was the...
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So much for my time away from the computer
via Digg by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Two things about me: 1) I always have my nose buried in my iPhone. 2) I always have Google Reader open in my web browser at home. Putting those two together, you might have thought I was a heavy user of the Google Reader app for the iPhone, but I really wasn’t. I did like it a lot, but only in spurts.
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Recreating Terminal Nostalgia with GLTerminal
via MacTips - OS X Tips & Tricks by Author on May 13, 2008
... baud rate for painfully slow speedsWhile GLTerminal doesn't have nearly as many features as Terminal.app--it's strangely comforting. Something about using GLTerminal makes command line work much more enjoyable.Leopard requires a special version, but everyone else should be fine with the default download.Also remember you can full-screen GLTerminal with Command+Enter for the full effect.
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Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere.
via Official Google Reader Blog by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
... there's all sorts of information "out there" just waiting to be streamed, shared and otherwise consumed by you and your friends. Now you can finally show all of your Reader friends that awesome talking cat video you found, your favorite grilled trout recipe, or reviews of the best brunch place in your neighborhood -- all without a subscription.Here are a few new ways you can add and share ...
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Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 10, 2008
Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites.MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, a competing product. Yesterday, in a...
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Download Google's Help Files
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 01, 2008
Did you ever want to get a help file for Gmail, Google Docs or for Google Desktop so you can print it or save it on your computer? All Google services have help centers that include information about features, tutorials, troubleshooting guides, but you need to find the information in a complicated hierarchy of topics or use the search box. Fortunately, there's a way to save all the...
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