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Vista Performance: It Really Is That Bad
via RB | Upcoming by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
(author unknown) via Here's the Deal: The Next Stack Frame shared by 3 peopleShared by Robert Scoble I'm trying out a Lenovo 300 and it comes with XP and, damn, it IS fast.I try to stay away from the rant post, it's too easy and doesn't contribute a lot. But I feel myself succumbing, so at least I'll try and mix in a little useful material with my rant.I just spend some...
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Enhance Your Google Apps with Greasemonkey Scripts
via Web Worker Daily by Scott Blitstein on May 15, 2008
Like a lot of Web Workers, I am fairly dependent on the Google suite of applications, and with good reason. They are feature rich, they’re reliable, I can get to them from anywhere on just about any hardware, and they’re free.That doesn’t mean that they are perfect though. Each application has it’s own quirks and improvement is always possible. Thankfully, if you’re a Firefox user...
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Facebook Says: No Google Connect for You
via Web Worker Daily by Mike Gunderloy on May 15, 2008
... Facebook users, the reach of those sites is considerably lessened. Although Facebook’s reasons are couched in terms of respecting user privacy, there are other agendas here - like desperately hanging on to eyeballs to sell. Until and unless we see the rise of truly vendor-neutral frameworks for storing and sharing identity information, this sort of squabbling is bound to continue.Share/Send
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Can’t tell the Crises without a scorecard, Part 2
via Blog@Newsarama by Tom Bondurant on May 15, 2008
Grumpy Old FanContinued from last week, here’s Part 2 of the Grumpy Old Fan Pocket Guide To DC Line-Wide Crossovers — plus some (slightly) more substantial analysis.* * *11. Genesis (1997; 4 weekly issues and 23 tie-in issues)Why? Apparently the source of all our heroes’ powers — yes, all of them — is something called the “Godwave,” which is connected to the Fourth...
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Cause, but no effect
via Dance of the Puppets by Marionette on May 15, 2008
... for the Daily Planet by pretending to be an alien from Mars, because he's seen the success the newspaper made out of old hoaxes. He's perhaps momentarily forgotten that these days Superman drops by to give them daily exclusives better than any dumb hoax.And then in order to help a girl become more popular at college, does Lois give her a makeover? No, she gets Superman to pretend the ...
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Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?
via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
... gotten my hair cut:Then I was reading Google Apps Hacks and Hack 25 caught my eye: “Show the difference between two dates”. A formula like “=INT(A2-A1)” will automatically compute how many days passed between the date listed in cell A1 and the date listed in cell A2.If you copy and paste a date from Google Calendar’s search results into a cell, it will automatically format a nice ...
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Are Folders And Files “Old School”?
via Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest by Jason Kaneshiro on May 14, 2008
Steven Hodson wrote a good post about GMail not working out for him as a primary email client. One of his complaints was the use of labels and how they weren’t a satisfying replacement for folders to organize email.Although I use a GMail account as my primary email address, and really enjoy the convenience the web client provides in terms of access anywhere, I still download all my emails at...
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Increase Font Size in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 07, 2008
Google Reader added an option to increase/decrease font size for all the posts: press = to magnify text and - to decrease its size. Unfortunately, Google Reader doesn't save your preference, so the next time you open it you'll see the original font size.While most browsers include a zoom feature (Opera, IE7, Firefox 3) or an option to increase the font size, Google Reader applies the new...
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Kitty Wittgenstein and the Sinister Society of Southpaws (4.3)
via The Kitty Wittgenstein Blog by kw on May 11, 2008
4.3 Luke Who's Talking(note: to go to the beginning of the story, go here, to see all Chapter Four posts, go here and to see all Sinister Society of Southpaws posts, go here)“I feel better than I thought I would,” I said to Luke. This wasn’t a lie.“That’s great,” said Luke. He turned and beamed at the camera. “Let’s check the clock.” An excitable pause as the audience...
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Scott on JLI part 4
via Geoff Klock's Blog by Geoff Klock on May 05, 2008
[Guest-blogger Scott continues his look at the JLI; for more in this series see the toolbar on the right.]How Blue Beetle Copes With Inadequacy and Why Russians Are People TooTowards the beginning of the third issue, Beetle is growing a bit restless of the team’s stakeout of the Champions of Angor. This results in the following exchange:Blue Beetle: You have any idea how long we’ve been...
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