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Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?
via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO by Matt Cutts on May 15, 2008
The other day I realized that I enter my haircut appointments into Google Calendar, so I can search for “haircut OR (the place I get my hair cut)” and see when I’ve 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...
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A Chinese family sitting down for dinner
via Stuck In Customs by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by Brandon Wonderful picture. It's like they're the only ones alive.This was taken in the Chinese area of Malacca along the southern coast of Malaysia. All of the buildings in these streets are lit up with red lights as night falls and families gather for dinner.
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 12, 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s...
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Zealous Autoconfig
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 28, 2008
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Disqus and Seesmic Teaming Up for Video Comments
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 13, 2008
It's only been a few weeks since I integrated Disqus commenting with my blog, but I've already reached the point where it would be hard to consider what life was like before Disqus came along. Overnight, with the help of Daniel Ha's excellent customer service, I went from flat Blogger comments that were a hassle to simplified, threaded, personalized comments in Disqus, which integrate...
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Working with Apple Tech Support
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on May 12, 2008
Sixteen tips for getting your Mac or iPhone fixed: The contact number is (800) 275 2273 While you're on hold, go to Google and type: Troubleshoot Mac xxx, where xxx represents the error message you got or the sparsest description of what won't work. If those links don't help you, visit the Apple site and choose your product. Under each product is a discussion forum. Search for...
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Get More from Ubuntu's Uncomplicated Firewall [How To]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 13, 2008
The Ubuntu Unleashed blog has an excellent guide to the ins and outs of the Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw), a new feature in Ubuntu Linux 8.04, or Hardy Heron, that makes it easy to control the traffic into and out of your system. While turning on the firewall is as simple as typing sudo ufw enable, you can do a lot more with ufw, including:Check the status of ufw with the ports in the listening...
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Brand new Google Reader for iPhone
via Official Google Reader Blog by dolapo on May 12, 2008
Mobile web browsers have come a long way since we first introduced an XHTML version of Reader back in 2006. For example, iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser is. We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. Sometimes we use it to kill time, other times for answering important questions that come up during brunch: What is Tyrol's first name? How...
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Mozilla “On the Street” Interviews
via Planet Mozilla by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by Tomer Cohen מישהו רוצה לעשות את זה גם בארץ? :-)One of our Mozilla Campus Reps came up with the idea last year, and we recently launched the Mozilla “On the Street” interviews project!With the Firefox 3 release just around the corner, I thought now would be the perfect time to get our Campus Reps out there to: A. find out what people have to say about Firefox...
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Mozilla Stealth Data Project Could Be Just What The Internet Needs
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 13, 2008
One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites. But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer said they may fix that problem in the future, via the massive installed base of Firefox users.The State of Analytics TodayThere are three ways to measure web traffic.The first is user-focused and based on software...
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