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Google Dashboard: See Google Services & Data Associated With Your Account

todd — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:32:22 -1000

Wonder what you have in various Google services (including privacy settings)?

Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard!

You can find the Google Dashboard for your services at...

https://www.google.com/dashboard/

Free Online Book by Gina Trapani & Adam Pash: The Complete Guide to Google Wave

todd — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:46:20 -1000

I freely admit to "not getting" what Google Wave is about. Fortunately, there is a new book on the topic co-written by LifeHacker founder Gina Trapani...

The Complete Guide to Google Wave

FYI: The link above is to the URL...

http://completewaveguide.com/

Google Convert, Zip, & Download Feature Lets You Bundle Google Docs Into a ZIP File

todd — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:19:44 -1000

Here's a new Google Docs feature that I've been wanting for a while now...

Liberate your Google Docs with Convert, Zip and Download

It lets you bundle together multiple Google Docs documents in the format of your choice and then download them all in a single ZIP file.

More info about it is found on the Google Docs Blog...

Data Liberation, "Mark as viewed", and New!

AVG LinkScanner Scans Shortened Web Addresses

todd — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:21:34 -1000

PC World reports that the free...

AVG LinkScanner

...can scan web addresses shrunken by URL shortener services like bit.ly and tinyurl. Interestingly, AVG's website for the product doesn't seem to tout this ability at all.

Impressed by Picasa 3.5 Faces Feature, Better Than iPhoto 09, Recognized Child Face Across Time

todd — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:02:41 -1000

Wow! I'm really impressed by Google's Picasa 3.5 release.

Google Picasa

Google Apps Status Dashboard

todd — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:59:59 -1000

This is mostly a note to self :-). The Google Apps Status Dashboard is found at:

http://www.google.com/appsstatus

Saves a lot of wondering to check it when a Google web app seems flakier than usual.

YouTube Upload Not Working with Mac OS X Snow Leopard

todd — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:17:48 -1000

Ran into an odd problem. I tried uploading a video from my Mac to YouTube. This is the first time I've tried to do this since upgrading the Mac to Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). The problem is that YouTube doesn't even let me see the dialog box to upload a file from the Mac. You can see what the problem looks like in the screenshot above. This happens with both Firefox and Safari on the Mac.

I was able to upload a video file from a Windows 7 computer and Firefox without any problems.

Sorry if your recent comment to a blog item was deleted

todd — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:13:17 -1000

My apologies if your comment to a recent (within the last week) blog item was deleted. This blog is based on Drupal. And, its Akismet add-on stopped working months ago. I've been manually approving valid comments and deleting spam. But, the task was so onerous this weekend that I ended up deleting everything (hundreds of comment spam).

If anyone knows of a good way to migrate nearly a thousand blog items out of Drupal and into, say, WordPress, please let me know.

Is XMind Worth Looking at as a FreeMind Mind Mapping Allternative?

todd — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:00:10 -1000

The XMind mind mapping service an free Open Source (so they claim) app for Windows and Mac OS X (Linux too) looks interesting. But, I dislike the idea of being required to sign up for a "free" XMind ID just to try the app. I've been a reasonably happy FreeMind user for a while now and have been using it more regularly recently. But, I wonder if it is worth the time and effort to take a closer look at XMind.

Any comments from someone who has use XMind?

j.mp == bit.ly: An Even Shorter URL Shortener

todd — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:48:34 -1000

j.mp == bit.ly in the literal sense. j.mp is simply an alternative domain and 2 characters shorter than bit.ly. Everything else is the same: Login name/password, statistics, etc.

Twitter Was Down Hard

todd — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:21:23 -1000

I was seeing "503" errors (server not found) for about 10 minutes when trying to get to Twitter.com. Finally, the somewhat rare Fail Whale message above showed up. Twitter seems to be up now. But, I'm not confident it will stay up.

Bit.ly Following Twitter's Lead: Down Often

todd — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:52:23 -1000

bit.ly is my favorite URL shortener. But, it has become increasingly flaky and increasingly unavailable over the past month or so. So, what's the next great URL shortener with link statistics? I need an alternative to bit.ly.

VisualSVN Server Standard Edition: Free/Easy Subversion Installer for Windows

todd — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:10:32 -1000

Subversion is a widely used version control application that is very powerful but can be a little tricky to configure properly. My experience with it has been on Linux servers. I suspect installing it for Microsoft Windows is a bit tricker since installing and configuring Apache's httpd web server might be a bit trickier there too (I haven't installed Apache httpd under Windows in a couple of years). VisualSVN provides a free installer that installs and configures both Apache httpd and their VisualSVN Server...

VisualSVN Server Standard Edition

Comics & Comic Book Themes for iGoogle

todd — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:19:24 -1000

The giant Comic Con conference has been going on for the past week. Google contributed its part by providing free licensed themes of famous comic strips and books. You can find themes based on Superman, Iron Man, Peanuts (Snoopy), Dilbert at more at...

iGoogle Comics & Comic Book Themes

Audiobook Free for iTunes Week Starting July 14 Only: Chris Anderson's Free: The Future of Radical Price

todd — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:42:56 -1000

Here's something you don't see as part of the weekly Free on iTunes giveaway list: An unabridged audiobook...

FREE: The Future of a Radical Price (Unabridged)

Note that this is probably only free until July 20, 2009 (next week Monday).