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Create A Kiosk This Thanksgiving With Chrome OS

25 Nov 2009

Thanksgiving. My favorite holiday, ever.
Seriously.

Family gets together and fellowships together and gives thanks to God. It’s a beautiful thing. During these times, family tends to utilize technology as well. Often I bring my laptops and let my siblings, nieces, and nephews use them. I notice they primarily use the [...]

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Tags: chrome os, chromium, family, google, holiday, kiosk, technology, thanksgiving

Google Sidewiki Shakes Up The Web

In: web2.0

24 Sep 2009

No one likes losing control.

Hence the backlash to Google’s new Sidewiki product. Sidewiki is described as follows:
Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page.

Sounds familiar? Well there are several sites out there which allow you to “annotate the web” such as Diigo. You [...]

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Tags: aggregation, annotate, backtype, comments, diigo, google, sidewiki, Software, tools, utilities, web2.0

Why I’m Not Running Picasa On My Mac

In: geek

6 Jan 2009

I’ll make this brief. I was excited when Google’s Picasa was announced for Mac since I was eager to try it with my photos. Upon installing it yesterday, I noticed something very disturbing:
On initial launch of Picasa, it forces you to scan your computer for images. It gives you two choices: [...]

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Tags: apple, fail, google, images, iphoto, picasa, pictures

My Top 10 Websites of 2008

In: geek

14 Dec 2008

It’s coming to the end of 2008, and along with the holidays, vacation, shopping, we also tend to find a lot of “best of 2008″ tv shows, specials, and even blog posts. I’d rather not go into why I’m doing this, I just find that it’s a fun activity. Last year, I did [...]

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Tags: eoy, friendfeed, gmail, google, Google Reader, hulu, posterous, social networking, socialmedian, top 10, twitter, ustream.tv, web2.0, Youtube

3 Ways To Utilize Google Friend Connect

In: geek

4 Dec 2008

The masterminds behind Google are pushing an initiative known as OpenSocial which aims to connect many different types of web sites using one single API. One of the fruits of OpenSocial is Google Friend Connect which seems like a technology demo on the surface, but I’ve found a couple of possibly useful gems to [...]

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Tags: google, google friend connect, help, howto, opensocial, tutorial

T-Mobile G1: Beware Of The Limitations

In: geek

23 Sep 2008

Today, the Google Android platform had its coming out party, and the first phone to use Google’s new mobile software, is the T-Mobile G1. Rather than bore you with all the details you’ve read about one the web already, I’ll summarize some limitations of the T-Mobile G1:

No 3.5mm headphone jack. (Update 09/25/08 – T-Mobile [...]

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Tags: android, cellphone, electronics, g1, Gadgets, google, hardware, Smartphone, t-mobile

Google Reader Shared Notes Feature

In: web2.0

5 May 2008

Today, Google announced a cool new feature to Google Reader: The ability to share an item with a note. I could see this being useful for me and my podcast as Google Reader shared items is my primary source for collecting links to podcast about. Now I can do this outside of [...]