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One reason I use Google Reader is to share interesting articles in my shared items page. However, I find that I’m more productive when I use NetNewsWire, since I’m in control of how & when it fetches new items, so I spend less time reading news.
I’ve been looking for a way to share items in [...]

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Thanks to Google’s 2001 search index, I was able to find my original weblog and worldbeatplanet.
In 2001 I was using Radio Userland for my blog, which I hosted at editthispage.com.
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WorldBeatPlanet was a static page, long before I switched first to PHPNuke and finally to Drupal.
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I installed the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update a few hours ago, so far with no problems. One feature Apple didn’t mention in the release notes is that Address Book can now sync with Google contacts. The sync happens automatically with a .Mac sync, as well as when syncing with an iPhone. It worked very [...]

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I signed up for Google’s new App Engine beta and I’ve already started looking at the APIs. It looks very clean and well-designed. I’m not too familiar with Python, but it looks like it’s fairly simple to pick up. The language itself is easy and has some nice Lisp-like features that I really like. The [...]

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It looks like spammers are using Google Calendar now to send spam as invitations from their calendar. These people deserve to die.
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Via Andre Noel (Planet Ubuntu):

1. Go to Google
2. Type “find Chuck Norris�
3. Click on I’m Feeling Lucky

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A lot of people have been posting referrals to a new site called bux.to on Twitter & elsewhere. It works by having you click ads and stay at the site for 30 seconds. This is click fraud, and it’s against the terms of service for Google AdSense and every other ad service.

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There has been a lot of kvetching about Google Reader’s shared items feature. People say that it ’sends their shared items sent to people in their mailbox’, which isn’t true. You need to explicitly add friends to Reader so you can see their shared items.
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When you add someone to your friend list, you [...]

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This morning I discovered a new Gmail feature I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere yet. The More Actions menu has a new item, “Filter messsages like these”. It takes you straight to the Create Filter screen with the search criteria filled in based on the selected messages.
That was one of my favorite features of Eudora, so [...]

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