I picked up the Samsung Epic 4G yesterday and I’m enjoying making the upgrade from the Palm Pre. There have been plenty of reviews of the phone by those that are lucky enough to get review units but not much discussion of the accessories available. Here’s my opinion on the official accessories like the holsters, screen protectors, cases, and others.
Use WordPress to Create a Searchable Archive of Your Tweets
“Once you put it out on the Web, it’s always exists.”
“Oh yeah, well then why can’t I find what I’m looking for?”
If you put anything of significance on Twitter or just want to keep a copy of everything for yourself, you’ll probably want to keep a copy of your Tweets. Between Twitter’s downtime or “Older tweets are temporarily unavailable.”, off-loading from Twitter seems best. Previously mentioned applications like Sharetronix or Status.Net allows you to establish a micro-blogging system running off your own server. That’s one approach but many people are on Twitter for one reason or another and don’t want to switch. A better setup would be to continue using Twitter as is but archiving the individual tweets. Here’s how I’m accomplishing that using WordPress 3.0.
Gmail Prioritizes Your Inbox
Gmail will be rolling out a beta service called Priority Inbox to all Gmail users over the next week. You can check out the new service once the red ‘New! Priority Inbox’ link shows up in the top-right corner of your Gmail.
Priority Inbox will work by adding three different sections to your Inbox: first for important messages, second for starred, and third for everything else.
The service will automatically elevate messages as they come in from the ‘Everything else’ to the ‘Important’ section based on criteria like how frequently you open those messages or how often you e-mail the sender. It will also learn as it goes, much like the spam filter.
Is it Possible to Live by Best Practices?
If there can be Christmas in July then I guess another round of New Years’ resolutions in August isn’t too far off. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been trying to live by best practices in a few key areas: following the principle of least privilege, using strong passwords that aren’t reused across multiple sites, and using No-Script in my web browser to protect against malicious scripts.
Let’s say we’ve already got all the low hanging fruits covered like regularly backing up our important files, running an antivirus program (Avast! recommended), and running our systems off a UPS (battery backup) so let’s try to mature and take our lifestyle to following the next level of best practices.
Google Updates Google Calendar’s Look, Adds Scheduling Assistant
Google Calendar updates are rolling out. Announced yesterday, the changes include updating the repeating event editor, a scheduling assistant to find free times for meeting participants, and for Google Apps, you’re now able to set working hours. The update also includes, we’re told, significant updates to the code behind the scenes to improve performance and consistency.
Google Makes A Newscast Out of Google Trends
Google has started a channel on YouTube to cover the hottest Google Search trends for the past week. The channel uses Google Trends and Google Insights for Search as their source of information. Here’s the first video:
You can find the weekly updating channel at www.youtube.com/googlebeat.
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