"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 … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2010
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNxXVWag7fc You can find the weekly updating channel at www.youtube.com/googlebeat. … [Read more...]