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Blogging

Nick.pro Migrated to Drupal

I have successfully migrated the nick.pro site from the WordPress blog that it has been for ages, into Drupal. This is perhaps the most unusual migration of this blog (and I’ve moved this blog several times now), in that I don’t actually consider Drupal to be a better blogging software than...

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Writing

HTC Magic (G2) vs iPhone 3G (and 3G S)

Check out my review of the HTC Magic (T-Mobile G2) and the comparisons against the iPhone 3G and 3GS on LLRX. This is my third article published on LLRX. I am writing another article for the site, with my review of Google Wave, which should be out in the next week or two. (By posting this here, I am forcing myself to get it done, hopefully.)

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Event Review

I was wrong, Turns out Chrome Extensions aren't ready yet

A few months ago I blogged that an extension listed on the Google I/O session list implied that Google was ready to release extensions for Google Chrome. I’m attending the Developing Extensions for Google Chrome session right now, which is hosted by Aaron Boodman who is noted for being the...

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Event Review

Ready for Google I/O 2009

My wife and are checked into our hotel in San Francisco. Tomorrow begins Google I/O 2009 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. I’m quite looking forward to two days of Google Developer Goodness. I’m hoping that we’ll learn about a lot of great new updates to Google APIs and developer...

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News

Internet/Computer Classics Dieing off

Yesterday I retweeted a post by ReadWriteWeb concerning Yahoo’s announcement that they are closing down GeoCities this year . This was particularly sad news for me because GeoCities was where my first website was hosted. Within a day of getting the internet at home for the first time (On December...

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Technology

Google Tip: Tracking Yourself in Google Blogsearch

Earlier this month, I wrote about tracking mentions of yourself on Twitter more completely then just checking the @replies tab on Twitter (or in TweetDeck). Keeping tabs on what people say about you on Twitter is only one step in effectively tracking references to yourself online. So here’s step...

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Event Review

Shut down for an hour

For the second year in a row, my wife and I participated in Earth Hour. At 8:30 I hit the main breaker in our apartment shutting everything down for an hour. During that time we read together by candlelight and reflected on just how much energy we use on a day-to-day basis. It was amazing to us...

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Technology

iPhone 3.0 Supports Both Local AND Exchange Calendars and Contacts

When Exchange support was added to the iPhone 2.0 software last summer, turning on Exchange Syncing for Contacts or Calendars was an exclusive action. Once you turned on Exchange Calendars you could no longer sync your calendars on your iPhone with your computer directly. It appears that in the...

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