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...

May 26, 2009 2 minute read.

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...

Apr 24, 2009 2 minute read.

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...

Mar 30, 2009 2 minute read.

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...

Mar 29, 2009 1 minute read.

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...

Mar 18, 2009 2 minute read.

Technology

Twitter Tip: A Better @replies List in TweetDeck

Both Twitter and TweetDeck (as well as most other Twitter Clients) give you an easy way to get a list of responses people sent you. On Twitter itself, this is the @Replies tab off of your home page. TweetDeck gives you a Replies column by default, and if you delete it, you can get it back by...

Mar 06, 2009 3 minute read.

Technology

Keeping in Step 2: iPhone, Mac, and Google Calendar Syncing, now Better, and cheaper.

Back in August, I posted a how-to on keeping your iPhone (or iPhone 3G) and Mac in sync with Google Calendar all the time over the air, it basically required using both Mobile Me and Spanning Sync with an Always On Mac to make sure your iPhone was kept in constant sync with both your Mac and...

Feb 26, 2009 3 minute read.

News

Google Chrome Extensions Coming Out by May!

That’s right, I said it, and so far I’m the only one who has. Google has announced that extensions are coming to Google Chrome but have been mum on when. However I saw something today, that indicates the timetable may be short. Google officially opened up registration for Google I/O 2009, their...

Feb 04, 2009 2 minute read.

Movie Reviews

Is the book better than the movie?

It is no secret that I’m a fan of the Chronicles of Narnia series of books and movies, and as a loyal fan, I follow news related to Narnia, and one of my favorite news sources for Narnia-related news is NarniaFans.com . I don’t normally bother to post Narnia-related news here, because I feel that...

Jan 15, 2009 3 minute read.