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Google Finally Connects GMail and Google Docs & Spreadsheets!

January 28, 2007 at 8:40 pm · Filed under Software, Web

You can finally open your Gmail document attachments in Google Docs! Hooray! Next to the attachment there is now an option that says “Open as a Google document.”

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is turning out great. Try it out if you haven’t yet – while it’s not going to have as many functions as Microsoft Word does anytime soon, it’s great if all you need are simple word processing tools and nothing more. As an added bonus, you can access your documents anywhere you have a computer with internet access!

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Worth1000 Contest: What’s Next For Apple?

January 28, 2007 at 8:29 pm · Filed under Miscellaneous

What’s Apple going to come up with next? Worth1000 is asking you! The site is running a contest for people to come up with an answer (read: Photoshop). To see the submitted ideas, click here.

Many people seem to be a fan of an iPotty or iToilet. I, personally, would love to own the iCar. Which one’s your favorite? Let me know in the comments!

iCar

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Notepad++ (Windows)

January 5, 2007 at 8:33 am · Filed under Software

Writing long code in Notepad is a nightmare. If you aren’t already cultishly attached to a text editor and are looking for a nice Notepad replacement, be sure to check out Notepad++. I’ve been using this for coding for quite a while and I really like it. Languages supported are C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC file, makefile, nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, Unix Shell Script, Fortran, NSIS and Flash action script.

Download.com describes Notepad++’s main features:

Notepad++ main features are: Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, User Language Define System, Regular Expression Search, WYSIWYG (If you have a color printer, print your source code in color), Unicode support, Full drag-and-drop supported, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, 2 edits and synchronized view of the same document, User Language Define System.

There are also line numbers (of course) and loads of other features! I’ve recommended this to a few of my friends and they’ve loved it too.

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Click here to download Notepad++.

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Browser Timer for Windows

January 5, 2007 at 8:14 am · Filed under Software

If you’re anything like me, you probably find yourself surfing the web for “just 10 minutes”…except that those minutes often drag on and become hours instead. This could be a helpful download – it’s a simple program that shuts down your browser after a user-specified period of time.

LifeHacker featured this program as their Download of the Day yesterday:

Browser Timer is kind of a brute force tool for limiting your browsing time, lacking the subtlety of a tool like Gina’s Invisibility Cloak script for Greasemonkey. If you don’t need the advanced features of the Invisibility Cloak, this tool provides a very simple, zero-configuration method for limiting your browsing in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. Browser Timer is open source, built with AutoHotkey (which warms the cockles of my heart).

I could definitely use something like this.

Click here for the LifeHacker post.

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Google Calendar Succeeding (so far)

January 5, 2007 at 7:57 am · Filed under Software, Web

I admit, I am a self-proclaimed Google fan. Sure, they have some issues now and then and not everything they make is successful (like Answers), but I enjoy most of the products they make. So it’s exciting to see that their calendar is doing well! It’s receiving about the same amount of traffic as Yahoo’s and MSN’s calendars. Though Yahoo’s is still in the lead, its traffic is declining (as is MSN’s) while Google Calendar is logging a steady increase in traffic. Hooray!

Here are the Hitwise and Comscore charts.
Calendar Charts