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I read several interesting technical articles recently, and thought I’d share some of the more interesting ones with you.
The first bundle of links are all all Google-related:
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch notes that 1,000 human lifetimes have been spent looking at Google Earth. I would never have given this any thought on my own, but it [...]
Occasionally I will review my blogging stats, get really discouraged at not building up traffic more quickly, and strike up a conversation with Thomas or Lance on whether it is worthwhile for me to continue blogging. I picture people standing around at my funeral and saying, “well after he retired, he watched X-Files reruns and [...]
Google keeps making more of their applications and services available in mobile form, with Google Calendar formatted for the iPhone and iPod Touch being a well-known example.
Recently they have been paying a little extra attention to BlackBerry devices:
As explained here, they have made a Google Updater available for the BlackBerry. All you have to do [...]
This article provides a few miscellaneous tips relating to Gmail, Pocket PC Notes, and BlackBerry Use.
Gmail
Just in case you haven’t noticed it yet, Gmail now has colored-label capability, as illustrated in the screenshot to the right (from my inbox).
This is really a slick feature, and enhances Gmail’s use as a task management interface. My sense [...]
I caught the last 20 minutes of one of Oprah’s shows earlier this week, and was fascinated to listen to a couple of upstart stars, Jurnee Smollett and Nate Parker, talk about what they had learned from Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker while making the film The Great Debaters.
Jurnee and Nate impressed me with [...]
