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google docs as a wiki?

I love Google Docs. The fact that you can share documents online with anyone in a matter seconds and collaborate on documents is something I really miss when it’s not there. Like at work. With MS Office. And emailing spreadsheets and documents back and forth. Blegh. In fact, the whole document publishing/sharing thing even allows [...]

it ain’t cool if you just dump your files

One thing that continues to bug me about some software is that by trying to be user-friendly and idiot-proof, assume they can just make choices for you. Like where to install the software and where to store the files or databases created by it. The installation folder for example is something I like to choose [...]

ie8 finally caught up

Did you see the puke commercial Microsoft has running to promote IE8? They pulled it already on their own site but it’s on Youtube now so it’s gonna stay out there for now. But the thing is that they are throwing some big bucks at it to promote their latest IE release which bring us [...]

stats are like crack rock

If you have a website yourself, your stats pages are like rock to a crack whore. Well maybe not that bad, but I’m pretty sure you’ll be checking them out a lot. In my case I’m using several separate stat services, which each give me different and interesting view on what’s going on. I use [...]

find a place to sleep, the easy-peasy way

One thing that can be so annoying when you’re planning a trip on the fly is finding a hotel or a nice bed and breakfast to sleep over. Usually it means you throw down the location and the obvious keywords in Google and hope for the best. Usually you’ll also end up wasting time on [...]

getting gmail notifier to work over https

A while ago over at the GMail Blog they announced that from now on you could start using GMail more securely than ever. Awesome! All you have to do is follow the instructions on their blog post, and enable https mode for all your GMail actions in your options, ét voila, you where so much [...]

why windows desktop search sucks ass

So I’m using Windows Desktop Search at work for quick retrieval of emails and files since we’ve grown so used to the “search instead of sort” motto Google thought us. It’s WDS not because we want to use it, but because we have to from the IT guys. They got a bit spooked by the [...]