JTB World Blog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
I have this problem and it happens once in a while. I have only seen this in IE7 on Windows Vista when I start Google Reader. iexplorer.exe is still running as a process in the background and has to be killed manually or there will be problems to run IE7 again. Have anyone else run into this problem? Since installing IE8 Beta 2 I have not had this problem though. On the other hand I initially had...
Langwitches (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
If you use Google Reader as your RSS Aggregator, you might or might not be familiar with the “Starred Items” “Shared Items” feature. Although I neglect these two features sometimes, when it is hard enough to get though all my my feeds anyway, they have grown on me and I am using them more and more. The [...]
TinyScreenfuls.com (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Update: I’m an idiot. This is a feature that’s part of Lifehacker’s Better GReader Firefox extension that I installed the other day. I just now noticed the behavior, and though it was part of Google Reader itself. Still, a cool feature - check out Better GReader for that and more! And sorry for the false [...]
The Jose Vilson (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
A few weeks ago, Google revealed Barack Obama and John McCain’s Internet reading list for the world to see. Most of it wasn’t surprising: Barack goes left and John goes right. Most of it is political news and the world keeps rolling, because we’ve seen all these blogs before. But ever wonder what some of [...]
Download Squad (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Filed under: Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Web services , Google , Freeware , web 2.0 Some of the applications I use most often aren't desktop apps, they're web apps that I access through a web browser. Gmail, Google Reader, and Google Docs, for example. GMDesk is an Adobe AIR-based client for these and other Google-based services. It's based on the idea that you shouldn't have to fire up a web browser...
My Digital Life (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Some software developers like to add a hidden feature or algorithm inside their program which will only be executed when certain sequences of keys been pressed or actions been performed. These informal tricks inside an application is called easter egg. For example, easter eggs in Firefox 3, Windows XP easter egg, Windows Vista easter eggs [...] [ This is a content summary only. Visit My Digital Life...
Blog Oklahoma (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
www.google.com/reader - How to use Google Reader to read all your favorite news sites and blogs in one place and share news with friends.
TangleBones (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Here’s what was waiting for me in my feed reader this morning: The Sun mocks Tito, Jenna and the little tike The Sun mocks Tito, Jenna and the little one Shamrock says brother beat Kimbo Rogers shreds Shamrock and calls Kimbo the ‘Black Yeti’ Shamrock says brother beat Kimbo Shamrock says brother beats Kimbo Rogers calls out Kimbo, shreds Shamrock I don’t know [...]
Google Reader (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Our friends on the Blogger team just lauched Following . Blogger users can now "follow" blogs they like, given them an easy way keep up with their favorite blogs, and allowing authors to see who their readership is. Better yet, followed blogs also show up in your Reader account, in their own folder. That way you can get the full power of Reader's tagging, sharing and starring without having to maintain...
HTMF: Prince Rupert's Website (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
This is from http://www.commoncraft.com/ a site that makes easy to understand videos about complex things.
Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Yet another great video from CommonCraft. This one about Google Reader: Google Reader is currently in joint 3rd position (with Skype) on the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 list. Read why it is so popular here. And because of this , It's also one of the 25 Tools every learning professional should have in their toolbox.
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Google Reader is my main feed reader and an indispensable tool in the arsenal of web services I use daily. It helps me keep up with all of the blogs I follow and I also use it to share items on our Link Blog, so it’s great to see a Common Craft video on “Google [...] ShareThis
Common Craft (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The Google Reader team hired us to create this one minute introduction to Google Reader . Share this video with this code: Our other videos for Google include: Google Docs Mobile Maps (My Location) Google Apps with Salesforce View all of our custom client productions .
Common Craft (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Standard Deviations (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
I frequently run into pages with loads of images (here’s one via Kedrosky, here’s another, and here’s yet another). Viewing these images involves a dance of scrolling or hitting space, then scrolling again to get the image lined up in the viewable part of the browser, and repeating over and over again. The better user experience [...]
