The big news of the day is … Google has released the much anticipated Google Calendar! Wow, Google has got online calendar, big deal, isn’t it? Yahoo and MSN has got one for ages, and what makes Google’s offering unique?
For one very obvious reason, Google lets you use iCal format to share your calendars. Woohoo… don’t worry, giving you the ability to share your calendars doesn’t mean you need to share them with the rest of the world! By default, all calendar events are private unless you want to make them public.
Now let’s make one of your calendars public so that we can access it via Sunbird. The Sunbird Project is Mozilla’s (the company behind the popular Firefox web browser) approach to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla’s XUL user interface language. It’s free and currently in alpha stage. Nevertheless, you can still use it to access your Google Calendar.
And below is the howto.
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Quick details:
1. Type about:config at your Firefox address bar.
2. Type browser.search.order at the filter bar.
3. Change browser.search.order.1 to Google.
Why?
I’m a big of del.icio.us and I thought it was a great news when the official Firefox extension was made available. Now you can tag and search your saved bookmarks even more easily.
However, I dislike the idea that it wants to be the first search engine of Firefox without even getting my permission first. Google is still the place I would go to when I want to look for something. Being someone lazy to take the hands off the keyboard, I want to be able to find something quickly by just pressing CTRL+K (Firefox’s keyboard shortcut for search). If Google is not currently the search engine, I can simply press CTRL+Up repeatedly before I start the search. With Google search engine as the first choice, you’ll never miss it because the scroll stops at the top and bottom position.
Note that you’ll have to do it everytime you upgrade your del.icio.us extension. Ouch.
Published on November 11, 2005
in Tips.
If you own an iBook and you want some extra juice out of it, consult this excellent tutorial on how you can turn it into a Powerbook sibiling. It requires some skills, knowledge and tools. And the author has warned that if you don’t want to get your hand dirty, do no start!
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According to Nathan Weinberg of InsideGoogle, Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search history, which lets you tag and comment pages you find on Google.
To bookmark a page, just visit it through Google Search, get to it in your Search History, and click the star icon. Then click “edit� and type in any tags under the “Labels� heading. You can even add some notes in the box underneath that.
Once you’ve saved a bunch of sites, you can view them by clicking the Bookmarks heading in the left sidebar. You can show multiple tags at once by clicking all of their check boxes.
Published on August 19, 2005
in Tips.
If you use WordPress for your blog, then this article is for you. It shows you how to utilize some existing plugins to backup your blog into a Gmail account (not necessarily Gmail, but you can’t go wrong with 2GB of free account).
Link: Lifehut.org - Wordpress + Gmail.
Don’t feel bad if you think you don’t take nice photographs with your camera. With a few steps in Photoshop, you can apply Lomo effects (typically bright colored and highly saturated with darkened edges) on your photos to make them look nice. No hardware lens or software filters are needed.
Link to the tutorial. See some samples here and here.
Yeah, it’s a 2-year old article.
Published on August 11, 2005
in Tips.
If you use more than one computer, such as a notebook and a tower by your side, then you’ll appreciate Synergy. Synergy lets you share a keyboard and mouse across multiple monitors on separate computers, even between different operating systems!
Engadget has an easy to follow tutorial here on how to setup and use it.
Published on August 3, 2005
in Tips.
Firefox is supposed to block all popups, right? But I’m sure you have come across occassional popups. Petebevin.com has a way (back in March!) to eliminate them. I’m repeating it here verbatim:
1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
4. Set the value to 2.
The possible values are:
0: Allow all popups from plugins.
1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
2: Block popups from plugins.
3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.
Originally from Petebevin.com.
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