Aug 08 2008

Offline Access to Gmail

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This post serves two purposes, the first is to let people know how to enable offline access to Gmail, and secondly to let people know how important it is to enable offline access. There is a misconception that Gmail doesn’t allow offline access, and lots of people are on the edge of their seats waiting […]

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Apr 07 2008

Find Your Friends with Flickr

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Flickr unveiled a new feature recently that enables you to search through your address books in various email systems to find contacts that are also on Flickr. If you’ve used one of the many social networking sites, you’ll realise that this isn’t a new feature – most other social networking sites allow you to search […]

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Apr 01 2008

Google Docs New Airplane Template

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Just noticed a little Easter egg in Google’s Docs application. When creating a new Document from within Google Docs, you’re given the option to create a "New airplane". Clicking on this opens a new Google Doc with the following image as a template. Enjoy.

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Jan 10 2008

Check your flight status with Google

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I first heard about this a while back but haven’t needed to use it yet. If you type a flight number into Google, the first result is the departure/arrival times with a link to track the flight using a service from www.flightstats.com I thought that this would only work for the big airlines in countries […]

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Dec 16 2007

Google’s confusing profiles

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The Google Operating System blog have posted about the new Google profiles that are being implemented. I edited my profile a couple of weeks ago when I was creating a custom map on Google Maps. I didn’t really see any significance in this at the time as I thought it was just tied into the […]

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Dec 14 2007

Google 2007 Zeitgeist Report

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The Google Blog report that the 2007 Zeitgeist report has been released. This shows trends and top searches for Google search terms over the course of the year. Here are some of the highlights: Fastest Rising (global) iphone badoo facebook dailymotion webkinz youtube ebuddy second life hi5 club penguin Fastest Rising (U.S.) iphone webkinz tmz […]

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Dec 13 2007

Google Maps localised for NZ – but aerial photos still outdated

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I’m a little underwhelmed by the announcement that Google have released a localised version of Google Maps for NZ. Sure, it’s nice to be able to type a “.co.nz” address to get to the site, and maybe it will be helpful to look for a plumber in Wellington – but when are they going to […]

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Nov 28 2007

Site updates

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Just a few site updates… I’ve started putting all my photos back on Flickr which has been made much easier due to Windows Live Photo Gallery providing support for publishing direct to Flickr, including sets, tags, and descriptions. So I’ve re-enabled the FAlbum plugin which displays all my Flickr photos on this site: http://stuart.amanzi.co.nz/photos I’ve […]

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Sep 07 2007

Google Reader updates

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Google have just released a couple of important updates to the Google Reader application. The biggest update is the search feature that has now been added. It seems strange that it’s taken them this long to add it, but it’s here now and it works well. This also gives you the ability to search in […]

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Sep 07 2007

64 Bit Rant

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I’ve been persevering with Vista 64 bit over the last few weeks, but I’m failing to see any benefit in sticking with it. Very few applications are native 64 bit and some applications just do not run at all. Microsoft is probably the worst culprit – last year they released Exchange 2007 and forced all […]

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