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Google Web History is a Personal Choice

One item I find amusing is how the same product can be loved and hated by people. Perhaps, this is truer when the product is free such as Google’s Web History. Web history is a nice and useful product, but it may not be for everyone.

Continue Reading July 31st, 2007

Submitting to Akismet from LifeType

I have updated the Akismet plugin for LifeType to allow spam comments to be submitted to Akismet.  This allows users of LifeType to help Akismet catch spam that are being missed.  When installed, you can submit spam from the list of comments.

There are some things that I want to add, when I have some time:

• Allow a list of comments to be submitted as once
• Allow comments to be automatically deleted after being submitted (Or at least, mark them as already submitted.)
• Allow trackbacks to be submitted to Akismet.

The plugin will be available the next time that it is pushed to sourceforge.

Continue Reading July 31st, 2007

links for 2007-07-29

• Importing your blog into Facebook - Josh Ledgard’s Blog
  (tags: facebook importing rss feed)

Continue Reading July 29th, 2007

Remember the Milk

One of the features that I used to use in iCal that is missing from Google Calendar is task management.  I used to create tasks for repeating items like, flea treating the dog or replacing the furnace filter.  Also I would add entries for projects that I wanted to remember to do.

When I switched to Google Calendar, I created events for these items, as Google Calendar doesn’t show tasks from shared calendars.

I heard about Remember the Milk on the dl.tv podcast today, and I decided to try it out.  This site lets you manage your task list.  In addition to using the web interface on the Remember the Milk web site, you can also add the tasks to Google Calendar and iGoogle.

The other cool thing is that it uses Google Gears, so you can access your To Do list even when you are offline.

Continue Reading July 28th, 2007

Locating access points

I had a quick thought.  At our house we can see a bunch of 802.11 networks, but I have no idea of where the access points are located.

I was thinking that there would be a neat way to locate the access points:

• Setup three computers running iStumbler
• Gather the signal strength of all of the visible networks
• Use that information and the location of the computers to determine where the networks are.

It would be cool if this was added to iStumbler or a plugin for iStumbler would do this automatically

Continue Reading July 27th, 2007