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Google Maps Street View comes to Madison!

Although, not as exciting as my street view in Portland, I live way back in the apartments in the back. No street passes by it. Although this is pretty cool. Good way to find your way around, or at least not get lost. But remember, Google Maps gets you lost!
Technorati Tags: Google Maps,Street View,Madison,WI,Wisconsin,Portland

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Google Apps For Your Domain - Google Talk, Federation, SRV Records, Domain Transfers, DNS

Well, I want my Google Apps (GAFYD) account to be able to use Google Talk with other users (using Federation) besides Gmail and GAFYD (ex: Twitter, Meebo, etc). To do this, you need to add SRV records to your DNS (http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=34143) - no problem right?
Well, my current hosting (hostmysite) doesn’t allow [...]

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iPhone: Google Maps Continuously Crashes

Found this out this weekend, my Google Maps was continuously crashing. I was at the hotel, and the wi-fi for the hotel had the screen where it asks you to accept the ToS, or whatever. I never accepted, but was trying Google Maps on my phone, and it kept crashing. I just had to turn [...]

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Awesome Firefox Extension/Add-on: GooglePreview

I installed this extension: GooglePreview - about a month ago, pretty awesome. When you search Google (or Yahoo) it puts a little thumbnail preview up by each search result. I am so used to it by now that when I search Google without it (say  in IE for example) it just feels weird.
check it [...]

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Google Reader: Shared Items - Link Blog

Here is my Google Reader shared items link blog - http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10787205546622911766
The RSS Feed is here: http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/10787205546622911766/state/com.google/broadcast
Check it out if you want to see what I find interesting, mostly going to be BI/Database/Programming posts I find that are useful.
Technorati tags: Google Reader, Google, Shared Items, Link Blog

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Trying Out Google Reader

I started reading blogs steady back around 2002-2003, and started my own in 2004. Since I started reading blogs, I have went through the gamut of readers…
First I started with SharpReader for a while, a fat client, that was OK..but a lot of feeds had errors..
I then started using RSS Bandit, which was good, but [...]

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HowTo: Migrate Hotmail to Gmail or Google Apps for Your Domain

Like I said previously, I just moved to GAFYD, which is the Google Apps version of Gmail. I needed to move my Hotmail (well, actually Windows Live Domain) emails over to gmail. How do you do this? Well there are a few ways….
#1 - Install Windows Live Mail Desktop, add your hotmail account, get all [...]

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Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Impressions

I never really used Google Docs and Spreadsheets up until the last few weeks. Since I got a Mac, and haven’t bothered to load OpenOffice on it or anything, I didn’t have a good way to edit word docs. The other thing is I wanted to collaborate on a few docs, so I figured, let’s [...]

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Woah, Google Maps Street View Comes To Portland…

There is my apartment, mine is on the left, the three windows on the first floor.
Here is a link to the map, I wonder if I am in any of the photos! :)
 
Technorati tags: Portland, Oregon, Google Maps, Stree View. Burnside Street

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Weird Google Search Behavior - Handling Apostrophes

Just randomly by accident, I typed in a search in Google, and accidentally put an apostrophe in front of the word. On the results, I noticed something was wacked, the top search bar was missing. I tried this for multiple keywords. Not sure if this always happened or if it is just a little bug.
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