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Most people, when using OLAP cubes, are hitting the live version that is located on SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). They hit it with Excel, or some other reporting tool, etc. I have blogged previously about offline cubes and how you could possibly use them.
Now, the blog I did before, I talked about creating [...]

Recently, Amazon released their Kindle application for the iPhone. Since I don’t have a Kindle (but I want one!) I figured this would be the next best thing. They have this technology in the app called WhisperSync which sync’s up the page you are reading, so if you do have a Kindle, you can switch [...]

Google Reader has had “trends” for a while now, it really lets you see what you read, when you read it, etc.
Why doesn’t Gmail have a trends page? Why doesn’t it show you who you get email from, who you email the most, time of day etc. Something like Xobni. I know there is [...]

Now that Google has released its browser, Chrome, that leaves us 4-5 big players in the browser wars.
1) Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (download)
2) Mozilla’s Firefox (download)
3) Apple’s Safari (download)
4) Opera’s Opera (Weird – their company name is the same as the browser name) (download)
5) Google’s Chrome (download)
Pretty much everyone has used IE, unless you are [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]