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For a while, there have been offerings from Google (Google Apps/Docs), Zoho, and others, and recently, Microsoft jumped into the “online office” game with office.live.com. Pretty cool. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote in the cloud. Limited, but you can create docs, share them, edit them, with *no software* installed on your system. Good in a [...]

I use Google Chrome as my primary browser in Windows (it is blazingly fast and minimal). (I use Safari on my Mac’s) .. one awesome thing I have started to utilize is Application Shortcuts in Windows 7 and pinning them to the taskbar.. Which are apps and which are just browser app shortcuts? Pretty sweet. [...]

I have tried many iPhone Google Reader apps, and nothing has come close to working well for me but the web app as a web clip shortcut. That changed this week when I checked out Reeder (http://reederapp.com/2/) I read a ton of Google Reader (usually 10,000+ posts a month) so I need something good. Reeder [...]

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 [...]

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 SRV records, so [...]

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 [...]