Doing More With Less Since 1972
GoogleReaderpocalypse. For Real This Time. – TechCrunch – Boo. Hiss. I read this article in google reader.
Why Microsoft Is Like The GOP – I thought the point of this article was going to that most of the people who use (vote for) Microsoft products do so while holding their nose.
Google Now arrives on Chrome! – BAM! Awsum.
Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus – Forget statics. It's statistics.
Refill Your Travel Toothpaste Bottles with a DIY Adapter – Bookmarking just in case things get really bad and I’m forced to buy toothpaste in bulk. Just. In. Case.
5 Fun Ways to Learn a New Language – One thing that has worked well for me is “Spanish Hour”. For a whole hour, The Missus will play the roll of someone who doesn’t speak any English at all. This usually results in both of us getting some quiet time reading.
Cool Ironman Kona Infographic – Check out the decrease in bike/run splits. And the fairly level swim splits.
The Future Of Working From Home – Things are definitely moving this way. I’m pretty sure if I had to go back to a normal office situation, I’d struggle with it.
Chrissie Wellington: The Mind Over Body Battle – And you think you suffer? Love hearing how this affects even the super-humans.
Easily Monitor and Manage all of your WordPress Sites with WP Remote – Thanks to @mwender for this one. Great time saver
Google Turns Turtle and Takes Street View Underwater – Coming soon to iPhone5!
Alternative ways to ride The Downward Spiral – I created a Spotify playlist based on this. A couple of the songs weren’t in Spotify, but I found some good substitutes. Just reading this makes me afeared.
Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Right Now? – Is it wrong that this seems completely reasonable (and likely) to me?
Solo or Group? Train Your Way – I’ve been opting for the solo route a lot lately. It’s quiet.
How To Determine Your Long Run Training For Any Triathlon Distance – Some really good info here. It’s hard to train for a distance event and fill like you got enough running in. The truth is, you really just can’t, but you can get the optimal amount.
Accessing SharePoint Lists with SQL Server Integration Services SSIS 2005 –
Raising Children To Become Productive Adults – In short, walk it like you talk it. Applies to pretty much everything in life.
Simple Tips to Help Your Grocery Budget – As always, thanks to @couponkatie for all the amazing tips and deals she points us to!
A Glass All Empty – When your S.O. gets on the wagon. Both of us are for the most part…one due to pregnancy and nursing, the other due to choosing brownie calories over beer calories. Must to get faster, and those calories slows me down.
The best thing Google could do today to snag some market share in the photo sharing space would be to get SnapSeed updated to share directly to Twitter (and play nicely while doing it). Leave the photos of kids and puppies to Istagram/Facebook and get the really good photographers who haven’t moved to Google+ yet get their feet wet with the easy Twitter integration. They’ll inevitably share to G+ while they’re at it.
I can’t help but think Instgram has really screwed up by starting this fight with Twitter.
Facebook and G+ are such different things, and one area where G+ destroys Facebook is in photography. Production and consumption there is so far beyond what is possible on Facebook.
Here’s the transcription of a voicemail I received from the YMCA today inviting me to join up:
Hi, this is all of that a volunteer at the center align today. This is a courtesy call to let you back to alive. If you’re enjoying by 7:30 1st still a vagina see if you have any questions, just call ###-####. Thank you.
If this had been an accurate transcription, I may have actually returned the call!
Dear gmail: give me a way to act on an email (“Like”, “Thanks”, “Will Do”, etc) by just pushing a button. Let me configure these myself. If the original sender is a gmail/Google apps user, actions can just appear as attributes of original message with a browser notification if that’s what the sender is configured for. If outside, or if the sender wants message notifications to continue, go ahead and send the person an email for me.
But don’t make me type these things out a hundred times a day.
Even better–you could give me the option to white-list individuals to turn their messages into Google+ posts instead of emails from my perspective and I can just +1 them from there.
Thanks!
Scott
On the mobile app, when I take a photo to post to G+, why isn’t there a step in there that lets me apply a filter a la Instagram? Seems like a feature they could implement pretty easily, but it’s not there.
At least give this to users with Android devices, you know?
I’m sure I’m not alone in receiving those emails with ‘FW:” in the subject line. That’s why I continue to lose interest in Facebook. It has increasingly become a place where many people post everything from the ‘net they deem neat.
I remember telling someone 4 or 5 years ago how Facebook was so great because it wasn’t all spammy like MySpace. That and, “your mom isn’t on there”. Guess where your mom is now? And feel lucky if people are posting the forwards on Facebook instead of continuing to email them. My prediction is that it’s about to get a lot worse…wait and see what Facebook’s earnings are today. Now that they’re beholden to shareholders, something’s going to have to be done to increase their revenues.
There will be ads. Lots of ads. Right along-side all that useless content.
Invest a week into really using Plus. I mean really using it. It doesn’t disappoint.
Well…unless you want them to open up the API. Tick tock.
Pocket Chainsaw – Genius! Please develop a pocket band saw and forklift as well please.
A Marathon of Measurements – I’m glad someone wants to do this. Wish there were more of these guys.
2:16 Marathoner Says He Can Break 2:00 – If he didn’t have to work. I could do it too…if I didn’t weight 200 lbs, had a coach and dietitian, and more flexibility in my hips. Oh yeah, I’d like a shoe sponsor as well. Geesh.
Custom themes in Gmail – Add photos to your gmail theme…cool!
The Libraries, Studies, and Writing Rooms of 15 Famous Men – Counting down the days to the time when I will take the room I want for my office!
Choose, Lace, and Replace Your Running Shoes Based on How You Run – Hopefully this will make a bigger difference than the podiatrist did.
Twitter moves toward the news system of the future – Or, as it is known in many circles, Google+
Better With Age – This is comforting
Thinking of going this route – FIRST marathon training plan
Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City – Awsum.
A Simple, Responsive, Mobile First Navigation
Google Semantic Search: Bad for SEO, Good for You – Make your SEO money now!
How to make hard-to-obtain Sudafed from readily available street meth. – I’m on week 3 of a cough/cold. Haven’t resorted to medication yet, but at least this gives me options.
U.S. water bills to triple – Don’t worry…someone will declare it a right since it’s necessarily for life. That will magically make it “free”.
Skateboard Swing – Building this in 3, 2, 1…
Acer Iconia Tab A500ICS updates coming in April – This article complains that the update isn’t coming soon enough. I’m teaching my kids to be happy with what you have. Not everyone is getting ICS.
HTC: Updates to Ice Cream Sandwich in March – This will make March creep by. Maybe I should take out a 30 day loan to speed up time?
Contador loses Tour de France title – Finally someone else will get the chance to be crowned the best dirty cyclist in the game.
Masters athletes keep their muscle with age – “The authors also note that it’s these aspects of aging that tend to increase health care costs, so if each individual continues to develop their muscles as they age, the exercise could channel those unspent billions back into the economy.”
Does this mean taxpayers should be subsidizing my training?
Google added some really nice touches to Plus Photos yesterday–pretty lightboxes, and better navigation for tagging and comments.
But there are a couple of problems I still have…
Photos and Picasa are basically the same thing now, but in order to manage my albums, I have to go over to Picasa and move/copy/delete. There isn’t any album management available in Plus anywhere. Kind of weird.
I’d also love to have stuff like red eye elimination available in Plus.
I know Google is releasing new features to Plus every day, but I don’t get why they haven’t included some very basic photo management and editing functionality yet.
Apple to Make Remote Obsolete? – Because sitting on your ass staring at a screen just isn’t easy enough yet. For some people, the only exercise they get is lifting sofa cushions to look for the remote.
How to Get a Personalized Financial Plan Without Spending a Fortune – Awesome idea, but not sure if I like the idea of giving up the personal attention. Then again, I don’t like the idea of giving up $100 an hour for personal attention.
Signs Of A Slowdown Are Obvious (In China) – They should probably borrow some money to work on that wall thing. You know, infrastructure and all.
7 Steps for Building A Mobile Future In Your Enterprise
Gmail to Unveil New Interface – Unlike FB, I think something Google can really leverage is becoming a place you live, not a site you visit. This looks much more like G+.
100-Year-Old Man Completes Marathon – How old are you?
Facebook Missteps and Shortcomings – Exhibit F.
Heart Rate Training Zone Calculator – Will have to do until I write one. Which will be tomorrow plus infinity.
Page Speed Online – Woot…super useful tool.
Will the New Facebook Lead to Information Overload? – What he said.
Google Financing Solar Installations – This looks interesting. If the cost is the same as your typical electric bill and you don’t have to worry about the maintenance, what’s the downside? Thinking you could also get your pool heated this way. Yeah…I’m thinking.
I’ve shared plenty of photos from my phone on Google+, but in the last couple of days I’ve started uploading larger albums there. The display of photo albums within Plus is very nice (waaaaaaaay cleaner than Facebook), and if you upload through Plus instead of Picasa, your photos get auto-resized and don’t count towards your Picasa limits:
If you’ve signed up for Google+
Free storage limits
Photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards your free storage.
Automatic resizing
All photos uploaded in Google+ will be automatically resized to 2048 pixels (on their longest edge) and won’t count towards your free storage quota.
Well, sorta. You can only have 10,000 albums and you can only have 1,000 photos within an album. Maybe not enough for pros, but plenty for people who just want to share with the fam.
So all you have to do to back up all of your photos is upload them through Plus set to private. Then go over to Picasa, create new albums and move/copy photos into them to share.
My one complaint is that the beautiful photo album layouts we see on the Plus website haven’t made it to the Android applications yet. It would be nice to get the same broad overview when browsing photos on a tablet.
Every day I read something about how lame Google Plus is because no one is using it. That’s not the impression I’m getting. I see it being used a lot, although mostly by people who presumably can’t stand Facebook.
But that’s not an insignificant number of people.
And yesterday Google announced that Plus is now publicly available (no invite needed) and unleashed a plethora of new features. Facebook has been launching new stuff rapidly lately too, which pretty much indicates that they’re worried about Plus. Don’t believe that? Take note of the way they’re now automatically organizing your friends into Circles lists for you. Yesterday they made some major UI changes with the change to the news feed and the ticker.
When I was a more frequent Facebook user, I was very amused by the complaints from users when Facebook made small UI changes. It’s going to be worth visiting in the next few days to read what will best described as outrage over the mess they’ve created with these changes. This week’s analogy:
Netflix is to name change as Facebook is to UI change
We’ll see, but this misstep could make Plus even more viable. Robert Scoble is betting everything on Plus. And I’m becoming more and more convinced that Google has the best shot at winning the long game. Facebook has lots of users, but it completely lacks anything resembling organization and long term direction.
Data likes to be organized, and users like simple things that don’t change much.
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