typewriting tag: google

QOTD: Chocolate Bars for Everyone

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:17:10 -0700

In the end, if 70% of the people will give their password for a chocolate bar, why not at least help them do it from multiple computers? Thanks Google Browser Sync.

— Elias Torres. I don’t have much faith in the accuracy of that chocolate bar password survey, but still …

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Google hCalendar

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:24:52 -0700

Google hCalendar is a Firefox Greasemonkey script I made. It looks for pages with vevents and inserts a button to add each found event to Google Calendar. ~~I'm still working out some time zone oddities~~ Apparently many of the sites using hCalendar have improper time zone markup (e.g. every event is marked as UTC-7 at Upcoming.org), but it otherwise seems to work fine. Now I'm looking forward to my free book. Oddly enough, I'm actually working on another project right now in exchange for free magazines. You can keep your attention economy; I'm going back to bartering. Will code for interesting reading.

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Google Alternate Search

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:53:55 -0700

At first I didn't like the results Google recently started inserting for searches I maybe should have made instead of what I actually searched for. I'm pretty smart, you see, and I don't need to be bothered by Google treating me like a fool, assuming I don't know what I'm looking for.

And that was basically my thinking up until I searched for something unfamiliar and wasn't entirely clear what I was looking for, and Google gave me some results for what I would have been searching for if I knew what I was doing. At that point I found the functionality very useful.

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