Google Tech Talk: All The Information In The World, The Way You Want

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Google tech talk - Dynamics of real-world networks

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Official Google Mac Blog: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts

Official Google Mac Blog: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts:

"The Address Book application in Mac OS X 10.5.3 now lets iPhone users sync their Address Book with Google Contacts. To try it, go to the Address Book menu, choose Preferences, and then check Synchronize with Google. It’ll ask for your Google account and password, then automatically update your contacts every time you sync your iPhone."

Looks like the ability only exists for people with iPhones. I don't have an option to sync with Google and I don't have an iPhone. At least I learned that you can sync with Yahoo/Exchange (Address Book -> Preferences).

friendfeed

Blame twitter...

Steve Gillmor has this article up on techcrunch titled "Blame Friendfeed".

In it he says:

"FriendFeed is a parasite service built on the back of Twitter"

What an unfair and provocative thing to say!

As a user, I joined friendfeed for the following reasons:
1. Aggregate all my RSS feeds (del.icio.us, blog, flickr and so on) in one place
2. To join in conversation around my RSS feeds and other peoples aggregated feeds

Do you see twitter in their above? In fact, twitter got in the way of me achieving the two items above. My first use for the friendfeed hide function was to hide all the twitter stuff. Their are a lot of people who like twitter and use it, but I'm just not one of them. My use of twitter is very limited, as opposed to my use of friendfeed. And friendfeed does a really good job of the two things I outlined above.

I'm just really surprised that someone like Steve Gillmor would write a rant as an opinionated user of twitter, and have techcrunch publish it. I have nothing to do with either service (twitter or friendfeed). Just like Steve, I'm an opinionated user (but of friendfeed) and this is my unresearched rant. Maybe this should go up on techcrunch too.

kubuntu developer jonathan riddel talks about kde4 in ubuntu intrepid release

UDS Prague (Intrepid Ibex) - Jonathan Riddell


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friendfeed sysadmin room

friendfeed sysadmin room

public room... please join, post and discuss! :)

Firefox 3 memory usage

I thought firefox 3 was supposed to be less of memory hog?

Video: Robert Scoble at mediabistro circus

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I hadn't realized how interesting snackr is, until I saw it running in the background on Scobles desktop. Its installed now.

Google Tech Talk : New IO in JDK 7

 

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A Possible Future of Software Development

 

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searching for a delicious client for windows...

I've been searching for a del.icio.us client for windows, and its been driving me crazy!

I download one client, it requires dotnet framework 2, I download another its requires version 1.somethingortheother! What is Microsoft thinking? Why has it become so hard to run windows applications. Who thought this was a good idea for developing desktop applications?

Heck programming applications in Python is easier. At least you can use py2exe to create an executable that will work on any windows!

On google doctype

John Resig does a nice article on Google Doctype.

Update: Here is video of Mark Pilgrim on Google Doctype:

Python and IDE's

Jonathan Ellis has a short run down of Utah Python User group where they talked about IDE's and Python.

He points to a nice write up of the Emacs and Python presentation here.

The write up for the *other* editor is here. :->

failed harddrives

I'm seeing more and more hard drive failures all around. I'm hearing clicking noises from one of my hard drives too. Thankfully I have everything replicated on multiple machines so I don't have to go running to backup.

It was amusing to see two tweets back to back about hard drive failures:

Anybody else seeing hard drive problems? Is it the season for hard drive FAIL?

Python and Unicode

Good presentation here on Python and Unicode.

The most important slide for me says:

s.decode(encoding)
     * <type 'str'> to <type 'unicode'>

u.encode(encoding)
     * <type 'unicode'> to <type 'str'>

Cocoahead videos

 

Debugging with Xcode

Two cool videos from cocoahead. Debugging with Xcode embedded above, and UI Design Essentials which can be downloaded from Scott Stevenson's site.

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Mozilla, Acid3 and Mark

I'd been waiting for someone more influential than me to comment on the Acid3 test situation. Looks like Mark Pilgrim stepped up...

twhirl memory usage

I've had twhirl running for a while, and the twhirl memory usage is really growing:

Restarting the application brings the memory usage down:

How FreeBSD Project works

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