Synchronise Lotus Notes with Google Calendar
Monday, January 11th, 2010There’s a lot of software for synchronising various webmail or MS Outlook Calendars with Google Calendar. However, there’s not that much around about synchronising Lotus Notes calendars….
At the moment there are three methods that I have used or know of.
goosync
I use a Nokia N95. It synchronises it’s calendar with Lotus Notes using the [...]
Apollo 11 Source Code on GoogleCode
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009The Google Code guys have been busy getting some of the source code for the Apollo 11 spacecraft online.
On this day 40 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. This was quite an achievement for mankind and a key milestone in world history.
To commemorate this event [...]
Has Gmail gone all AOL on us ?
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008I am was a great fan of gmail. Lots of storage (I haven’t deleted anything since June 2004), excellent spam filtering, accessible from anywhere that has a ‘net conenction (including my phone).
Unfortunately, I loved it so much that its entrenched in all my Social Nets, personal contacts, domain registrations etc. Unfortunate, [...]
Make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Friday, August 1st, 2008If you rely on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog that describes how to to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client (i.e. the mail client that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
You’ll need to [...]
Export the Feeds from a Google Reader Folder
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Most feed readers let you import and export subscriptions using the OPML format. For Google Reader, you find this option in Settings > Import/Export. But what happens if you want to export the feeds from a single folder so you can share them with a friend or upload them to a site? Google Reader [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisGoogle Docs now have templates
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Google Documents now have templates
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisFinding the name behind the gmail address
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008From the SecuriTeam blog
You can get hold of the first name / last name behind a gmail / google account. There’s a bug / feature in the google ecosphere that displays the first / last name associated with an account when you share a google calendar with that account.
A different way of getting [...]
Backup Your iGoogle Page
Friday, May 9th, 2008
from GoogleSystem at Blogspot.com:
iGoogle (the personalized Google homepage), offers two options to backup your gadgets and feeds at the bottom of the settings page.
There’s an option to backup the iGoogle page on Google’s servers. While this may seem pointless, it’s useful to backup your page before adding gadgets that might create problems.
This is [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisGoogle data center locations
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Pingdom (a paid service that, amongst other things, can alert you when your site is down) put together a map of Google data centers based on approximate information from the unofficial Google Data Center FAQ. From Pingdom :
If you include data centers that are under construction, Google has 19 locations in the US where they [...]
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008From the Official Australian Google Blog:
An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In [...]