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See Today’s Schedule In A Small Google Calendar Desktop Application
I’ve been intrigued by an application called Today that gives a quick overview of what you have on your calendar for today and places it in a nice little window on your desktop. However, for $20 I wasn’t sure that I needed it. So, I found a way to create a similar, but not as cool, app using the iPhone version of Google Calendar.
For free, I’m able to get an overview of my schedule for today, for this month, and the ability to add new events. Plus it works on Mac and Windows.
Should Web Developers Switch To Google Chrome?
Nettuts+ tries to make the argument that web developers should switch to Google Chrome but I’m not buying it.
Their reasoning?
- It’s cross platform. – But so is Safari, Firefox and Opera.
- Web Inspector – Which Safari also has.
- Extensions – Which Firefox has many more of, and better ones too.
It’s a nice article, but nothing too convincing unless you’ve never checked out the same features in Firefox and Safari.
I’m sticking with Firefox as my Firebug extension is indispensable and Firebug light just doesn’t cut it.
Gruml – Google Reader Desktop Application for Mac
Gruml is a desktop feed reader application that is completely integrated with Google Reader. Unlike some other programs that claim to do the same, Gruml does more than just show you your feeds.
Gruml includes:
- Share this article.
- Star this article.
- Like this article.
- Mark as Unread, which also marks the item un-read in Google Reader.
- Tweet this article.
- Send this article to Digg, Delicious, Instazaper, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, Posterous, MySpace and more.
- Write a note to go along with an article.
- Mange labels and organize your labels.
yExplore 2.1 Now With More SEO and Web Developer Love
yExplore 2.1 has been released with loads of new shortcuts for SEOs and web developers!
yExplore 2.0 Screenshot
yExplore still offers quick and easy access to Yahoo Site Explorer, but now also offers:
- Google Backlinks, Inindex, Cache
- Archive.org
- So you can see how the site has progressed over the years. - Bing Inindex
- Delicious saves for a domain.
- How many bookmarks appear in Delicious for the domain you are on.
- How many times the current page you are on has been bookmarked - Highlighting of NoFollow links.
- In bright red so you can’t miss them.
Google Chrome Themes Are Mac Friendly
Google recently launched a theme gallery for Chrome. Much to my enjoyment, these themes are Mac friendly too and can be used with the latest development builds of Chrome.
These themes can’t even begin to compare to some of the great Firefox themes, but it’s nice start.
How To Get Google Chrome’s Start Page in Firefox
Since I’ve been playing with Google Chrome, I’ve wanted the start page to be available in Firefox. There are a number of extensions and work arounds, but none that actually work well. That was until I found the Google Toolbar.
A new feature in Google Toolbar 5 is Chrome’s start page functionality. Once you install the toolbar on Firefox, you’ll get the option of enabling it.
One downside I found, other than having to install the whole toolbar, is that it only worked on new tabs, not on new windows. I did some fiddling and was able to work around that by adding the following URL as Firefox’s home page in the preferences.
Hello Google Chromium for Mac
We’ve been waiting and waiting for Google Chrome to come out for the Mac and, unfortunately, we have to wait some more. Unless, that is, you are adventurous. If you are, you can download Google Chromium; the development version of Google Chrome for Mac.
The good news here is that Google Chromium works pretty well. I’ve been running it for a few days with no crashes. It seems speedy, renders pages well and really impressed me for a pre-alpha browser.
My Google Business Cards
I just received my free Google business cards in the mail.
No, I don’t work for Google, but it’s a promotional item for Google’s profile pages. Pretty sweet if you ask me.
Ohh and you can see my Google profile here.
How does Google crawl the iTunes Store?
Last I checked, a web page had to be on the web in order for Google to crawl the page and serve it up in search results. But then how does it crawl iTunes?
On a recent search for “implus iphone application” I came across the iTunes store page ranked at #8 in Google.
Yes, the iTunes Store may be built on WebKit, or some sort of web application on the back end, but how exactly does Google get there? Does the Googlebot run iTunes? Ohh there is a possibility.
GA? – Google Anlytics Extension – Turns 1.0
I finally dug into GA? and figured out how to take it to the next level!
GA? now checks the entire HTML page to see if it contains Google Analytics code. Prior to 1.0, it only checked for analytics code within the body of a page.
GA? is a Firefox extension that automatically detects if Google Analytics is installed on a web page and displays the result in your status bar. For more details see the GA? – Is Google Analytics Installed page.
GA? is also ready for Firefox 3. 
