Ever wondered how POP, IMAP, SMTP and other cryptic protocols work? Well, Google has created a video that explains everything :)
How to send an e-mail?
August
29,
2007
Google · How to? · Humour
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Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen
July
19,
2007
This video is absolutely amazing!
You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world” using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data [...]
Act Now · Google
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How to export “shared” Google Reader items?
July
8,
2007
If you are an avid Google Reader user (like me) you must be surely be “sharing” items that you read, for you or for your audience; in my case, you can see my recent “shared items” in the sidebar at the right side of this screen.
But can you export these shared items to a file? [...]
Google · How to?
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Google Everywhere
March
21,
2007
It all started with the search engine. I think it was sometime back in 2000, while I was working in Argentina.
I was an avid everyday AltaVista user; I found it quite useful since 1996 (when I started browsing using Netscape at the University of Geneva) and I was frankly happy with it; I was not [...]
Google · Opinion
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Have your office online
January
5,
2007
Need to collaborate with others for the creation of some document? Need to share information with your peers? Want to stop sending those bulky (Open | MS)Office documents via e-mail?
Here’s what you need:
Word processing and Spreadsheet
Diagramming
Lately more and more of my documents are going online. I must say that while I love Gliffy.com, I would [...]
Google · Opinion · Technology
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Links of the day
November
20,
2006
Just a couple of interesting links:
Getting Real, the book by 37signals
Google TechTalks; feed your brain
Happy learning!
Books · Google · Technology
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BSD is Dying
November
10,
2006
Just found this INCREDIBLE and HILARIOUS presentation from Jason Dixon, with all the truth about how BSD is slowly dying…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7833143728685685343&hl=en
You can download it from here too. Don’t miss it!
Apple · Google · Microsoft · Open Source · Technology
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Do-it-yourself, now and then
November
2,
2006
Beginning 1998, nearly 9 years ago, I created this tool at my former employer’s site. It allowed customers to create their own web page, for a small fee, using all the interaction available at the time of Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer 4. You could type some text here and there, choose some (awful, really) [...]
Argentina · Code · Google · Opinion
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Google project hosting
November
1,
2006
This is something that existed for a while but I just did not notice, at all: http://code.google.com/hosting/. You can host there any kind of project, open source of course, and you get for free:
Subversion
Password-protected;
Over a secure HTTPS connection for committers;
Also open to others to freely checkout using HTTP;
Browsable online, using something similar to websvn.
Issue tracking
Very [...]
Code · Google
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Posting remotely… from Google Docs & Spreadsheets!
October
12,
2006
Posting from Google Docs & Spreadsheets …
This is a test posting from what used to be Writely, the online word processing tool; it turns out that you can use it to publish in your blog, just using the API that is exposed by Wordpress!