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Google has not come up with a way to share Google Tasks yet. However, someone has created a service that will do this for you. Go to http://isynctasks.appspot.com/ and login with your Google Account. You specific which list you want to share and who you want to share it with. Once that other person logs into the …
Speaking of PDFs, ghacks had a recent posting where they highlighted PDF Shaper. It looks like a good tool. Check it out…
I posted about a partitioning tool recently which I was very impressed with. I found another one that seems equally impressive. Parted Magic does much of the same things. Check it out…
I recent got a Samsung Galaxy Gio for my wife. It is working great, but the built-in memory is small. I’ve read online that there are options for “tricking” the phone into thinking that an ext2 formatted partition on the SD card is part of the phone memory. I’ve been following instructions at http://androidforums.com/ace-all-things-root/422781-tut-how-install-darktremors-a2sd-froyo.html and http://androidforums.com/gio-all-things-root/404425-internal-memory-full.html but …
I use VLC for all of my media playing. It is amazing. It plays almost any file, and the various startup and playlist options just can’t be beat. In fact, I just recently ran a 1 1/2 hour meeting where there were a couple of different videos played. I used VLC to play various segments …
Have you seen the Google Earth Clock? If not, you really should! The site shows you the current time, and uses shapes from Google Maps to display the numbers. When I took this screenshot it was 12:34
I, like many people, still use RSS feeds a lot. I have a Google Account and use Google Reader several times a day. As you’ve no doubt heard, Google Reader will be discontinued as of July 1, 2013. To put it mildy, this sucks! I don’t understand why Google doesn’t just leave it up. They …
The company I work for has been using Novell 4.11 for a long time. It might be old, but it works great. After all these years, Microsoft still doesn’t have Active Directory working as easily as NDS (in my opinion). Anyway, we are finally migrating to Active Directory, and one of the big challenges is login …
The New York Times has a helpful article today about online resources to manage a kid’s chores and allowance. I haven’t read through it fully yet, but it mentions several sites including FamZoo, ThreeJars, Count My Beanz, My Job Chart and Tykoon. I briefly checked out MyJobChart and Tykoon, and they both seem pretty good.
The Guardian (UK) has a cool video recreating Usain Bolt’s gold medal winning run in the 100m race. The best part is is that it is done all in LEGO!