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How I write my daily Tech Universe column

Tech Universe.

RSS feeds in NetNewsWire, Google and Twitter searches, Applescript and BBEdit make it (relatively) quick and easy for me to find the Tech Universe links that appear in the NZ Herald and here. Here’s how it works for me.

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Spoiled by Chrome

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In the couple of weeks I’ve been using it Google Chrome has taught me that there need only be one box.

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Google adds real-time search

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Google search results now include real-time content from twitter, blogs and other sources.

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How to work with Gmail Labels

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Gmail doesn’t have mailboxes. Instead it uses the much more powerful Labels.

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Are you thinking video?

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YouTube has taken hold of the public imagination. Are you working with that fact, or are you being sidelined?

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Customise the WordPress Search results page

Another in my series of Peachpit Web Design Reference Guide WordPress articles was published the other day — Customizing WordPress 2.5.1: Search: After arriving at your blog, visitors may want to search for specific items you have written about. Make sure visitors have easy access to Search and that results are useful to them. This [...]

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Gmail Labs adds date and search features I like

I switched to Google Apps last year for my FirstBite domain. For US$50 per year I have 26Gb of space available for email, some templated web pages, a calendar, Google Docs, and the power of Google. Gmail is particularly useful and I surprised myself by switching to using the web interface. I find the threaded [...]

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Use the power of Gmail search

Since I switched my email to Google Apps I actually use the web interface almost exclusively. And I often find myself searching for emails. Fortunately Gmail has powerful search criteria, so finding the message I’m looking for is generally quite quick. The Official Gmail Blog provides a few tips in a recent post: But the [...]

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Search a specific site with Google

Many websites don’t have a search function and on many others the search function doesn’t work well. And anyway, with a search box in the toolbar of most browsers, it’s often quicker to search a particular site directly from Google. Here’s how. [First published March 2003.] I like some variety when I walk our dogs, [...]

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Track yourself with Google News Alerts

In the past it was difficult, time consuming and expensive to monitor the news. Now we have Google News Alerts. [First published February 2004. There are now many more tools you can use to track mentions of yourself or your projects, but Google Alerts remains very useful.] Your community group or business needs to monitor [...]

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