links for 2007-04-05

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  Daring Fireball: A Quick, Possibly Incomplete Guide to What Gets Installed by the Google Desktop Installer
  
  
  Google Desktop for Mac OS X installs a lot of files, and they’re installed into some interesting locations.
  
  
  (tags: google desktop macosx)
  
  


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  CSS Naked Day
  
  
  The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards.
  
  
  (tags: css design html web webdesign)
  
  

One True Media and TiVo

I just tried the One True Media service.  One True Media lets you create and share videos from your photos or videos.  You can then share these videos in several ways:

• html code to embed flash player on various sites


• Share via email


• Create a link to the video hosted on One True Media site


• Send to a mobile phone


• Share to a TiVo Channel

The last one is what I am interested in.  We have been sharing our videos with our family by either burning them on DVD or posting a copy on the web.  Sending the video to family members who have TiVo DVRs is a great way to share family videos.

LineIn

When I am at work, I usually wear headphones connected to my laptop, so I can listen to music or podcasts while also being able to hear instant messenger notifications.  But, sometimes, I want to listen to music on my portable music player.

Previously, this would mean that I wouldn't be able to hear instant message notifications, since the headphones would be connected to the player and not my computer.

LineIn is a free utility that lets me listen to my portable player, and computer audio.  What it does is let you configure that the audio on any input gets mixed an audio output

[via TUAW]

links for 2007-04-04

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  Orbicule | Undercover
  
  
  A unique theft-recovery application designed from the ground up for Mac OS X.
  
  
  (tags: securtiy macosx mac laptop theft)
  
  

Google Desktop for Mac

Google just released Google Desktop for Mac.  This adds searching and indexing of:

• PDF, TXT and HTML files


• email for Apple Mail and Microsoft Entourage


• iChat chats


• Word, Excel, PowerPoint files


• Address Book contacts

Spotlight also supports searching these thing, but Google Desktop also search the text of web pages that you have visited.  Also, you can search text in older versions of your document, even if they have been deleted.

I have installed it and it is working well, though the index hasn't completed yet.

Download link

[via Google Operating System, TUAW]

links for 2007-04-02

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  GooSync
  
  
  Synchronization your Google Calendar with your mobile phone
  
  
  (tags: google calendar sync mobile synchronization)
  
  


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  The Missing Sync for Windows Mobile
  
  
  The Missing Sync for Windows Mobile lets you easily connect and synchronize Pocket PCs and smartphones with your Mac.
  
  
  (tags: mac osx windows mobile synchronization)
  
  

Multifunction print server

This weekend, we reorganized the closet in our office.  I took this as an opportunity to move out Deskjet 812C to our kids iMac.  I am going to setup the free (after rebate) printer that we got with the Mac Book Pro.  I am going to try to use the Linksys PSUS4 again with this printer.

One problem with this solution is that we will not be able to access all of the functions of the printer.  While the printer is connected to the print server, we will not be able to use the scanner.  We will have to disconnect the USB cable from the print server, and connect it to our computers.