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Import your blog into facebook!  This can be a great marketing tool.

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There are many benefits to having a blog on WordPress.  Most people enjoy the beautiful interface and plethora of plugins.  I like that the software is open-source and free to download.  This means that you can have a WordPress blog on your personal domain for free.

Have a Blogger account but want the functionality of WordPress? It’s easy to make the switch, let me show you.

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According to a study by Catalyst Group Design, mainstream consumers typically do not understand RSS, what it stands for or what it does.  They recognize the brightly colored xml or rss buttons, while not knowing the intended use.

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A week or so back, Google announced offline support for Gmail. With Google Gears installed and Offline turned on in your Gmail labs, you can actively read and create emails while disconnected from the internet. In addition, if you are connected to laggy internet, you will notice that your Gmail is fast as ever.

Now, still beaming about this ‘milestone’, Google shows off the new mobile interface for Gmail. Get this, offline support! And labels! Using technology introduced with HTTP5, the Safari browser is able to cache your Gmail.

Props to AndroidCommunity.com for this sneak peek.

It’s lookin’ good people. That is, google’s support of the iPhone. In a previous post I mentioned that google added official support for push calendar and contact synchronization. What that means is that when you make a new date or edit a contact, the information is instantly synchronized to and from google’s servers. So if you make a new contact using Google’s Contact Manager, it should show up in your phone instantly. Same with your events on Google Calendar.

cancer.  damn cancer.  lucky for us there are scientists.  a routine urine test for sarcosine can detect prostate cancer.  a ‘danger recepter‘ that may kick-start an immune reaction to cancer.  a missing link in the way cells protect themselves against cancer.  something tells me were going to end up on top of this one.

one man’s dream to free the public access of the court electronic records.  tell governor paterson and the state legislature to stop stealing from SUNY students.  1970s space colony artwork.

if you’re a fan of old-school video games like sonic, mario, metroid etc.. check out these awesome renderings of what those originals could look like with today’s hardware.

mario batali and anthony bourdain talk about essential ingredients, baby food, and sex.

edit google spreadsheets on your iPhone and remotely set off farts.

john cleese is on twitter and making new funnies.

verizon says 100GBS by 2010.

google accused of invisibly deleting music blog posts.  google ajax APIs.

firefox extension add-art replaces advertisements with art.

and here’s a great iPhone screencast showing off reddit’s new app

I’m going to suggest you sign up for twitter regardless of your understanding of it. Import your address book, search for your favorite celebs: @elimanning, @Michael_Phelps, @LukeWilson, @algore, @MCHammer, @THE_REAL_SHAQ, @lancearmstrong, @snoopdogg, etc.. build from there.

If you don’t know how to use twitter, google ‘how do i use twitter’ to have your wildest dreams come alive.

After a few weeks I had close to 200 followers, now at week 4 I have 800. I’d like to say my following is growing exponentially, or at some growing rate, but we’ll see in weeks. I‘m not going to keep count of who follows me and when, that’s what twittercounter is for. twittercounter keeps track of your follow history and graphs them on a nice interactive chart.

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Google made it official, push synchronization support for the iPhone. You can now synchronize your contacts and calendars between the iPhone and Google. This was possible before using a third-party microsoft exchange server, but now it’s official.

Props to Marcus Foster, Product Manager @ Google

Most popular web browsers for macs cannot go full-screen. This is a feature I used regularly before my recent switch to mac (which, by the way, has been fantastic!)

Now I am happy to say that once again Google Reader is full-screened and I am loving life :]

All thanks to Plainview. The menubar autohides and the app supports shortcuts that feel intuitive to me: command+L brings up the location bar, command+T toggles your full-screened windows.

Props to Creative Applications for this screencast.

Plainview [Mac] // CreativeApplications.Net // Vimeo.

watch in HD // harrisonpowers // vimeo.

Ahoy there!  The internet is a vast sea of treachery and deceit, but with the correct guidance one can find bountiful treasures. I have sailed to the far corners of the dark web and have survived to tell some tales. Add me to your feed reader and I shall reward you with jewels of knowledge. What’s that? You don’t know what a feed reader is? Well onto our first lesson then..