I wrote yesterday about my first impressions with the Google Plus social network. One of the things I really like is the ability to segment my social graph into circles and share content with subsets of the people I know. When you place someone into a Google+ Circle the person knows that they are in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I keep getting emails in my inbox that people have added me to their Google+ circle. I have social network exhaustion having moved from Friendster and Ryze to MySpace and LinkedIn and on to Orkut and then to Facebook. I really have no desire to ever sign up for another social network ever. But I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had an unofficial New Years resolution for myself to update this site more often. So far I’m not off to a great start in 2009. I have created a Google profile for myself, as Google now includes profiles in their search results. It’s funny; I don’t have a particularly common name and yet results […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve written a lot here about the iPhone Sync in a Blink application. Recently Google has released their own mobile sync solution. It masquerades as an Exchange server from the iPhone’s perspective and offers automatic wireless over the air syncing. While running Sync in a Blink to manually sync contacts is not a huge burden […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I downloaded version 2.1 of Sync in a Blink last night and to my delight, the app now supports editing contact groups. I had written about my somewhat complicated procedure for putting contacts into a specific contact group and then sycning with Google contacts. Having this capability integrated into the app is definitely better. Unfortunately […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest version of the Sync in a Blink iPhone app supports Google Contact Groups. This is a wonderful feature addition, as Google adds all correspondents to its “Suggested Contacts” group which then sync down to the iPhone which probably isn’t desirable. I don’t really want all the mailing lists and support email addresses I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I’ve written before, I am a big user of Google Apps for Domains services. This includes e-mail and contacts, but also calendar services. I have tried a lot of online calendar services, but Google’s calendar meets my needs the best. The big down side has always been the lack of proper mobile support. Google […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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