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@seankovacs: Hoppin’ mad that …

edith — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:47:35 +0000

@seankovacs: Hoppin’ mad that Apple & AT&T pulled the plug on GV Mobile. Keep my money, you deserve it for making a great app. #downwithatt #

I heart Google Voice

edith — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:33:46 +0000

Google Voice is a fantastic (and free!) new service that you really ought to try if you can get your hands on an invite. Hard to explain, but it’s a universal number that you use to route your phone calls & text messages to whichever phone you happen to be using at that moment. If you have multiple phones, you can have calls routed to your work phone during the day and to your home or cellphone after hours. You can ring any or all your phones at once, and whichever one you pick up is the one that gets the call. If you’re hiking on the Appalachian trail and out of cellular range, route your number to the landline in your cabin. You can make lists of your contacts and send different people to different phones… work contacts to work, friends to your cellphone? You can record different greetings — say, a short one for friends and a longer “I can’t come to the phone right now” type message for unknown callers. (I made special personalized greetings for my mom and my dad.) You can block callers or send certain people straight to voicemail every time. All your voicemails and text messages are archived on the web for you, and the best part? Everything can be transcribed into text… and if you like, the transcription can be rocketed off to you via direct SMS and/or e-mail. Sometimes the transcription can be comically off, but it seems to work well enough to give you a general idea of what the caller’s going on about without having to actually listen to the message. There are a lot more features; it’s a very deep service with a bit of a learning curve, but it’s well worth the bit of extra effort you’ll need to become a true GV ninja.

Google Voice is currently in beta with some sort of waiting list for invites; I was lucky in that I had an old account with Grand Central, which later got bought by Google, spiffed up and turned into the current service. Everybody on Grand Central got the option to turn their account into a Google Voice one, so that’s what I did. I wasn’t crazy about the number GC had originally given me but I was able to pay a one-time fee of ten bucks to get a new & more memorable one in the area code of my choosing. So now, no matter where I move off to, no matter where I’m staying or what phone I happen to be close to, I can always get my calls routed to the best place. I can give out one number that’ll (in theory) follow me around for the rest of my life… knock on wood that those years be many.

My dad called to get me to exp…

edith — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:09:32 +0000

My dad called to get me to explain what RSS is. He wants to use it! I am so proud. Google Reader, here he comes. #

I’m only the seventh Edith in …

edith — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:44:28 +0000

I’m only the seventh Edith in Google! Isn’t that special. #

Google Calendar Adds CalDAV Support

edith — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:46:28 +0000

Now we’re talkin’…

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Google Docs Adds PDF Uploads and Previews

edith — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:17:52 +0000

This feature was added to my account the other day — it was letting me upload but wouldn’t display the PDF. Now it displays beautifully, but I’m noticing the search is a little wonky. I expect they’ll fix that soon though — they are Google!

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Folders4Gmail

edith — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:33:27 +0000

Greasemonkey script to automatically arrange your labels in a folder-like collapsible hierarchy

Searching from the Address Bar

edith — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:57:00 +0000

Get rid of that Google box

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Sometimes it’s not their fault

edith — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:30:09 +0000

OMG, Google Notebook…

edith — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:09:42 +0000

OMG, Google Notebook has a new plugin that’s compatible with Firefox 3… and it actually WORKS!! So I can use this now? I don’t believe it. #

Blueprint: A CSS Framework

edith — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:49:57 +0000

My Clematis is in bloom

edith — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:59:23 +0000

Earworm: Mama Cass singing “Make Your Own Kind of Music”. Infected the other night watching “Lost”. #
Hey, I’m on BandToBand! I thought solo artists didn’t qualify, but I guess it’s due to the Boxhead connection. http://tinyurl.com/3q74sk #
Should I use Google Analytics or Woopra? I mean, wouldn’t it slow down pageloading too much if you used both? Which I am? #
Mmm. If I could drink Big Red all day long, I probably would. (I’m from Texas!) http://www.bigredltd.com/ #
I thought that big blue one was an orchid but it’s a Clematis. :-)

Google Health Launches

edith — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:59:00 +0000

From Google Operating System:

After a year and a half since the first announcement, the much-anticipated Google Health has been released at Google Factory Tour of Search. “Patients need to be able to better coordinate and manage their own health information. …

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Google Doctype

edith — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:00:00 +0000

An Encyclopedia for Web Developers

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Google Docs keyboard shortcuts

edith — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:39:59 +0000

FriendFeed + GReader

edith — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:29:33 +0000

FriendFeed in conjunction with Google Reader is my new way to keep up. Y’all are all my new imaginary friends. http://friendfeed.com/edith #

Share and Annotate Web Pages in Google Reader

edith — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:59:26 +0000

Hooray! I can now post snarky remarks to my Google Reader shared items.

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Styles in Google Docs

edith — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:38:51 +0000

Leave Dylan alone!

edith — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:59:44 +0000

In Firefox 3.0b5, if I drop a .webloc URL into a blank window it takes me to some random place in my recent history. WTH #
Wil & I saw “No Direction Home” over the past 2 nights. I’d seen it and it made me mad all over again at the press & vicious so-called fans. #
Getting an occasional white page in Gmail when chat is on. Is it b/c people are trying to IM me from the website badge? They never do, so… #

Twitter freakout

edith — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:59:03 +0000

Get the link to your Google Talk chatback (via Harper)
Got a membership to LibraryThing. Getting as much as I can onto the Kindle (& selling the paper versions) so I need something to keep track. #
はろ #
Twitter is allowing me to randomly log in as random people whenever I hit “Sign Out” TWITTER FREAKOUT!!! FIX ME!! #
Twitter needs to fix this random session bug! I’m not this person.. if you need help to fix it contact me at http://rosshill.com.au #
JEEZ Twitter!! WTH?! (from the real edith) #