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iPhone + Google Calendar + Google Sync = Awesomeness

nerdOne — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:37:00 +0000

Google Sync and Mobile Devices

Two tools that I love enormously are Google Calendar and my iPhone. Google Calendar is incredibly powerful. It allows you to have multiple calendars with any mix of private and public/shared calendars you like. It has a powerful quick ad option for adding events with plain English, amazingly configurable repeating events and reminders, and the feature list goes on and on.

When Google launched Google Sync earlier this year the loop from my Google Calendar to my iPhone and back was completed. Sync allows you to view and edit events on either your iPhone built in calendar or on Google Calendar on the web and see the changes propagated almost immediately.

Google sync used to only allow 5 of your Google Calendars to sync to your mobile device but I noticed yesterday that they now allow up to 25 calendars to sync. If you are a Google Calendar power user this is music to your ears.

I highly recommend this combination of tools. If you haven’t tried it yet you are missing out on some serious awesomeness.

Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sync

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Better Paste Takes the Annoyance out of Pasting Formatted Text – Clipboard – Lifehacker

nerdOne — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:15:17 +0000

AutoHotkey

Copying text from a web site and then pasting it somewhere else usually results in the formatting being copied over as well, which in 99% of cases in not what I want. I’m definitely not alone on that either.

Someone has created this wonderful script for the extremely useful windows tool ”Autohotkey‘ that will remove all formatting from a normal control-v paste. For those rare occaisions when you DO want the formatting, simply control-shift-v and there it is.

So handy!

I have yet to write a post about Autohotkey itself but it is definitely one of the more useful Windows tools in my arsenal. You can check it out here: Autohotkey

Check out more about the script at Lifehacker:

Paste Takes the Annoyance out of Pasting Formatted Text – Clipboard – Lifehacker.

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HighlightCam: Easy Video Surveillance

nerdOne — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:22:04 +0000

HighlightCam

HighlightCam.com is a very good site if you are interested in basic video surveillance. You can easily set up a simple security system using your existing webcam. The key features include

- motion detection

- email alerts

- free and paid levels of service

- reduces hours of video into seconds containing only the important bits

- view videos from any internet connected computer

The free version of the service is quite worthwhile. The main advantages to upgrading to the paid version, currently $8.99 /month, is that it gets you video storage for 2 weeks (up from 24 hours) and the ability to download recordings. Other than that you also get no ads (they are unobtrusive anyway) and higher resolution video.

HighlightCam is definitely worth checking out. I use it to monitor my home when I’m out of town.

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