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The US Digital Television conversion is February 2009. You have a little over a year to help your parents figure this out. Go to this website for help. You can also apply for a $40 coupon for a converter box should you need it.
People seem to think that companies will just raise the price [...]

It’s here. Finally. Gmail now supports IMAP. Internet Message Access Protocol. IMAP is cool because as you work with your email, moving it to folders, reading it, deleting it, etc. your actions are synced with the mail server. This way if you access the mail again from a different computer you will have everything in [...]

This past February I posted a launcher for Windows Live Writer so that you can take it with your between computers and retain all your settings. Today I am releasing version 2.0 of the Launcher. Much has changed with Windows Live Writer and I have learned some new techniques for making it portable. This is [...]

Merlin Mann of 43 Folders fame has a new video up of the talk he gave at Google the other day. In this one he discusses his Inbox Zero concept of email management.

Technorati tags: video, seminar, email, organization, how-to

IBM has a new article/tutorial on their DeveloperWorks site covering Yahoo! Pipes.
Explore the steps and benefits of using a content feed filtering utility like Yahoo Pipes to better capture, merge, and alter specific data from available streams. This tutorial outlines some techniques to approach feed transformations, and includes three demonstrations featuring key areas of the [...]

Yesterday I mentioned Google released its Gears tool for taking web apps off line. Today Lifehacker posted a how-to for taking Google Reader off-line. I may have to give this a try. I went back to Greatnews a couple months ago because I liked the portability and off line access via my USB thumb drive.
Lifehacker: Access [...]

If you’re a blogger you’ll want to keep track of who is linking to you. One way is to go to Google’s Blogsearch and enter link:yourblogurl to find out who is linking.
Another method is to use my new Yahoo! Pipe. Simply enter your URL (without the HTTP part), click Run Pipe then click Subscribe to subscribe to the [...]

I’m into podcasts both audio and video. Except for live things like baseball games I rarely even listen to the radio in my car any more.
One of the things that I don’t like is that most podcasters encode their video for the iPod. I don’t blame them. The iPod is the market leader and bandwidth [...]

Do you do a lot of instant messaging? I have started to do more now that Google Talk is built into Gmail. The beauty of that is that I don’t have to install a client and it is available anywhere I have a browser. If I want one of the other services then I need [...]