Google – Bill Glick .:. tech . art . God . life http://blog.billglick.com thoughts on technology, arts, God, and life Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:28:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 What’s the Buzz? /2010/02/11/whats-the-buzz/ /2010/02/11/whats-the-buzz/#respond Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:28:47 +0000 /?p=213 Have you tried the new Google Buzz tool built into Gmail?  It’s like twitter.

This blog post is a test to see if Buzz will automagically pull in this post from my blog.

What are your thoughts on Google Buzz?

]]> /2010/02/11/whats-the-buzz/feed/ 0 Latest iPhone App Picks /2009/12/04/latest-iphone-app-picks/ /2009/12/04/latest-iphone-app-picks/#respond Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:30:20 +0000 /?p=198 Continue reading Latest iPhone App Picks]]> Today we finally became a 2 iPhone family. As I was gathering up my suggestions of iPhone apps to share with my wife, I decided I’d go ahead and share them with everyone. Most of these apps are free. I’ve attempted to group them into types of apps as best as I can.

Location Aware Apps:

  • AroundMe – find things near you
  • Google – localized search, voice enabled, access to all Google apps
  • Gowalla – track and share where you are
  • iWant – find things near you
  • Showtimes – view local movie show times, read reviews, view trailers
  • Urbanspoon – get random local restaurant recommendations
  • CoPilot Live – relatively inexpensive GPS navigation

Miscellaneous:

  • Bible – best free Bible app with most versions – developed by LifeChurch.tv
  • WordPress – manage your WordPress blog
  • Photoshop Mobile – Photoshop for simple editing of your iPhone photos
  • Remote – control iTunes on your computer from your phone
  • ESPN ScoreCenter – view scores and game updates
  • Walgreens – we use this to manage our prescription orders

Social Networking

  • Tweetie – best Twitter app available
  • Facebook – connect with Facebook
  • AIM – instant messaging on the go
  • Yahoo Messenger – instant messaging on the go
  • Pandora Radio – streaming music to your taste – check out Rockin’ Holidays channel

Financial

  • Quicken – financial account overview via free Quicken Online
  • PayPal – pay people securely
  • USAA – best online bank – deposit checks with your camera – transfer money live

Games

  • Paper Toss – waste more time than imaginable
  • Sol Free – best free solitaire games
  • iBowl – like a Wii on your phone

Remote Connectivity

  • TouchTerm – ssh client for linux sysadmins
  • VNC – remote vnc viewer for screen sharing
  • RDP – remote desktop for Windows

My office mate, Matt, currenly has 254 apps installed on his iPhone.  That’s more than the iPhone is actually capable of displaying on it’s home pages.  Anyway, I also asked him for his recommendations of best apps.

Matt’s Picks:

What are your favorite iPhone apps that you use at least once a week?

]]> /2009/12/04/latest-iphone-app-picks/feed/ 0 Sharing Things I Like /2008/01/17/sharing-things-i-like/ /2008/01/17/sharing-things-i-like/#respond Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:22:57 +0000 /2008/01/17/sharing-things-i-like/ Continue reading Sharing Things I Like]]> I read almost all of my news and blog content via Google Reader.  And now with a newer feature in Google Reader, I’ve started sharing news that I think others might like.  So, rather than pasting content from other blogs or news sites, I simply add them to my shared news feed.

If you share any similar interests with me, you might find that subscribing to my shared news feed is useful:

Let me know if you find this useful.

]]> /2008/01/17/sharing-things-i-like/feed/ 0 Yahoo Pipes /2007/12/19/yahoo-pipes/ /2007/12/19/yahoo-pipes/#respond Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:19:26 +0000 /2007/12/19/yahoo-pipes/ Continue reading Yahoo Pipes]]> OK, I mentioned Yahoo Pipes back a few months ago, but never had really created anything with it till yesterday. I was trying to figure out how to sort, combine, and limit the number of items in some existing RSS feeds I manage. Enter Yahoo Pipes.

Pipes lets you do some powerful things with RSS feeds and other web content.

Check out my first three pipes:

This seems very powerful. I want to see about creating some other custom feeds from various sources.

]]> /2007/12/19/yahoo-pipes/feed/ 0 Who is Ron Paul? /2007/12/09/who-is-ron-paul/ /2007/12/09/who-is-ron-paul/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:25:58 +0000 /2007/12/09/who-is-ron-paul/ Continue reading Who is Ron Paul?]]> I keep hearing rumblings about this presidential candidate named Ron Paul. I finally looked him up and he definitely grabs my attention. At first I wasn’t totally comfortable him being antiwar, but I’m starting to warm up to that idea. He appears to not exactly be ‘antiwar’, but more about the US not needing to act an international police force. I resonate with that, though I also value the importance of our military and international law.

I also like the idea that he appears to really value integrity and authenticity. One of his campaign slogans is “Google Ron Paul”, which implies to me that he isn’t afraid of you finding out something bad about him. I like that.

What do you think of Ron Paul? Does he have a chance of becoming president?

]]> /2007/12/09/who-is-ron-paul/feed/ 1 Blogger Web Stats Reporting /2007/11/01/blogger-web-stats-reporting/ /2007/11/01/blogger-web-stats-reporting/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:23:00 +0000 /?p=14 So… Google owns Blogger, right? That’s the same Google that also operates Google Analytics, the awesomely incredible web statistics reporting tool.

So, why can’t Blogger tell me any web statistics about who, if anyone, reads my blog? Hmmmm…

]]> /2007/11/01/blogger-web-stats-reporting/feed/ 1 Addicted to Google Reader /2007/06/25/addicted-to-google-reader/ /2007/06/25/addicted-to-google-reader/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:40:00 +0000 /?p=10 Continue reading Addicted to Google Reader]]> I started using Google Reader about 1 month ago to be a central spot for everything I read online. As a firm believer in RSS feeds for a couple of years, I’d explored Google Reader back when it first was introduced, but didn’t really find it all the useful or powerful.

But now that’s different. Google Reader has matured into a powerful RSS reader, while RSS and XML feeds have become much more prolific. After a bit more exploring this weekend, I’m finding that I don’t need to leave Google Reader to catch up on any of my online reading.

A Few RSS Reader Tips
So, besides subscribing to the normal blog and news feeds that most people are aware of, here are some additional things I’m doing with RSS feeds in Google Reader.

YouTube Videos – http://www.youtube.com/rssls

CraigsList

Weather – http://www.rssweather.com/

Bible Reading

Google News

Yahoo Pipes – http://pipes.yahoo.com/
I’m not using Pipes yet, but the idea of easily programming applications and feeds via this interface intrigues me. I want to keep my eye on this tool.

Anyone else have any RSS feed tips that help them with managing your daily flow of information?

]]> /2007/06/25/addicted-to-google-reader/feed/ 1 Free Use Image Searches /2007/06/18/free-use-image-searches/ /2007/06/18/free-use-image-searches/#respond Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:59:00 +0000 /?p=7 Continue reading Free Use Image Searches]]> I’ve been trying to figure out a way to make use of Google to search for images from free image websites for a while. Google Coop has shown some potential, but it doesn’t really support image searches in it’s current state.

But today, I discovered a website devoted to free use image searches:
http://yotophoto.com/

This looks really simple to use and found a lot of useful images that my recent home-grown searches hadn’t found.

For those interested, here are a couple of Google Coop searches that I’ve been testing, for image and media searching:

And an earlier attempt to hack Google Image Search:

But, for now, yotophoto.com seems like a much better tool.

Anyone else know of similar tools for searching for media useful in the church?

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