Flootlog

I don’t know why Yahoo, MSN or ASK even try anymore.  I mean do you ever think, hey, I need to find something…lets see there is Altavista, dogpile, msn, and lycros?  I remember one occassion when google failed me, I went to msn to do the search.  WOW.  I immediately felt remorse.  How could I have doubted google?  I remember thinking, I probably just typed in the search incorrectly.  If I had typed in the right keyword then google would’ve done its job perfectly.  

I can’t even give that excuse anymore.  Now it has auto-spell check on all searches.  But that is nothing. Now, when there is a fire within miles of where you live and you need some info, you don’t have to read about the San Diego fires in the 1880s.  Now you can seamlessly click one link and eliminate everything but that one bit of info you need to figure out if you need to check your email or evacuate. 

Watch the video for info on what they’ve added to their search:

In order to make this blog better, I decided to include this 5 star ratings tool.

 Its an easy way to let me know if you want more or less of a particular kind of floot.  Thanks for voting.  Here is the tool if you want it for your own blogs:

Check out this new YouTube site:

TV shows and movies, (Crackle, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz).  Best of all ALF:  

http://www.youtube.com/shows 

Grandma would’ve hated this kind of thing. Google now (as of April 09) automatically makes your searches local to your zip, so whether or not you know where you are, google does.  This is really nice when you’re travelling and have no idea what zip you’re in.

I.e. – here are the pizza places in your area: LocoPizza (usually about the 4th hit down).

Oh, and it can also track you on the go via this handy program… Google Latitude:

One of my most vivid memories of living with my sister was being appointed to taste the milk (to see if it was spoiled).  Thanks sis, but from now on, you can go to: 

If you’ve ever wondered if that food is still tasty or not, and you don’t have a brother to test it on, this site is your answer. 

Visit the StillTasty link/logo above.

Click here: To know whether or not you can eat that pizza

Here are some amazingly good steals, and best of all FREE SHIPPING!

Here is the the world’s smallest and cheapest USB drive:

http://www.dealextreme.com/

In seeking to sync contacts from gmail to my phone, I came accross this post in a forum:

“…. if we all pool together and tell Google we want the Contacts API 
released sooner rather than later.  For this to happen, if we all go 
to the following link: 
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=-star… 

and “star” the Contacts API (id 25) we will make sure this feature 
gets top priority from Google and thusly allow Spanning Sync’s team to 
work on a much awaited Address Book to Google Contacts sync. 

Imagine if all paying uers of Spanning Sync were to star this 

feature…. we would get it really fast hopefully.”  

If this post is correct, then that means my vote for certain functions in Google matters – furthermore it lets some people suggest new features.  

This, my friends, is the power I’ve been looking for.  

Here is a link to an updated “issues” list if you’re interested:

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/list

Most of these features are pretty complex as they are for people who write code (I think).  So I wonder if there is a site like this for us lay people???

Suggest a feature

I’m not one to really search for new blogposts or organize them with a blog reader.  But there are a few that I like to read from time to time.  So what do I do?  

1. In gmail account click on SETTINGS then WEBCLIPS.  
2. Remove all the clips you don’t care for
3. Add the blogs/other web stuff you want 

In order to appreciate this post, you probably have to:

A) Own a Mac

B) Own Accordance Bible Software

C) Need to learn a load of vocab in Hebrew or Greek every week

D) Attend a seminary (like Westminster Seminary in CA) where they actually force you to learn Hebrew and Greek.

First, download Flashcord from Joe Weaks: You can find FlashCord here.

I got that from this forum on Accordance Bible

Below there are links that will take you to screencasts that show you how to do these basic functions:

This first one is the most useful function (to me).  It takes a passage that you’ve defined (i.e. – Friday’s quiz on 2 Sam 7:1-17), and it gives you a list of all the words in the passage in order of how many times they appear in that passage.  Then when you export it, you can cut out some of the easier ones and just review the words you need to review:

Hope that helps, let me know if you have any questions.

If you haven’t enabled labs like “attachment reminder” or put a new background on your gmail, you’ve probably never heard of Gmail Offline.  Either that, or you got the floot from Adam.

I think my favorite thing about google and apple is that they give me what I want before I know I want it.  It is so frustrating to sit in class or somewhere without internet and be unable to access information online.  I dislike downloading through outlook – that is sooo old school, and besides what else am I supposed to do when someone interrupts class lecture to inquire about how a particular point applies to (insert random hard-to-pronounce philosopher’s name here).

Best thing is, it is just a minor add-on to gmail’s already great lab features.  

Check it out:

Gmail Offline