Archive for the ‘Web Applications’ Category
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
I tweet. (Apparently the cute terminology is compelling/attractive to some. But I digress.)
Twitter is a microblogging social networking application where you answer the question, "What are you doing now?" in 140 characters or less. Picture a Facebook News Feed that just had status updates... and just had the people you were actually friends ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
I've put all the RSS feeds from all the people in Crusade whose blogs I know of into a shared tag on Google Reader. You can subscribe to it here, or view a webpage with them all here.
Includes: Ben, Liang, Rajiv, Ray, Ken (Arnold), Charlene, Crystal, Jeanne, John (Sullivan), Tom ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Joshua Project is a ministry that collects data on the world's unreached people groups. You should check out their website. They've published their data in many formats, including a downloadable Google Earth .kmz file. I've taken that and built a webpage using the Google Earth Plugin.
1. Use this file to ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
You can now search all of desiringGod.org from Firefox. Follow along...
1. Go to desiringGod.org.
2. See how the arrow next to the Google Search Box is blue? That means you can add a search function...
3. Click it and you'll see the option.
4. Click "Add 'DesiringGod.org Search'".
5. Don't try it out just ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Ever mean to rebuke somebody over email but accidentally send it to a listserv or a list of listservs? Ever written an email like this? (completely modified to protect the guilty):
from [redacted]
to [redacted]
cc CBS-L@cornell.edu, CCFIV-L@cornell.edu, CHIALPHA-L@cornell.edu, COAH-L@cornell.edu, CRUSADE-L@cornell.edu, FCA-L@cornell.edu, GCF-L@cornell.edu, NAVS-L@cornell.edu, PRAYERVINE-L@cornell.edu
subject Re: [redacted]
hey [redacted],
don't send things to all the listservs. You should only ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Stop looking at those sketchy ads on Facebook. They're not going to help you find a wife (or a husband). They are going to tempt you.
Flee from sexual immorality. - 1 Cor 6:18
How? Block them all.
0. You need Firefox. Get it here.
1. Go here and install Greasemonkey by clicking the ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Firefox 3 came out today. If you don't use Firefox, you should give it a try. Why? Apparently it's supposed to be up to 7 times faster than Internet Explorer. And if you do have Firefox 2, you should upgrade - this is supposed to be ~3 ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
So people keep telling me I should blog, and that I should blog about being in MN, so here it goes...
I get to go to Bethlehem Baptist Church and hear John Piper preach every Sunday.
My walk to church is shorter than the walk down Ho Plaza.
I get to hang out ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Google Talk Goes Green
Google Book Search Now Smells Better
Gmail Custom Time
Google Calendar Wake Up Kit
Google Docs - Create a new document, click "File", click "New airplane"
Google gDay with MATE
Google China: Human Search
And the big one...
Virgle
UPDATE:
Google Weblogs Beta
UPDATE 2:
Google Adwords FrankRank
Google Adsense for Conversations
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
For the last several months, Cornell has been involved in a "massively multiplayer, locally social" online game similar to Risk. We're playing against all the other Ivys. Each student at each school controls a few armies, and a command structure coordinates troop placement, movement, and attack.
Alas, we need your help. ...
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