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The OS Quest Trail Log #8

September 23, 2007 – 4:40 am

Another short update for the log.
I spent some time trying to install Boot Camp on my iMac. It couldn’t resize the existing partition to make room for boot camp. I could image to another drive, then erase and image back. But I decided to try out iDefrag and explore the whole OS X doesn’t need [...]

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Google Apps for My Domain - Part 1

August 21, 2007 – 8:29 pm

I’ve completed my move to Google Apps and now all my mail goes into my inbox there, one way or the the other. In Part 1 I’ll cover the domain setup and IMAP mail migration using the migration tool, while in part 2 I’ll cover the features that are available to all GMail users.
My reasons [...]

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Google Video Sales To Cease

August 11, 2007 – 5:17 pm

Google will be exiting the video sales business. Those few people who purchase videos from Google Video can’t watch them after August 15th due to the joys of DRM. As compensation Google is giving people two bucks to spend via Google checkout. On the positive side, it’s unlikely many people bought videos since the site [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #1

August 8, 2007 – 10:03 pm

It’d time to introduce the “Trail” to the OS Quest blog. It seems like the type of thing that should be done on a weekend, or maybe just once a month, or maybe whenever I can fill a post. (I’ve really thought this through) I’ll recap the things I’ve been working on and the things [...]

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Google Updates Docs and Spreadsheets and Toolbar

June 27, 2007 – 9:24 pm

Google updated Docs and Spreadsheets today. They did away with tagging and implemented folders instead. They’ve also added new keyboard shortcuts for those of us who like those things instead of a mouse. Rounding out the latest features are right to left text support and “easier invitations”.
The change was implemented without warning (at least none [...]

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Google Desktop For Mac Released

April 4, 2007 – 9:36 pm

Google released Google Desktop for the Mac this past Tuesday and it piqued my interest. The first question is why would I want Google desktop when I have Spotlight? The immediate answers to that are:

easily repeat a search on the Internet after doing a desktop search
include a GMail account in the index (but only one [...]

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