Alex Ibrado

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Real Gmail push notifications and sync for iOS

I don't know how I missed it, but you can get real push notifications and proper Contacts/Calendar sync with Gmail/Google Apps on your iOS device (iPhone/iPod touch/iPad) -- just use a Microsoft Exchange profile when you setup your account. Instructions here.

After you do that, your Mail icon badge (the number in the little red circle) will update as soon as new mail comes into any of your configured mail accounts -- you don't need a specialized notifier app just for this. Also, your Contacts and Calendar will be perfectly synchonized with your Google accounts.

n.b. Yahoo! mail already has push built-in.

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Facebook Acquires Simple File-sharing Service Drop.io

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Another Facebook thorn in Google's side.

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Google Search Preview

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Have you noticed the new search result previews in Google? Just click on any search result area or magnifying glass to turn it on. Pretty cool!

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Google Gadget + OpenSocket = Facebook app

I converted my scifAI Google Gadget to a Facebook app via OpenSocket. It was a relatively painless procedure, though I did have to make allowances for the way Facebook rendered the app. Also, the code generated by OpenSocket still has some issues with the app's canvas height, so I also added the comments for a particular post just to use some of the extra space.My pet peeve is that an iframe app
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Tumblr hack: Author's Notes via Google Docs

This is a very basic HOWTO on retrieving a particular item in a Google Docs spreadsheet from your blog (not necessarily Tumblr), something that I could have used a few days ago. I use this over at my scifaiku site to show author notes for particular posts. *Create a new spreadsheetUse the first row to label the fieldsEnter some dataPublish the spreadsheetGo to More publishing optionsSelect RSS
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