http://blog.maniacd.net The "D" stand for Developer, Dude... Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:17:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been waiting to try Gmail's new features since hearing about them and as of this morning I can as my Gmail account has now been upgraded. Some of my initial impressions of the new version are The Improved Contacts manager looks good. I now have an excuse to ... http://blog.maniacd.net/2007/11/06/my-gmail-account-has-been-upgraded/ In my last post I talked about using Google Reader to create a Shared Item feed or Link Blog but what if you wanted to take it a step further and split the posts you find interesting into different categories (Eg. Tech News, Geek stuff, .NET, SQL, etc.) and that ... http://blog.maniacd.net/2007/06/17/using-google-reader-to-create-multiple-shared-feeds/ Google Reader now has the ability to be able to read the last 2000 recent items offline with the release of the Google Gears Plug-in. Now if only I owned a laptop I could use this to read my feeds to and from work. Technorati tags: Google Reader, Google ... http://blog.maniacd.net/2007/05/31/google-reader-google-gears-offline-reading/ I saw this on Somewhat Frank and just had to share! It's a fantastic representation what web 2.0 is all about! Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us The creator of the video was Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Technorati tags: Video, Web2.0 http://blog.maniacd.net/2007/02/05/web-20-the-machine-is-using-us/ I was reading Mitch Denny's blog about how he keeps a track of his feeds which got me thinking on how I am keep a track of the information posted from the feeds (105 and counting) that I'm currently subscribed to. For me it comes down to some of the features ... http://blog.maniacd.net/2006/12/10/how-do-you-track-your-feeds/