My Google Reader shared items
Posted by Benny Chew in General Tech on June 17th, 2008
I subscribe to a considerable amount of feeds (which occasionally can get tiresome to clear, removed Digg as the volume was way too great) and I have a filtered list/feed available here which are items from feeds which I think is noteworthy.
It can be added to any RSS reader if you wish to be kept updated of the items which I share. ;)
Cross street in Google Maps
Posted by Benny Chew in General Tech, Tips & Tweaks, Web on June 16th, 2008
I decided to find out if cross streets (intersections) can be easily searched via Google Maps rather than searching for one street and just scrolling around to find the intersection with the other recently, and realised there was a keyword to do that.
For e.g., typing a very frequently used rendezvous point into Google Maps:
Swanston St at Bourke St VIC 3000
Would give you the intersection of Swanston St and Bourke St (ex-Nike Melbourne). Link to the page here.
Pretty nifty since it’s common place for shop lot locations to be listed as ‘corner X road and Y road’.
via MalekTips
Jose Mourinho on Setanta Sports
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on December 27th, 2007
If you’re versed with EPL and know of the ex-Chelsea manager, have a watch of this hilarious clip..
Agile programming
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on November 28th, 2007
Gmail 2.0
Posted by Benny Chew in General Tech, Tips & Tweaks, Web on November 11th, 2007
An updated version of Gmail was recently rolled out to most users just after IMAP access was released, and I got it pretty early on. However, I somehow got reverted back to the old version a few hours later and never actually figured out why, till now..
Apparently, after I got moved over to the new version, I actually switched my language preference in the settings from English (US) to English (UK). :| I sort of left it as it is since then and finally decided to find out the root cause today (after much cursing at how evil it was for me to be given access to the updated version for just a few hours..).
So if you still seem to be stuck in the old version, try the following (was suggested here):
- Click ‘Settings’ in your Gmail window (top right, close to ‘Sign Out’).
- In the drop down for ‘Gmail display language’, change it to ‘English (US)’.
Oh well, Gmail is still in beta..
More screenshots of the new version here.
More BitTorrent stuff
Posted by Benny Chew in BitTorrent, Tips & Tweaks on October 30th, 2007
I think the links are kinda old, but anyway..
Both links from TorrentFreak.
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