Thomas Upton

Monthly Archives: August 2005

Google Talk

August 24, 2005 at 09.38

Yesterday, Slashdot had two posts concerning the release of an instant message client from Google. This morning, Google has officially announced the release of Google Talk. I connected to the Google Talk service last night via Adium and one of the sites that Slashdot linked to. The fact that Adium so seamlessly integrates accounts is … (Continue reading →)

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New Site

August 14, 2005 at 23.26

I have moved my blog to a new site. I’m not sure how long Blogger keeps URLs that are no longer published to, but http://uptonianthoughts.blogspot.com/ will remain up as long as possible. Please change your bookmarks and feed readers accordingly.

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Google News RSS

August 10, 2005 at 15.21

Google announced yesterday the immediate availability of RSS feeds for their news page. You can subscribe to any section of news that is available at http://news.google.com. I am still wondering why they did not make sure the feeds show up in Firefox via the Live Bookmark icon, but I use Sage anyway.

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Mighty Mouse

August 2, 2005 at 09.51

This is awesome. Apple, please make a Bluetooth version.

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Copy Protected Albums On Amazon

August 1, 2005 at 16.27

This may be old news, but Amazon seems to indicate which albums it sells are copy protected. I haven’t looked to see if any other albums are flagged like this, but it seems that “Copy Protected CD” is one of the formats that is listed on Amazon’s Buying Guide. When was this implemented, and do … (Continue reading →)

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