The Google Streetview Car (Streetcar?) spotted in Belfast (Queen’s Road, Titanic Quarter) yesterday morning whilst I sat in my car pondering on the future. A bloke on my Twitter watch list described seeing a similar car in Sheffield just an hour or so previously, or I wouldn’t have even realised it was the Google car (assuming he’s correct of course).
OK, the video’s not up to much, but I had been trying to take a photo......
The University of Ulster seems to have caught onto the Google Apps train. I was looking up the address of my Placement Supervisor and it seems staff now are able to update a personal Google Pages site of their own. Hopefully it means they will replace the awful Novell NetMail system which is just a pain to use.
I use Google Apps here on kginter.net, and it works great, really takes the hassle out of setting up email accounts. The Google Mail app which is basically Gmail with an @kginter.net and is really the best bit. If you already own a domain then you can get Google Apps for free, or for a small fee Google will throw in a domain too. Along with Google Mail, Apps also includes Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and Start......
Finally I can have events from my Outlook calendar in work sync with my Thunderbird calendar (enabled using the Lightning plugin) automatically. It’s wonderful… or at least it nearly is.
How It Works
I read some time back of a plugin that allows you to sync your Thunderbird/Lightning calendar (or Sunbird if you prefer to use Mozilla’s calendar in a standalone application) with your Google calendar, which I’m sure is useful for some people, but not me. I’ve never used a Google calendar really. However that memory proved useful when I heard that a Google have released a utility to allow you to sync your Google calendar with your Outlook calendar. I’m sure you can see where I’m going with this…......
Searching for 11 plus results using Google, after you check out this site and the Beeb I've had 100's of readers today reading this...Outstanding results from Northern Irish bloggers! Never mind the 11 plus results, the results that really matter are in.They're for the 'Take 5' meme test.Alan in Belfast 10 out of 10 for realising that 'Lisnagonuage is a misspelt Lisnagunogue'.I didn’t quite catch that… 10 out of 10 for his 'Mills And Boon' blog post. I have never read any 'Mills and Boon' but I reckon if I had, they'd be something like that.Banana 99 aka The Bells Have Made Me Deaf 10 out of 10for as well as providing the correct spelling of Lisnagonuage or Lisnagunogue, which one was it again. She also posted a map so we could find...