Adventures with iGoogle

I’ve been experimenting with iGoogle a bit more lately as the default home or landing page for my browsers. I have a handful of interesting gadgets (more on those in a future post) and it generally works well for me. It has also been a refreshing change from Netvibes.

There’s one spot that Netvibes definitely

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Where did the Gmail Gadget for Google Desktop Go?

Update: As of 4/17/2009 the Gadget is back!

The Gmail gadget for Google Desktop was announced last December. I’ve found it very useful and it has become the primary reason I run Google Desktop on some of my machines.

Alas, it has gone missing! I was setting up a machine yesterday and went looking for the

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Google Desktop Becomes Useful (to me)

I’ve found, in the past month, that Google Desktop has actually become very useful to have around. While I’ve tried it in the past, it just never caught on but with the addition of some recent gadgets it has become something I use every day on my work machine.

What are these new gadgets? All are

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Google Docs Spreadsheet Facelift and Gadgets

As promised in a September blog post, earlier this month we got a nice facelift for Google Docs spreadsheet. While looks aren’t everything, the facelift certainly is a good thing in spreadsheet’s case. It just “feels” more like a real app now, you know?

(and don’t get me wrong – I’ve been using the spreadsheet tool

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Windows 2003 Remote Desktop to Console

Here’s a tip about something I “re-learn” every few months. Perhaps writing it down will help me remember?

If your job has you working with Windows Servers, you no doubt are well familiar with the Remote Desktop Protocol. Windows users have Remote Desktop Connection (RDC), linux users can use tsclient/rdesktop and I’m sure there

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