Category Archives: Cloud Services

Posts about stuff in the cloud.

Google Docs Upload Broken in Opera 11.51

9/10/2011 – 1:21 pm

It’s been broken for at least a month, apparently. As long as it lasts, there is apparently a workaround: https://docs.google.com/?action=updoc Update, 17 June 2012. It works in Opera 12, thankfully!

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Google Calendar Agenda Native PDF Generation

9/5/2011 – 8:27 pm

I am pleased to see Google Calendar now natively generates a PDF when printing out an agenda. In the past, the print version of an agenda was a clean HTML page. Now it has more colors and clean page breaks. Hooray!

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Reorganizing Picasa Albums without blowing up Picasa Web

8/23/2011 – 10:27 pm

In Picasa, each album is a virtual collection of photos, along with a bag of virtually modeled edits not actually applied to the original photos. As each album can have photos from anywhere assigned to it, it’s possible for a given album to be a virtual home to files from all over a hard drive. [...]

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Ebay is dead to me

8/23/2011 – 6:05 pm

I realize this has been going on for a while, but I hadn’t bothered to attempt to list anything since sometime in 2006, back when Ebay first changed its policy to fuck individual sellers. So unsurprisingly, today I find this shit: Sellers need to say in their listing specifically which payment methods they accept and [...]

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Picasa Web Albums are not Picasa Albums

8/23/2011 – 3:27 pm

Just in case anyone tries to be too cute by half: Uploading photos from an Android phone for convenience while traveling and then assuming later it’s possible to “Import from Picasa Web Albums…” from within the Picasa application does not work quite like you expect. The photos will download, but not into a Picasa Album. [...]

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Hooray for Picasa

8/10/2011 – 9:34 pm

Finally decided to aggregate my various photos into a single place. Having moved to Gmail, it’s hard not to exploit other Google properties as well. Picasa Web integrates pretty well with Picasa, even ancient version 3.0, the last version officially available for Linux. (It’s actually just Picasa for Windows and a build of Wine.) It’s [...]

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Finally moved to Gmail

7/19/2011 – 7:53 pm

Eventually, managing one’s own mail server ceases to entertain. A plethora of technologies need be managed to produce a useful mail server: Proper DNS records, relay configurations, encryption and authentication, Bayesian filters, DNS blacklists, storage, filesystem permissions, and so on. Further, that only gets one basic email. Distributed contact lists and easy, centralized filtering is [...]

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