http://www.geekyinfo.com A blog about geeky stuff with a bent toward information management Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:39:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is a good spot to farm in wow (world of warcraft), everyone's favorite online game. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Full article here http://www.geekyinfo.com/2008/04/18/farming-in-wow/ Apple Mac Pro users rejoice! Some graphics love is coming. Apple ships Mac Pro graphics upgrade kit: "Apple ships NVidia GeForce 8800GT (1st Generation) Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro in the US Apple has introduced a new graphics upgrade kit for Mac Pro users, the NVidia GeForce 8800GT (1st Generation) Graphics Upgrade Kit, ... http://www.geekyinfo.com/2008/04/17/apple-ships-mac-pro-graphics-upgrade-kit/ Very nice news... Palm has announced that an update to the Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system will be available for Treo 750 smartphone customers around the world later this year. The Treo 750 is available from carriers in the United States, Europe and Asia and remains a key part ... http://www.geekyinfo.com/2007/06/27/palm-announces-treo-750-windows-mobile-6-update/ Web worker daily has some nice tips on skinning popular websites. I use the gmail and google reader one and could not be happier."Sites like Gmail, Google Reader and del.icio.us are essential, functional and extensible. We live in them. But aesthetically, they don’t win raves out of the box. Thank goodness a web ... http://www.geekyinfo.com/2007/04/28/skin-gmail-google-reader-and-delicious/ "Google Spreadsheets, which brings Excel-like number crunching to your browser, has added chart capabilities. To create a chart from an existing spreadsheet, just click the Add Chart icon (which resembles a little pie chart, natch). Your chart choices include columns, bars, lines, pie, and scatter, each with a handful of sub-types ... http://www.geekyinfo.com/2007/04/20/google-spreadsheets-now-with-charts/ This has made my day! Just as I move accross to google reader to give it a spin. This skin pops up to turn it into a good looking mac app."That's why I like this theme by Hicksdesign. It will work with Firefox, Camino, Safari, Opera and Omniweb and looks great. The ... http://www.geekyinfo.com/2007/04/18/963/ Google will shortly release an update to their documents and spreadsheets app, otherwise known as google docs. It will allow presentation sharing and callaboration sharing (will be interesting to see how this is implemented)."Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long as we could, but to be honest, we've ... http://www.geekyinfo.com/2007/04/18/google-is-expecting/ ouch! They say all publicity is good publicity but this has made it to digg.. and I think I wouldn't like what is going around if I was this developer. "My RSS newsreader of choice was NewsFire. It’s a great, polished product. Despite a minor annoyance with the trial version, I ... http://www.geekyinfo.com/2007/04/17/newswire/ My google life is continuing:What with my mail now in gmail, rss feeds in google reader, my calendar in google calendar, and some documents that I want to share in google docs. I even have google notebook up and running. Things are going well.However, I am having some trouble with ... http://www.geekyinfo.com/2007/04/17/a-browser-for-my-google/ As I am switching (as part of my living with google attempt), from mail to gmail, this little trick of using mail tags and the redirect function in apple mail to get my emails into gmail. "One nice thing about Mail is the Redirect feature, which lets you forward mail to ... http://www.geekyinfo.com/2007/04/17/switching-from-mail-to-gmail/