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Copy text from a protected Google doc

13 October, 2024 - 186 words
In Google Docs you can "protect" a doc so that it can't be printed, shared or have text copied. For everyone except the author this is quite annoying, and so this is one way you can copy text out of a protected document if you are sent one. These instructions are for a desktop version of Chrome. Firefox will also work, but I haven't tried any of this on mobile. ...

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Hosting your own calendar and contacts directory

26 March, 2013 - 78 words
Apparently there is a thing called ownCloud which lets you run, amongst other things, a calendar server and a contact directory, both of which will sync with your android phone and here is a writeup of doing just that. I’ve not tried it yet, but any option to prise the dat...

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Google Currents

10 December, 2011 - 133 words
At first blush I didn’t know what to make of Google’s new iOS and Android app, Currents, other than it is an almost infinitely better way to consume The Guardian than their own Android app. After a few hours I’ve got a much better idea, and broadly, I’m not impressed. No URLs, No view-source and half the content I’ve read seems to be ...

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Forgotten predictions

03 July, 2011 - 17 words
September 2008: I look forward to the first Linux build which runs Chrome as its window manager.

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Google Chrome

03 September, 2008 - 73 words
(because one more whiny blogger’s opinion can’t hurt) nice, fast. I see ad people a single google doc in an application window feels nicer than the Prism alternative masses of the standard Firefox keyboard shortcuts work find-as-you-type requires CTRL+F find-as-you-type doesn’t select links

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Google-be-gone

18 November, 2007 - 220 words
So, my Google account is still disabled a week later and I still haven’t had a response to the two mails I’ve sent the accounts team. My blog was powered by Blogger. I’ve switched to WordPress and hope to import all of my old blog sometime this week (I’ll have to screen-scrape my own blog archives). In related news I was using Gmail to power my email, but was using my own domain to forwa...

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Google lockout

11 November, 2007 - 115 words
Well, I had been about to post about using Android, the new Google thing for mobile devices, but they seem to have disabled my main Google Account meaning that I can’t use anything I was logged out of, including Gmail and Blogger, which means I’m writing this by hand and that comments are, er, disabled. Yeah, disabled. I ca...

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Google Reader wins for me

06 September, 2007 - 74 words
Let’s see, they convert everything to Atom and have just added the only two features I was missing: search and “hide feed list” (I do a lot of feed reading on a tablet). It even goes offline, has a mobile version and some great ke...

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