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I have been trying to find an efficient way to export my calendar from Entourage so that people can view where I am (most of the time).  I think I have now found the solution Spanning Sync (http://www.spanningsync.com/).  This application will synchronise iCal (which I automatically sync with Entourage) with Google Calendar, I have then got a link on my blog to my Google calendar.  At the moment it all appears to be working well, has anyone else got any neat solutions for exporting a calendar from Entourage?

Search the Earth for giant toys.

Hello boys and girls. Ready to find some toys? Santa has hidden a treasure trove of presents somewhere in Google Earth (actually, it was a few of his elves, but you get the idea) . Every day from December 12th until Christmas Eve, a clue will appear outside Santa’s North Pole workshop which, if you can solve it, will lead you to a toy hidden in a Google Earth satellite image. And every day, the location of the previous day’s toy will be revealed.

Visit http://earth.google.com/santa/ to start your hunt.

There’s nothing quite like jumping on the bandwagon - if you don’t quite get the point of this post, then check out this post by Tom Hoffman.
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Taken from Google Earths Sightseer newsletter (sign up here):

Picasa is free software from Google for finding, organizing, editing and sharing photos on your PC. Now, starting with version 2.5, Picasa allows you to use Google Earth to quickly locate (or geotag) the place your photos were taken. You can then create a map in Google Earth to share your photos with your friends. The process is really simple. Once you have your photos in Picasa, simply select a group of photos you want to locate. Then choose the “Tools -> Geotag with Google Earth” option. Google Earth will open and a small window with thumbnails of your photos appears. Find the location where the photo was taken in Google Earth using search, or by moving to it with your mouse. Zoom in as close as you need to identify the location. Finally, select the”Geotag” button. You can also select a group of photos taken at the same location and choose the “Geotag All” option. The location information is stored in a standardized fashion in the photo file itself.

You can then use Picasa to generate a Google Earth file with snapshots of your photo as a map by choosing “Tools->Geotag->Export to Google Earth”. If you choose “Tools->Geotag->View in Google Earth” and your geotagged photos will automatically appear when you look at their respective locations.

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Following the two comments on my posting about web2.0 technologies I thought it would be worth explaining why I included Technorati.

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At my last Secondary National Strategy ICT Network Meeting Andy Trif took minutes in Word throughout the day, the following day he emailed them over to me.  After a couple of minor edits I asked Andy’s permission to share them with the other delegates at the meeting, he gave his permission but rather than just emailing them I decided to upload the file to Google Docs and allow the rest of the delegates to edit if necessary.  The published minutes can be found here.

This got me thinking, prior to my next meeting with the Shropshire ICT subject leaders I set up the agenda in a Google Doc and planned to use this to take the minutes directly during the meeting.  The venue I use for training has wireless access and I was able to invite all the delegates to be collaborators before the meeting.  During the meeting 3 delegates editing the document live and the final published version can now be found here.

I plan to continue using Google Docs for all future minute/note taking at CPD events I offer from our training venue.

Fed up with using Google all the time for your websearches, well why not try out Ms Dewey for a new approach to searching.

When I want to perform a basic calculation I tend to spark up Excel and type it into one of the cells, this might become a thing of the past thanks to a post on Lifehacker.

You can use Firefox 2’s suggest-as-you type Google search box as an instant calculator. Simply type your mathematical formula into the search box and you’ll get your answer even before you hit the equals sign.

When Google released their RSS aggregator ‘Google Reader‘ a while back I signed up, as I tend to do with most new stuff from Google.  I wasn’t overly impressed so I stuck with using Bloglines.

Last night I had an email that explained that Google Reader had been updated.  I loaded it and was immediately impressed by the look and feel, a huge improvement.  I have now uploaded my subscriptions to  give it a full trial.

There are a host of attractive features:

• Share - you can mark posts so that you can share them on your public page, a nice way of filtering through your subscriptions
• Starred - if you star your items then they are flagged so you can easily access those stories you want to return to later
• Email - email posts to friends etc
• Tags - you can tag all your posts, if you have the time, and then search through your posts via their tags, works in a more advanced way than starring
• List View & Extended View - the ability to quickly switch between the two viewing methods.

Would you like to work for Google?….. when you can now, unfortunately they won’t pay you much, well actually the wont pay you at all.

Google are after your help to try and improve the quality of Google Image Search results.

How does it work?

You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.For example, this image can be described by the labels: bird, sky, soaring, or frigate bird.

Why not give it a go, I have tried about 4 times now and have been unable to match any labels