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I’ve been mucking around trying to get iSync to sync my Google Calendar to and from my Sprint Centro.  Finally, I decided to skip going through iCal and just sync my phone directly to my Google Calendar using GooSync.

It works pretty well. I had to nuke a bunch of duplicate items from other calendars in iCal, but that was really my only issue.  Now Jessica can add events to my calendar and they’ll appear in my phone.  Email invitations get added to iCal, which syncs to Google, then to my phone.  Nifty!

I showed this feature to some friends and they loved it, so I thought I’d share it with you, too.

Firefox allows you bookmark search boxes and supply a keyword shortcut for that search. Here, I’ll show you how I bookmark the Google search box to the letter ‘g’.

First, go to the Google homepage. Right-click on the search box and select “Add a Keyword for this Search…”

Save the search with a name, which doesn’t really matter and give a keyword, which will be the shortcut that you’ll use to refer to the search from the address bar in a moment.
Personally, I made a new folder called Quick Searches to save all of these bookmarks, which you may or may not wish to do.

Go to the address bar and search for something by entering your shortcut letter and the word/words you want to look up. For instance, “g quick search” turns into a search for…

… this:

I think I’m pretty decent at identifying online scams, but I still missed one on this quiz!

http://www.siteadvisor.com/quizzes/phishing_0707/

It tests your ability to identify fake web sites and illegitimate emails. Afterwards, it has a nice little analysis showing you how they knew a site was fake.

Try it out and let me know how you did!

As someone that uses the internet daily and spends a lot of time working on and around the internet, I was very disturbed to hear about this latest internet crash:

Dell’s support options include:

• Dependable Dell technical support
• North-American-based technical support

You can have either dependable or native English speakers, so pick your poison wisely.

Thanks to Kevin for pointing this out to me.

Dear Wes Garrison,

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you?

Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July 1, 2006* — $.06 has been placed into your Go Daddy(R) account with this customer number: xxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Your in-store credit will be applied to your purchases at GoDaddy.com(R) until it’s gone or for up to 12 months, whichever comes sooner. If you have any questions, please contact a customer service representative at 480-505-8877.

(emphasis mine)

It’s hard to get excited over six cents.