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Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity
tecosystems – Google Wave: Tsunami or Microwave? The Q&A – excellent write-up
Thinking about innovation and business models
YouTube – John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner (thanks Greg)
Attention All Plugin Authors
Selling a 16GB iPhone 2G – looks like an interesting option.
Free Google Voice calls with T-Mobile myFaves – cool lifehacking tip from Devin.
All devices belong to Newton – Corey and I should do a similar photo.
Palm Saturday
Palm Pre Notes

It is absolutely mind-blowing that Palm pulled this off as well as they did
Introducing Google Quick Search Box – anyone tried this LaunchBar/Quicksilver competitor?
Working on It – I should write a similar post about Tasks Pro™.
ÃœberTwitter Beta 3 Build 0.78 Now Avaialble – giving this a try.

Posted June 21st, 2009 @ 9:40 PM

9 Replies

Chris adds this Comment:

@”Working on It – I should write a similar post about Tasks Pro™…”

Yes. Yes, you should.

June 22nd, 2009 at 5:20 am
Andrew adds this Comment:

Google Quick Search Box has been great – good replacement for Quicksilver as a search/launch bar. Less crashing, fewer resource utilization, waiting on plugins and extensibility.

June 22nd, 2009 at 5:23 am
Matt W adds this Comment:

I’ve been using Google Quick Search Box since it came out. I pretty much only use it as an app launcher though and as a quick launch to a google search. It works well.

I’ve played around some with the twitter plugin for it and it works well, but I always have Tweetie open, so don’t have much use for that. I think as more plugins become available it will be better.

I’m also a registered user of LaunchBar. I wouldn’t say it’s as full featured, but depending on what you’re using this type of app for, Google’s QSB could be a good, free, replacement.

June 22nd, 2009 at 5:43 am
Corey Gilmore adds this Comment:

Re: All devices belong to Newton

If you’ve got the Newton I’ve got the iPhone 2G. And 3G. And a BlackBerry Pearl, Storm, 8900, 8330 and 8220. And shortly a 9630.

Oh, and shame. Lots of shame and embarrassment.

June 22nd, 2009 at 7:29 am
Alex adds this Comment:

I’ve still got the Newton 2000 – should charge it up and see how she runs.

June 22nd, 2009 at 9:18 am
Devin Reams adds this Comment:

Google Quick Search Box isn’t that great. Very explicit, hard to navigate. Perhaps I’m just conditioned to the flexibility of LaunchBar but I couldn’t even last a half-day with Google’s bar.

June 22nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:

I agree with Chris … I want to know what you’re doing with Tasks.

June 22nd, 2009 at 6:09 pm
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June 22nd, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Tom Markiewicz adds this Comment:

After a couple days of testing I found the Google Quick Search Box to be more functional but much slower. I switched back to QS until they can improve the speed.

June 24th, 2009 at 6:34 am

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