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My first Greasemonkey script is for people who travel. I find it annoying that google will re-direct me to the local country’s page, even if I don’t speak the language. This is a handy, incredibly feature light, script that redirects you to the google.ie site. It doesn’t redirect from .com because some tools depend on that tld.

I hope it’s useful!
You can find it at the userscripts.org site here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47340

To change it to redirect to another country, just edit the @exclude from http://*.google.ie/* to replace .ie with your tld of choice, and then change
'.google.ie' in the parentheses with your desired domain.

Mac Success – how to sync ical with google calendar for free

So, I have found a few answers over the last few days to some of my queries. I found out, by coming in early to the office one morning, that the F5/F6 keys on the MBP are responsible for setting the Keyboard Backlight Brightness. Apparently you can only adjust that when the backlight is on, which is confusing.

A more important discovery that I have made is that there is a free way to sync ical with google calendar bi-directionally. This is really important to me because I have a load of different calendars which I use for work and I really need to be able to add and track events on different calendars.

The google web client is nice, but iCal integrates really well with the rest of the OS and feels right for usability. There are commercial clients such as Spanning Sync and Busy Sync, but as I am a cheap bas believer in freedom, I prefer not to pay for software.

It turns out that there is an application for both OSX and Windows called ‘Calgoo’ that will do the syncing for you. Their website is at calgoo.com.

One really nice feature is that it will let you create iCal calendars as you set up connectors.

Microsoft!

The ‘net is ablaze after the announcement that MSFT is to consume YHOO at a 61% premium on a cash & share unfinanced basis. This will generate considerable interest for the continued war on the GOOG.

In principle, this seems like a sensible aggregation strategy for Microsoft. Yahoo are bleeding right now, they shed jobs and there is a general sense that the company was wracked by doubt. The question is whether Redmond can really be their knight?
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