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Maximum PC is convinced that 2008 is the “Year of the Linux Desktop”, taking into account the fact that people are moving away from Vista and moving towards a cheaper alternative. I imagine that people are not only moving away from Vista to Linux, but away from Windows to Mac OS X as well.

Personally, I’m still waiting for Mac OS X Leopard!

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It’s nice to read long blog posts talking about the iPhone extensively, such as this one that Walt Mossberg posts today which answers questions asked about the product, but it pains me when the iPhone won’t be available in Canada for at least a couple of years. Doh!

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Zoho just announced that they released their Zoho office suite as a Facebook Application. When I saw this, I installed it on Facebook to give it a test drive.

Immediately after installing the application, I noticed that I need to STILL have a Zoho account even though I’m already on Facebook and they should just be able to identify me from my Facebook account. TechCrunch poses a similar question.

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I’ve browsed through a few of my friends’ Facebook profiles recently, and I think they need a “Table of Contents” of sorts, or at least, make one appear when the profile is too long.

Why do I say this?

Because it gets annoying when scrolling through a Facebook profile that is several pages long (I’ve seen a lot that are easily more than 10 pages long if printed out).

Facebook is starting to look like a (more organized) MySpace every day - now if only there was a table of contents at the top of every profile that helped you quickly jump to certain sections of the profile, then it would help browsing considerably - AND it would show you what the person had on their profile, just in case you wanted to find out what their favorite music was, if you wanted to post on their wall, or if they were going to the same music concert that you are going to next week!

Here is an example of how it could look like:

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An error message like this from Facebook can really slow down my Facebook Application testing and development.

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I’ve made a new post over at Blog Herald entitled “Keeping categories simple to keep readers happy“. I talk about what’s a great way to organize your blog’s categories, and I also use the categories that I have here at King Gary as an example.

Here’s an excerpt:

Whenever I write a new blog post, I always think about which category suits the post best. I keep the number of categories that I have at a minimal level so that an appropriate category for every blog post is immediately obvious to me.

My rule of thumb for naming categories is, if you’ve got two categories that can overlap each other in an obvious manner, then you’ve got to change something there. Either merge the two categories, or remove one and expand the remaining one. I also tend to review my categories every few months, and if I have a category with less than 10 posts, then I ax it and merge the posts with that category into another category.

Go check it out!

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I just visited Google Docs, and it looks like they had a make-over only a few hours ago. TechCrunch picked up on this and blogged about it.

It certainly was a surprise to see the changes at first. I used Google Docs back in the day, when it was still Writely (and I conversed with the team fairly regularly, giving suggestions, some which were implemented and still are.) So, I was used to the old view.

This new look incorporates folders, which are new, as well as tags, which existed before. Does this mean that tags aren’t working out as well as Google had hoped? TechCrunch poses the question to Gmail to see if they will also implement folders. I personally much prefer Google’s ‘labels’, as they call it, which are essentially just tags. I like these because they give me all the flexibility in the world, and I’m sure most of you who have worked with tags before know what I’m talking about.

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Looks like Apple has a sense of humor when building Mac OS X Leopard. I don’t expect this icon to be in the final version of Leopard, though.

(From radr)

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I’m curious, how does Technorati define what a blog is and is not?

If you do a search on pretty much any website at Technorati, you’ll see that they have it listed there. Examples include Google, Yahoo!, and MSN - all of them ranked 0, because they are not considered blogs by Technorati. How does it discern the difference?

If anyone has any ideas, then feel free to post them in the comments!

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A week ago, Apple released Safari on the Windows platform with great results.

As a web developer, one thing that I’ve been curious about is whether or not Safari also brings with it special Mac fonts and improved graphics to Windows users, and it turns out that it does, as CNET points out at Safari ushers in better browser colors.

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