Are you looking for the magic button in Google Chrome that will allow you to send the webpage you are looking at to a friend?

There isn’t one.

So lets make it in a few quick, simple, steps!

1) Open Chrome and Right Click on any bookmark you have across the top of your browser.

2) Click on Add Page

For NAME:
eMail Link

For URL:
javascript:location.href=’mailto:?SUBJECT=’+document.title+’&BODY=’+escape(location.href);

3) Save it!

Now when you need to share the latest Geek Fill posting or awesome Craft Beer discovery – just click “eMail Link!”

If you use Google Calendar sync and have upgraded to Microsoft Office 2010 you’ve no doubt discovered that the two don’t work together. Here’s the world’s easiest fix:

1. Download this file: GoogleCalendarSync.zip
2. Unzip it
3. Go to C:\Program Files\Google\Google Calendar Sync
4. Rename GoogleCalendarSync.exe to OLDGoogleCalendarSync.exe
5. Move the new GoogleCalendarSync file to this folder.
6. Launch  Goggle Calendar Sync.exe
7. Fixed.

In the simplest of terms, the latest version of the Sync.exe file reads the version of Microsoft Outlook differently from the way the older version of the same file does. We are simply replacing the latest version of the file with a slightly older one.

Cheers!

UPDATE 17Aug: Google has released an update that should work with the 32 bit version of Outlook 2010

Have you ever seen someone’s photos online and noticed that there is a map showing exactly where the photo was taken? Ever wish the Latitude and Longitude information your iPhone attaches to photo’s was more accurate? Need to correct GeoData? No Problem! YOU can do it!

Here is a great freeware program to easily and quickly geotag your photos. When I say quickly, I mean I can do a hundred photos in a few minutes.

Before we get started, take a quick look at the posting on How To Manage Pictures From Multiple Digital Cameras – (Think Family Vacations, Out with friends, Company Picnic, etc. . . )

Ready Freddie? Go download and install GeoSetter from Here.

You’re back! Great! Start up GeoSetter and you should have a screen that looks like this:

The first thing you will notice is that the map defaults to Berlin.

Let’s fix that. First, Click the pencil icon under the map. This will expand the Edit Fields

Next, lets enter a location we want the map to default to every time we open this program. You enter your address, I’ll enter 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Type your address in the Search field and select Search.

You will see a red upside-down tear drop marker. Zoom in a little bit on the map, get comfortable moving it around.

That red marker is key! The latitude and longitude of that marker will be transferred to our photos when we geotag them. If you click on the map you will notice that the marker moves around. This is how you correct the geotag location or make it more exact. How easy is that?!

Lets add your address to your GeoSetter favorites.

Got the marker on your house? Right above the search box, next to the Favorite field, select Add/Edit…

Give the location a name (Like Home) and then click the Get From Web bar to auto-populate the additional data:

Select OK and you will see that Home is on the Favorite location now! Feel free to add a few more places where you regularly take photos. (Work, Lake House, Neighbor’s Back Yard, Etc.) This will be such a time saver later!

Now that you have your home location saved, lets setup GeoSetter so that your default location is your home instead of the City of Berlin. Du bist kleine Berliner!

Select File -> Settings -> Map and then in the Initial Map Position box hit the drop down and use the location of your choice ( like Home!) Select OK at the bottom and you’re done!

Awesome!

Now that you have GeoSetter all configured, lets start at the beginning – GO!

1) Open GeoSetter

2) Navigate to the folder where your photos are stored

3) Select the location the photos were taken by:
- Choosing a stored Favorite, or
- Entering an Address and selecting Search, or
- Navigating the map manually and clicking on it so the red tear drop is where the photo was taken.

4) With the teardrop in position, Select photos taken at that location!
- Click a photo on the left and it will get a blue outline, that means it is selected
- Click one and type CNTRL-A to highlight all the photos in a folder.
- Holding down ALT will allow you to click on several photos:

Got the photos selected that you want to tag from the teardrop’s position? Hit the Assign Position Marker To Selected Image button:

You will see the GeoData in red under the photos you selected! If you make a mistake – No Problem! Just repeat the process to fix a bad location.

Continue on geotagging all of the photos you have in the folder. When you are finished you simply need to select the SAVE icon!

You will see a progress bar under the photos and the red data will change to black when it has been written to the photograph.

You’re done! How easy was that!

For advanced users – if you use a GPS tracking device like a Garmin Forerunner, you can import the data into GeoSetter and have it automatically GeoTag the photos! I love this feature!

Photo’s are geotagged, upload ‘em to Picasa Web or your favorite photo storage location.

Questions or comments? Leave em here!

Unless you were sleeping under a rock today, you must know that Google has created it’s first web-browser. Originally the comic book was leaked, then Google followed up by releasing the application for download.

Google “Chrome” is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.

List of Features

Go Get Yourself a Copy (Windows Only)

So far the first thing I have noticed is that it is FAST. Notably faster than Firefox.

Second thing I noticed is that I am seeing ads because I cant use Adblock plus . . .

I don’t think I will be abandoning Firefox anytime soon, but its fun to be able to say you installed Google’s first web-browser the day it was released!

I have a personal laptop at home that has my personal calendar stuff in it. At my office I have a different laptop that uses Microsoft exchange and has my work calendar information.

I want the two to merge – to be the same – to show evening appointments in my work calendar and daytime meetings in my home calendar. (The exchange server detail isn’t important, it just happens to be what my company uses. This will work on any plain old Outlook calendars)

By synchronizing the two,  when I dock my iPhone at home I get both my personal and business appointments on it. If I change jobs I can just decouple the business laptop calendar and life moves on.

Easy Cheesy McPheesy:

• Download Google Calendar Sync on both computers
• Make sure you have a free account from Google Calendars
• Install the software and select 2-way
• Select sync every 20 minutes.

Now, when you add an appointment at home, it syncs to Google Calendar, in a few minutes your work laptop syncs as well and ads the appointment to your work computer. Delete an business appointment, it syncs to Google, then Syncs with home and the appointment is removed from all three!

Another added benefit is the ability to see your complete calendar online.

One note: Mark any personal appointments you don’t want the world to see as Private and when your boss looks at your calendar in Exchange he won’t see that you are taking banjo lessons every Tuesday at 11 or going to Office Supply Kleptomaniac’s Anonymous twice a week.