{"id":959,"date":"2008-08-26T00:52:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T05:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2008-08-26T00:52:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T05:52:24","slug":"google-documents-percipitate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/26\/google-documents-percipitate","title":{"rendered":"Google Documents, Percipitate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been starting to use Google Documents more and more, lately. Its great for collaborating with people, that are not within your Intranet &#8211; i.e. gone are the days of using the internal wiki.<\/p>\n<p>But the Wiki has a good feature &#8211; the history of a page. <tt>Tools -> Revision History<\/tt> seems to solve that for me, in Google Docs (apparently, <tt>File -> Revision History<\/tt> works too). <\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if there were more fonts available&#8230; some truly <i>libre<\/i> fonts, like Liberation. <\/p>\n<p>On the Mac, another tool that&#8217;s worth installing is <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/precipitate\/\">precipitate<\/a>. It allows indexing of your Google Documents in Spotlight, so you can use &#8220;unified search&#8221; to find your documents on your desktop, and &#8220;in the cloud&#8221;. 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Read: In Lahad Datu conflict, Google bombs & Wiki-wars. That's pretty much what I tweeted yesterday. Just check out the revision history for Sabah. Wikipedia tells an interesting tale. Even since 2005, you can see from the Talk\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3086,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/07\/08\/minimum-viable-blogging","url_meta":{"origin":959,"position":1},"title":"Minimum Viable Blogging","date":"8\/7\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019m not a huge fan of the marketing surrounding the \u201clean startup\u201d or the idea of a \u201cminimum viable product\u201d. There\u2019s merit to all these ideas, but the hype is what kills it (for me). I have realised something recently \u2013 I spend a lot of time & energy writing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1152,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/13\/fits-of-irony","url_meta":{"origin":959,"position":2},"title":"fits of irony","date":"13\/11\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a fit of irony, its worth nothing that StarOffice has been dropped from the Google Pack while the Java Runtime Environment will now include the Microsoft Live Search Powered Toolbar on Windows. I always tell people who use Windows to download the Google Pack. Maybe they would include OpenOffice.org\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2748,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/06\/16\/need-private-cloud-services-time-to-start-entrepreneurs","url_meta":{"origin":959,"position":3},"title":"Need private cloud services? Time to start entrepreneurs","date":"16\/6\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"PRISM and the NSA has blown up recently. We have Malaysian politicians worried about it naturally. The opensource zealot will tell you need to prism break. I'm more pragmatic. I prefer opensource. But if there are no opensource alternatives, I will use the proprietary tool. This extends to cloud software\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Business&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3703\/9053278279_59f01d4ab0_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1262,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/07\/on-fearing-the-continuity-of-online-services","url_meta":{"origin":959,"position":4},"title":"On fearing the continuity of online services","date":"7\/1\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I read that co.mments bit the dust. Another web service (who remembers the I Want Sandy discussion a while back), ceasing to exist (though from what I see, a lot of folk are using Disqus more). It got me a little worried. I rely quite a bit on online\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1285,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/28\/offline-gmail-via-google-gears","url_meta":{"origin":959,"position":5},"title":"Offline GMail via Google Gears","date":"28\/1\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I use Thunderbird (current mail client du jour - pine, Evolution, Thunderbird, with maybe a smattering of Pegasus Mail in there for a short span of time) daily. Though I'm tiring of it for my great amounts of personal mail, and have been using GMail, because I can read it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}