In Link on 2009-12-05 by Joshua
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: client, extensions, tip
If like me you find Chrome gives you the most stable, enjoyable experience of Google Wave, you might also be pining for the notifier extension Firefox users get.
Well now Chrome has a neat little extension that does the same thing. Jeremy Selier has built a neat little plugin that shows you how many unread waves you have in your inbox. It checks every thirty minutes by default (at the request of the Wave team), but you can set it to check more frequently in the extension options.
Something that makes a sound, or pops up a notification box (Growl-style) would be even more useful in some circumstances (Firefox is still my main browser of choice). However, if you need a simple way to see new Wave activity without checking the window every couple of minutes, this might just be the thing.
Chrome Extension — Google Wave Checker
In Post on 2009-11-15 by Cathie
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Name: Cathie Tranent
Site: http://cathiet.blogspot.com/
About: Cathie Tranent (@CathieTranent) would have loved to have been a geek (said with love and respect) except for her amazingly short attention spa... oh look at the pretty birdy! She has offered her services to this blog as the ultimate "bloody end user" and will be presenting her thoughts on Wave and what it has to offer the techalogically challenged as the adventure unfolds.See Authors Posts (2) Tagged: api, fun, gadgets, wave
Now I’m rather pleased that I can get myself around Wave, post links to my photos and generally do all the good stuff.
There are however, people of my acquaintance who are a lot more technologically ‘ept’ (it should be a word, you know — the opposite of inept) and have started mucking about under the bonnet of Wave.
One of these is Dave, and the other day he introduced me to a little gadget he calls 5×5. The object of the game is to totally fill the grid with black squares. Clicking on a square results in that square (and those around it as seen in the initial pattern below) toggling its colour. There is a solution in 14 moves.
DaveP’s 5×5
I’ll hand over to Dave to explain what it is, how it came about, and how it works.
5×5 is a puzzle I first saw as a DOS PC thing back in the late 1980s. I wrote my own version of it back then (just for fun) and, ever since, it’s sort of been my “try a new environment” project. I’ve written versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2, the old Palm Pilot and even for GNU emacs.
Some time back I quickly wrote a HTML/Javascript version so, given that that’s pretty much all a Wave gadget is, I reworked it as a gadget. The main difference with this version is that it’s coded with the state of the game held in the Wave. This means that a) you can always come back to it and it’ll be how you left it and b) everyone who is part of the Wave can see what’s happening and can also make moves.
All you have to do is use the “add a gadget” toolbar button (the one that looks like a green jigsaw) and just input this URL in the dialog that you get: http://serenity.davep.org/5x5/5x5.xml
Hmm — the fun stuff begins!
Oh, and PS … I couldn’t do the puzzle (/grin) not even using Wave’s fabulous “playback” feature!
In Status on 2009-11-15 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78)
Get a Google Wave invite in half an hour. Leave a comment on a post at http://firstwaves.org and get your invite tonight!
In Post on 2009-11-15 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: invites
I just nominated someone for a Wave account and they received it within thirty minutes. That and the number of invites I last received (30) lead me to think that Wave accounts are no longer the hard-to-get commodity they once were.
Oh well, no more $100 invites on eBay.
In Link on 2009-11-10 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: blogging, bots, use case
Google fan Lookon has created a Bot to post to his Posterous blog, and written detailed instructions on how to do it.
It’s straight forward enough, add the bot and log in to the form it gives you. The next time you add the bot to a wave, the first wavelet gets posted at Posterous and it returns the URL for you to check.
Posterous seems to have the most diverse posting options of any blogging software available, and the addition of posting from waves puts it again at the forefront.
Now the bot needs to monitor comments and return them to the original wave for even tighter integration.
How to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Posterous [Western Bridge over Google Wave]
(via Kerrie Anne’s Fridge Magnets)
In Status on 2009-11-10 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78)
Requesting an invite for Tweetboard Alpha (http://tweetboard.com) by @140ware, for my site: http://firstwaves.org
Set suitable expectations. Despite the months of buzz, and blogosphere– and Twitterverse-wide clamoring for Google Wave invites, the product is still in preview and has some rough edges. Therefore, it does all parties good to be realistic, even if everybody is psyched to be the first kid on their block to use it on a live project.
6 Tips For Using Google Wave On Your First Project.
This is the first of six excellent things to keep in mind when using Wave for the first time, let alone on a project. Wave is full of potential, but people seem to forget it’s still just getting off the ground.
I love that people are using it for projects already.
Posted 2009-11-10 by Joshua
In Post on 2009-11-10 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: first look, fun, tip, use case
By now if you’ve been using Wave long enough you should know that a search for [with:public] gets you a big long fast updating list of all the Waves that people have shared with the world. If you’ve been reading the Complete Guide to Google Wave you might know to narrow down the search with tags and terms too.
But were you aware that Local Waves have popped up everywhere as well, and you can find users near you just by plugging your city/suburb into the search (with the public wave search) eg. [with:public city name]. If you can’t immediately find a Wave for your location, you can start one! Just create a crafty title, and make the Wave public. Encourage people who join to mark themselves on a map, and shout out their Twitter/social details for people to connect elsewhere.
Have a tonne of fun, and stay safe!
In Status on 2009-11-10 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78)
Blatant grab for readers: Leave a comment anywhere on http://firstwaves.org for a Google Wave invite. @reply me so I can get email details.
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