Totally Doodgical
A look at business, law and life from a technophile.
Get Last Modified Date from Webpage You’re Visiting
616 years
I found a neat little trick that allows me to get a last modified date / last changed date from a webpage I’m viewing.
Simply copy the code below into your address bar and it will cause a window to pop-up with the last modified date.
javascript:alert("Last Modified " + document.lastModified)
Very neat trick.
–Ben
Source: About.com
Utah Safety Data – Violence and Injury Data by Neighborhood on the web
0Wow. Utah does some cool stuff. If you’re a Utahn, this may be interesting to see how your fellow people fare, statistically. In all seriousness, it shows underlying data about neighborhood safety.
Personally, I’m impressed with Utah.gov. It’s simple and quick to use and the Utah government seems to try to do a lot online, such that its a convenience to use for residents.
–Ben
Source: Utah.gov, Utah Dept of Health, Utah Violence and Small Area Report
Android 2.1 Droid Update imminent on Verizon -maybe multitouch
0Motorola just announced on their facebook page today that the Droid will get Android 2.1.
My hope is that it fixes the corporate exchange email settings and IMAP bug. Engadget reports that the 2.1 update should add multi-touch to the web browser. But we shouldn’t expect to see all the Nexus One bells and whistles. However, we’ll have to wait and see.
Happy Updating. Oh and backup that phone.
–Ben
Is Google Autocomplete an indicator of our societal decline?
0I just came across AutoCompleteMe.com and laughed. I can’t believe the results. Go view our declining intelligence and you tell me: Is this an indicator of our decline?
–Ben
Source: Consumerist.com, AutoCompleteMe.com
Bounce = Google Analytics Average Time on Site 00:00:00
3Just a quick note to those in the Google analytics world that I’ve helped get on the road – an average time on site of 00:00:00 means a bounce. Google Analytics requires a second pageview on your website to calculate time spent on your website. If there’s no second pageview, there’s no “time” spent on your site, even if they spent an hour looking at that one page?
So if your website is like mine, that has a good sprinkling of one 0ff content – like my various fixes under Helpdesk – you’re going to get dinged big for average time spent on site.
A bonus is that I hear that the 00:00:00 is only calculated for the average time on site and not on average time on a page.
–Ben
Good Reference: Scott McAndrew
Fix – Page Numbering in Word 2007 Fails / Broken and gives MERGEDOCUMENT gibberish
0I just ran past a strange error in Microsoft Word 2007 on windows. A colleague and I tried to insert page numbers at the bottom of the document and got some strange text.
We were opening a microsoft word .doc file (word 97-2003) with microsoft word 2007 in compatability mode. The solution appears to me that you need to get out of compatability mode.
Here’s the fix:
- Revert back to before you put in the page numbers (IE don’t save it – just close the file and re-open or hit undo)
- Save the file as a .docx file (word 2007 document)
- Close Word
- Open the .docx file
- Add Page Numbers and continue editing
- If you need to go back to the .doc format, save the file as a .doc file (word 97-2003) format after you’ve made your changes.
Hope that helps you.
–Ben
(no sources, just trial and error here)
Droid had Two Calendar Applications – Only Corporate Calendar Syncs with Exchange Unless …
1UPDATE 8/16/2010: With Android 2.2 Froyo, there appears to only be one calendar application again. The corporate and google calendar applications are now merged into one. As far as I can tell, it pulls from both the google calendar and the microsoft exchange calendar.
–Ben
ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
So, I just had a stupid problem today. I thought there was only one calendar application for Droid. Acutally, the calendar application is for google calendar. The corporate calendar syncs with Exchange.
Luckily, if you want your exchange calendar to sync with google calendar and your calendar application, there is a way. A way by google. Download and install Google Calendar Sync. It will allow one-way or two-way sync to your google calendar. Could be very nifty.
Otherwise, you can stick with the corporate calendar app native to Droid.
–Ben
Resources:
Droid Dock – Quick review
0I was asking my buddy if he liked his Droid dock, as I’m starting to use mine for my alarm clock. His comments weren’t exactly praising. Here’s his bullet summary:
- Lighting is too bright in a dark room, even when dimmed
- You have to push the Droid on and then pull it off, its not just a “drop on” experience
- Pretty lame as a multi-media experience – you use the Droid speaker and there’s no audio out jack (other than the Droid itself)
- Can use the phone by sliding up the screen and exposing the keyboard.
- He was luke-warm as to recommending it to friends to buy
I just found this Youtube video which seems to echo my friend’s experience. Thanks to AndriodCentral.com.
You can find the dock at Amazon.com. It also appears that Amazon.com has a car mount for those turn by turn directions. (Just links, no referer id for me, etc)
–Ben
Add a Custom Alarm on the Droid, for the Alarm Clock
0I wanted to make a custom alarm for my Droid, as I now use it as my alarm clock. Unfortunately, its not as obvious as it would look. Here’s what I did:
- Make a folder in the root called “alarms” (either by tethering your Droid to the computer or using Astro)
- Use RingDroid to cut up one of my audio files and put it as an alarm (or you can just place the audio file in the alarm folder)
- Now it is selectable on the alarm list
Hope this helps you as well.
–Ben
Droid has more expensive components than Nexus One or iPhone 3GS says iSuppli
0iSuppli came out for a bill of materials for the Droid and it has more expensive stuff in it than the other phones. At least that can help us get over the touchscreen issue.
Here’s the comparison of costs:
- Droid – $187.75
- Nexus One – $174.15
- iPhone 3GS – $178.96
- Palm Pre – $138 – see engadget
As to the breakdown of costs: here’s a summary of what iSuppli says:
- microSD – 16GB – $35
- Display – $17.75
- Touchscreen Overlay – $17.50
- Camera – $14.25
- Transceiver – $14.04
- Processor – $12.90
- 4 Gb Flash and 2Gb DDR Memory – $9.20
- Bluetooth/WLAN/FM Transceiver – $6.50
- 1Gbit NAND and 512Mbit Memory – $4.90
- Battery – $4.25
- Other – $42.82
- Manufacturing – $8.64
For a whopping total estimate of $187.75
–Ben