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Twitter is not exactly the most productive web app out there, but there are some good reasons to use. Sometimes you want to post more than what you are up to at the moment though, maybe that recent blog post that you found interesting. If you use Google reader to follow your RSS feeds then this handy little Greasemonkey script will help you do just that. Simply install the script and when you log in to Google Reader you will see a little Share on Twitter link. Click it and a window will pop up and ask for your twitter username and password. Once you get past that log in to your Twitter account and there at the top of your timeline will be the article that you posted.

Google Reader + Twitter

Happy Twittering!

Some of the posts in the near future will be old news. I hope you’ll forgive me but some cool things have popped up since I last posted. Anyway….

I was very excited when I woke up on one Wednesday morning about a month ago. The day I had been waiting for had finally arrived. Google had allowed calendar syncing directly with the Blackberry calendar. This development gets me one step closer to mot having to plug my Blackberry into my computer to synch my info. Fortunately the only remaining feature that I need is contact syncing and my contact data doesn’t change all that often.

Anyway, if you carry a blackberry and have been longing to sync your Google Calendar directly and over the air, head over to Google and download this great little app and start getting in sync. click on this link on your Blackberry browser: mobile.google.com and then select Google sync.

Hopefully contact sync won’t be far behind. Once I have over the air sync of contacts, I’ll have the perfect poor man’s Blackberry Enterprise Server. With Gmail’s super fast delivery to the Blackberry, it’s nearly the same level of service, seriously.

 Note: I just discovered that I never published this, so here you go.

One of my favorite web apps, Google Notebook, recently added a mobile version of its website. Google Notebook is great because it allows you to save web content and other text in an easily searchable personal website. There is a nice Firefox extension that allows to copy info directly into the site. The mobile version doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that the full version does, but it’s huge that you can now keep all of your notes (to-do lists and reference data) on your mobile phone.

To check it out go to http://www.google.com/notebook/m on your mobile device.

via Lifehacker

Google Blogoscoped points out some helpful features that Google is testing in Google Labs. I’m especially impressed by the keyboard shortcuts “experiment”.

Check it out here.

I really like T-mobile despite the fact that I work for one of its competitors. In fact, I recently decided that I would check to see if I could save money by using the employee rate plan that I am entitled to by my employer, but after I added my Blackberry data plan and a sizable text messaging package, it wasn’t worth the few cents I would save to cancel my contract. Well today I started thinking about a service I signed up for recently, but haven’t used much yet. GrandCentral (recently acquired by Google) is a service that gives you number that can then be forwarded to a number of different places (home, cell, work, etc.). I signed up for the beta awhile back and haven’t really played with it that much since, but today it occurred to me that since all of these numbers presumably come from the same “number” perhaps I could add it as one of “my five” and all of those calls would be included in myFaves. I haven’t tested it yet, but after looking around to see if anyone else had he same idea, it seems that this will work.

Let me know in the comments if this is working for you.

I just checked out Blackberry Cool and discovered that my online Word Processor and Spreadsheet app of choice now has mobile access. No editing yet, but this is a great start. Check it out at docs.google.com/m. It looks great on my Blackberry Pearl.