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• tag2find - tagging any desktop files
  tagging on the desktop
  (tags: tags search desktop)

• John Battelle’s Searchblog: 2006 Predictions: How Did I Do?
  2006 predictions rated, 2007 prediction
  (tags: predictions trends business)

• Miscellaneous Shellfish: Emergency prep list
  cousin flora’s guide to emergency preparedness
  (tags: earthquake emergency preparedness)

• Geonames
  web service for geocoding place names
  (tags: geocoding gis api webservice)

• Break Your Cingular Contract Without Fee, Thanks 2 Txt Msg $ Raise - Consumerist
  Gimlet-eyed Cingular customers may have noticed the cellphne provider changing its text message rates from $.10 to $.15 and realized they can use that to escape contract without early termination fee.
  (tags: mobile cingular)

• SimplePie: Super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom Parsing.
  SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, for reading RSS and Atom syndication feeds. By keeping it simple, and focusing on what’s important, we’ve built a pretty sweet little API. SimplePie’s focus has been two-fold: speed and
  (tags: rss programming xml)

• openkapow
  openkapow, a mashup-focused developer community. The new site leverages their visual programming language and IDE to build robots that run on the Kapow Mashup Server. Together they turn any web page into a structured data source. Built-in support includes
  (tags: api web2.0 rss)
• Thoughts on SalesForce.com: URL Structure
  Recently I decided I wanted to create soom “quick launch” bookmarklets for Salesforce.com.
  (tags: salesforce.com)
• Swivel - Home
  Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data.
  (tags: statistics data visualization)

From their Appexchange page:

CampaignerPro is an advanced yet affordable email
marketing application that leverages your CRM data to deliver targeted,
highly-personalized automated campaigns to your Leads and Contacts.
Deliver the right message, to the right person at the right time.

got corp used to donate to nonprofits, nothing on their website about starting that program back up. Anybody know?

• Formatting Word fields with switches
  Word provides the means to format the contents of fields inserted into the document, by the use of ’switches’ or masks. The full range of these switches can be found at the end of this page.
  (tags: office howto Word mailmerge)

Here’s an Appexchange package that generates a Tax Receipt Id for an Opportunity. In Canada, you have to give sequential tax receipt numbers to each donor. Salesforce does autonumber really well, but we need to only give these out to donations that come in the door, so we need more control.

The package consist of an S-Control and Custom Link you put on the Opportunity object. When you click the custom link from the Opportunity, you get the next tax receipt id, which is written to the tax receipt id field on the Opp.

The next available id is stored in a custom object. When you set this up, you need to create that object and give it your starting number for your tax receipts. It will then increment for you as you give out tax ids.

In Winter ‘07 this should be easier because we can just do a query of the tax receipt ids in use, sort by tax receipt id, and limit the result set to 1. That would give us the highest number in use and we could increment that. Then we won’t need a custom object to store the number…