Archive for September, 2009
Gmail Slow or Down for Some, IMAP Still Working
Trouble grabbing your mail this morning? Google says Gmail’s web interface is unavailable to an uncannily familiar "small subset of users." They officially recommend accessing Gmail through an IMAP mail client, among other ways to.
Google’s Apps Status Dashboard states that an update will be issued by 8:29 Pacific time with more details, and [...]
FeedDemon 3.0 Final
The official 3.0 version of FeedDemon, the desktop feed reader that synchronizes with Google Reader, is now available, bringing with it many, many fixes, features, and updates.
FeedDemon 3.0 Final [Downloads]
Login to Facebook with your vanity URL
Here’s a bit of ground breaking news for you (or pretty lame news). Facebook, known for their popular social networking website and recently flurry of product and service enhancements, has made possibly the biggest change yet. With over 50 million vanity names reserved since the social networking website started allowing users to pick their own [...]
Picasa 3.5 Organizes Your Photos with Facial Recognition
Google’s free desktop photo organizer added face recognition and sync with Picasa Web Albums.
The new Picasa 3.5 contains a facial recognition feature similar to the one already present on Picasa Web Albums, but letting it run over your likely vast collection of assorted photos stashed on your hard drive is a lot more convenient. Picasa [...]
Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 Available for Download [Downloads]
Posted by theGeek in thunderbird on September 24th, 2009
Mozilla has released a new preview version of their desktop email application in the form of Thunderbird 3 Beta 4, adding a new email search, smart folders, and more.
If you’re a Thunderbird user, you’re probably familiar with what the open-source mail manager can already do, so here’s an edited shortlist of notable new features [...]
Does music really make you more productive ?
The answer falls somewhere between "Listening to Mozart makes you a genius" and "Just be quiet and work."
The most often cited study into the question of music’s effect on the mind involves the so-called Mozart effect, which suggests that listening to certain kinds of music—Amadeus Wolfgang’s classical works, in particular—impacts and boosts one’s spatial-temporal reasoning, [...]
Google Sidewiki Is a Universal Commenting System for the Web [Downloads]
Google Sidewiki is a new browser plug-in that adds a universal commenting system to the web, allowing users to comment and read other people’s comments on any page on the internet. It’s not a new idea, but, well, it’s Google.
Sidewiki installs alongside the Google Toolbar, so it works with both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Google [...]
MMS Hits iPhones Friday Morning, Says AT&T
While they certainly missed the boat on "late summer", AT&T confirmed today on their Facebook page that MMS will launch this Friday, late morning Pacific time. You’ll need to apply new carrier settings to get it up and running, which apparently you’ll have to download through iTunes. It’s like Christmas came early this year—Christmas 2003. [...]
At long last, GIMP v2.8 to finally implement single-window interface
The GIMP is one of those applications that people either seem to love or hate. While it’s always been a powerful and capable alternative to big commercial apps like Photoshop, GIMP’s multiple floating window interface has been hard for some users to adapt to.
Good news to those of you who love the program [...]
Give Ubuntu a facelift with new community themes and icon sets
A lot of new Ubuntu users are put off by the default color scheme. “Brown and orange? Well, it’s really not all that hard to tweak your interface to something more “you” in Ubuntu — and soon there will be some more default options available.
Four new community-developed themes are now available, and [...]