Archive for April, 2007

skin gmail, google reader and del.icio.us

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Web worker daily has some nice tips on skinning popular websites. I use the gmail and google reader one and could not be happier.
“Sites like Gmail, Google Reader and del.icio.us
are essential, functional and extensible. We live in them. But
aesthetically, they don’t win raves out of the box. Thank goodness a
web application’s look & feel is […]

Google spreadsheets - now with charts!

Friday, April 20th, 2007

“Google Spreadsheets, which brings Excel-like number crunching to your browser, has added chart capabilities.
To create a chart from an existing spreadsheet, just click the Add Chart icon (which resembles a little pie chart, natch). Your chart choices include columns, bars, lines, pie, and scatter, each with a handful of sub-types (such as 2D and 3D). […]

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

This has made my day! Just as I move accross to google reader to give it a spin. This skin pops up to turn it into a good looking mac app.
“That’s why I like this theme by Hicksdesign.
It will work with Firefox, Camino, Safari, Opera and Omniweb and looks
great. The “add a subscription” window even […]

Google is expecting

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Google will shortly release an update to their documents and spreadsheets app, otherwise known as google docs. It will allow presentation sharing and callaboration sharing (will be interesting to see how this is implemented).
“Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long as we could, but to be
honest, we’ve been dying to tell you […]

newswire

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

ouch!
They say all publicity is good publicity but this has made it to digg.. and I think I wouldn’t like what is going around if I was this developer.
“My RSS newsreader of choice was NewsFire. It’s a great, polished product. Despite a minor annoyance with the trial version, I slapped down my credit-card for […]

a browser for my google

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

My google life is continuing:
What with my mail now in gmail, rss feeds in google reader, my calendar in google calendar, and some documents that I want to share in google docs. I even have google notebook up and running. Things are going well.
However, I am having some trouble with my browsers.
Up to this little […]

switching from mail to gmail

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

As I am switching (as part of my living with google attempt), from mail to gmail, this little trick of using mail tags and the redirect function in apple mail to get my emails into gmail.
“One nice thing about Mail is the Redirect feature, which lets you forward mail to a particular address so that […]

Nokia N95

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Matthew Miller has a interesting review on the Nokia N95 mobile phone.
“It has now been about a week since I have had the Nokia N95 and I think I have had enough time to pass along my experiences with the quality of the hardware to help you make informed decisions regarding the device. I highly […]

apple macbook pro and the waterfield sleeve case

Friday, April 13th, 2007

James over at jkontherun has blogged about using his macbook pro with the waterfield sleeve case.
“I have been loving the 17″ MacBook Pro since it arrived at Mobile Tech Manor
and it has a warm spot (literally) on my desk where it’s performing
well as a complete desktop replacement.  The screen is to die for and
the […]

black belt scheduling with google calendar

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

A great post over at lifehacker about google calendar.
I particularly am interested in this hint on using google calendar for resource scheduling.
“GCal can even help you schedule the use of inanimate objects, like the office projector or meeting space. Using GCal’s Auto-accept invitations feature, any invite to the Conference Room A calendar that doesn’t […]