Archive for the 'google' Category

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 […]

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 […]

google bug

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I have got a case of the google bug quite bad!
I am experimenting with moving most of my computing life over the google online apps.
Why? Well, a number of reasons. One, I am on annual leave and I enjoy this type of stuff - playing with new applications and the like and two, the advantage […]