In the hallowed tradition of unread item counts on your Gmail and Google Reader favicons in Firefox, user script developer Peter Wooley offers the same for Google Voice users. If you’v... Read more
My latest story for Macworld tackles one of the more interesting types of new web applications: it’s called Save money with Web-based money managers. Online banking is one thing, but t... Read more
On each new episode of This Week in Google (details) I’ll highlight a tip for using cloud/Google apps smarter, faster, and better. I’ll document those tips here. You use Firefox, you kee... Read more
Update, July 2010: Twitalytic has been renamed ThinkUp. Been hacking away at a personal programming project, tentatively named Twitalytic, a web application that archives your tweets and men... Read more
You’re out and about with your laptop and you’re in need of some fast internet connectivity. Here are some tried and true ways to find and get free Wi-Fi. Photo by °Florian. The... Read more
The latest version of the Better Gmail 2 Firefox add-on boasts a useful new feature: a summary panel of unread email grouped by sender, as shown above. In version 0.9 of the add-on, check of... Read more
Just released an update to my Firefox add-on, Better GReader 0.7.2, which contains a few fixes plus a new integrated print button. Huge thanks to the folks at Mozilla for making Better GRead... Read more
On each new episode of This Week in Google (details) I’ll highlight a tip for using cloud/Google apps smarter, faster, and better. I’ll document those tips here. The J and K keys... Read more
My favorite way to find photos (especially for publication in blog posts and use in presentations) saw a big upgrade today: Flickr’s search results page is now a whole lot easier to br... Read more
Used to be that when you sent Gmail messages with a custom from address, there would be an “On behalf of you@gmail.com” bit added to the headers of the message because you were u... Read more
Registering for an account at any web site almost always requires an email address, and some people like to use a secondary address they don’t really care about instead of their real e... Read more
One of the most basic features a good software application offers is a way for users to get the data they put into the system out. Sounds reasonable, no? But that isn’t the way it work... Read more
Google’s recent improvements to Gmail’s labels broke one of Better Gmail 2‘s most-loved features: Folders4Gmail. Folders4Gmail displays labels with slashes in them as subfo... Read more
Google’s rolling out some improvements to Gmail labels today, including drag-and-drop labeling, smart hiding of labels you use less often, and a location promotion to right below your... Read more
The official release of Firefox’s latest version 3.5 is available for download by the non-beta-testing public today. The folks at Mozilla Add-ons do a great job of nudging their extens... Read more
bignose in: The Jobsian fallacy
I think a lot of people get swept up in the romance of Steve's story. ...
Sorin Matei in: ThinkUp Archives and Analyzes Your Social Media Life
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screenbeard in: ThinkUp Archives and Analyzes Your Social Media Life
Absolutely brilliant. ThinkUp was a breeze to install. Both hiccups I ...
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I...I think I love you. No, seriously, this is a) awesome and b) go ...
Dewbie in: The Jobsian fallacy
I am in total agreement with this statement and maybe be even guilty o ...