Little things that matter (70)
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Posted by Prakash Chandran, User Experience DesignerSeemingly small improvements can make a surprisingly big difference to people who use our products every day. Take Google Calendar, where over the past few months we've made a bunch of little improvements in direct response to feedback from our most active users.Emailing guestsWe've long offered the ability to email meeting attendees, which can be extremely useful for sharing last-minute details or distributing meeting minutes afterward. But it was ...
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Brett L. said:
Congrats, Prakash. These are great changes. Polish matters!
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gfurry said:
If you aren't using Google Calendar to manage your kids sports and school activites you should take a look at it. It keeps my wife and I sane.
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Michael Leggett said:
Congrats Prakash!
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Matthom said:
Google Calendar improvements worth a look.
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faizal said:
Still don't have this features at my Gmail and also Google Apps email.
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Aadom The Wygle said:
getting closer
KlipFolio might be the only desktop widget you ever need (5)
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Filed under: Internet, Windows, Freeware, Beta, web 2.0 KlipFolio is a desktop application that lets you access online content like RSS feeds, weather forecasts, Flickr slideshows, YouTube videos, and other web content. We first checked out KlipFolio more than two years ago when it was little more than a widgetized RSS reader. But the application has come a long way since then.You can now use KlipFolio to subscribe to all sorts of content. Pretty much ...
Photo Albums in Google Docs (62)
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Google Docs will expand beyond documents. After adding support for storing PDFs, Google Docs will provide ways to create photo albums. It's not very clear if you'll be able to access the photos stored in Picasa Web Albums or create different photo albums, but GDrive is certainly here and its name is Google Docs.The first screenshot has been created using information from Google's code, which already includes an icon of the photo section. The other ...
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xsolutions said:
Mi jöhet még a Google-től?
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paul.grayson said:
Cool! Upload pdf books to Google Docs then read them on your iphone..
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patarakin said:
Альбомы в ГДоксе
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paul said:
This is interesting. So if this is true, with a google account you can create a domain and have access to:- email- IM- calendar- spreadsheets- docs- presentations- photosFor free. There's YouTube if you want to stretch the analogy. And I guaran-goddam-ty you that they have a music sharing app. All "management" in iTunes is is glorified search anyway. They can easily replicate that with Ajax, and all that's left is for you to upload all your music to their cloud. I agree with this re: GDRive. They've skipped the whole concept. Why would you care about a "drive" if everything's just uploaded and accessible? And who needs Live Mesh? Sure seems to me like they're going to be the repository for all your data, accessible via the browser, and they'll leave the OS to MS/Apple.All the OS will be is a glorified browser launcher, just like people worried about with Netscape years ago.
Operator: Portable Anonymous Opera Browsing (13)
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Filed under: Security, Windows, Freeware, Browsers I'm not a big Opera fan, but I have to say I'm pretty impressed with Operator - a portable version with built-in Tor (hence the semi-clever name) anonymous browsing.Download the 7mb zip and extract it to your flash drive, and you've got an excellent way to keep your surfing on public and work computers safe and private. I was surprised with the speed at which pages loaded, having used ...
The Big Con $(li type>square$) We were promised: Thousands of jobs and billions in investments $(li type>square$)We got suckered with: Failed businesses and broken agreements (1)
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Exclusive: Our arms deal probe uncovers more dodgy dealings Megan Power and Jocelyn Maker The government has allowed the German industrial giant accused of paying a R30-million bribe to President Thabo Mbeki to break a raft of promises attached to the arms deal.MAN Ferrostaal won the R6-billion submarine contract in the arms deal partly on the strength of a R20-billion investment pledged to the economy. But an investigation into Ferrostaal’s offsets has uncovered a trail ...
MiniLyrics Automatically Fetches and Displays Lyrics for Your Media Player [Featured Windows Download] (25)
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Windows only: The MiniLyrics plug-in automatically downloads and displays lyrics for the currently playing song for a handful of the most popular media players. With support for everything from iTunes and Windows Media Player to Winamp and MediaMonkey, MiniLyrics fetches lyrics and—when possible—plays them back karaoke-style. The interface is completely skinnable, and you're likely to find a skin matching your preferred media player. You can also view floating lyrics in big red text for large, ...
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Jeff said:
To all music lovers, this might be a great little add-on.
TweetParty Does Group Messaging for Twitter (13)
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Filed under: Web services, web 2.0If you're still into Twitter (and apparently a lot of you are), TweetParty offers a yet another service based on the Twitter API that you might want to check out.To get started, just sign in with your Twitter user name and password and you're shown the "my groups" page. Enter a name for your group, click the "create" button, and TweetParty will add it to the current page.Clicking "manage" gets ...
Calgoo goes free: sync Google Calendar, iCal, and others for free (30)
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Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Productivity, Web services, Google, Freeware Since the dawn of time Google Calendar, we've been waiting for a free, easy way to fully synchronize our Google Calendar to desktop calendar clients like iCal. We'd love to be able to access the same calendar data across multiple computers, but it's always been a messy affair, not free, an incomplete solution, or PC only. Well, Calgoo has been one of those paid options ...
Twhirl adds Identi.ca support (1)
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Filed under: Blogging, Social SoftwareAdobe AIR-based microblogging client Twhirl already supported Twitter, Friendfeed and Seesmic, and now its coverage of the world of mini-updates gets even broader with the addition of Identi.ca. Identi.ca is something like a less-popular open-source version of Twitter. This is a big deal for the Identi.ca folks, because Twhirl may actually be better-known than their service. Along with potentially pumping up the userbase of a fledgling microblogging site, Twhirl has also ...
Google Docs introduces template gallery (3)
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Filed under: Business, Design, Internet, Office, Productivity, GoogleA lot of desktop word processing and text editing apps feature templates you can use to jazz up your documents -- or make them look terrible, depending on your opinion. Now Google Docs gives you the same option, with a new template gallery. There are over 300 templates, featuring everything from resumés to cards to calendars. The selection of different templates is impressively versatile. Expense reports, presentations, invitations ...
New CPIX weightings puzzle Schussler (1)
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By Evan Pickworth, I-Net BridgeWhile chief economist from T-Sec Mike Schussler says he agrees with the Investec Asset Management assessment on CPIX readings being overstated, he is also concerned about the actual changes in the weightings due to be implemented in January next year."I expect CPIX to be at just under 9% next year, but it could be a bit better with the weightings. But you must be careful with the weightings as it appears ...
Opposition prepares for war in Zim (1)
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Thabo Mkhize Zimbabwe is on the verge of a civil war, the Human Science Research Council has warned.It says Movement for Democratic Change supporters are arming themselves to fight against President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF militia and supporters. Some of the shocking findings in a report, titled Saving Zimbabwe: An Agenda for Democratic Peace, presented by the HSRC in Johannesburg yesterday are: Young Zimbabwean men are getting military training in Western Africa; MDC activists are being ...
“Political conspiracy” = “yes I am guilty” (1)
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I have a new rule for deciphering the utterances of politicians. As soon as one says that he or she is the victim of a political conspiracy, I replace the words “political conspiracy” with the words “yes I am guilty”. The way in which politicians cry “conspiracy” when they are caught stealing our money is becoming tedious and laughable. Come up with something more original guys! The latest example is our dear Minister of Sport, ...
Land Bank feud exposed (1)
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Nkululeko Ncana How fired Land Bank boss described his minister’s interference EXCLUSIVE: A frank letter from axed Land Bank chairman Themba Langa to Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Lulu Xingwana, and subsequent interviews with both, have revealed a bitter feud sparked by Langa’s efforts to recover billions of rands of public money.Langa’s appointment in March was aimed at turning around the bank, which has failed to recover close to R2-billion in loans made to ...
