Aphelion (1)
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Today is Aphelion Day, the day when the sun is farthest away from the Earth, about 94.5 million miles. That’s about 3 million miles farther away than at Perihelion which occurred last January 4th. The sun’s light is actually 7% brighter in the first week of January than in the first week of July. I know what some of you are thinking…how come we have the hottest weather (this week not withstanding) when the sun ...
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chouse said:
bill steffen always posts fascinating stuff.
dnalounge update (1)
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DNA Lounge update, wherein the War on Fun is engaged.
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chouse said:
Jamie was an original Netscape developer and now runs a nightclub in san francisco. Seems the local liquor commission is running afoul of its guidelines and torturing san fran night clubs over ridiculous violations.
Big changes to Gmail labels. (140)
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I love labels in Gmail. Most email programs use folders, which only let me put mail in one place at a time. With labels, I can organize mail in multiple ways. Combined with filters to automatically label incoming messages, Gmail offers powerful ways to organize email.When I joined the Gmail team, I was surprised to learn that only 29% of Gmail users had created any labels. At first, I thought perhaps conversation threading and search ...
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Zach said:
proudly on both of those slopes...
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Tom Horn said:
I am a happy member of that 29%. I do love the labels.
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jenna said:
Congrats to the Gmail team and Leggett for his hard work and fantastic blog post to the Google blog!
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Steve said:
Nice to hear the progression from the UX guy.
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Joakim Jardenberg said:
Jag formligen älskar Googles sätt att utveckla. Tänka, testa, totalkolla, tillämpa.
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Jon Wiley said:
Great work by Michael and the Gmail team. I love "Move to."
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Kim Siever said:
Drag and drop! Yay!
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Josh Teague said:
Congrats to Legget and the rest of the team!
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Josh said:
The reason Google kicks everybody's ass is because they rethink everything all the time. Because they can afford to.
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Geoff said:
I'd been asking for better label support since round 2 of invites... They've progressively gotten better but i think this last round finally makes them as useful as i was hoping.
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hua li said:
向用户的妥协？
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bfernald said:
Two menus with nearly identical functionality allow Gmail to double feature adoption.
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dknowles said:
@sarah, who complained when her labels menu changed colors last night
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Leooon said:
Caralho, que fudido esse post! É legal entender um pouco do processo de atualizações dos produtos... gráficos, pesquisas e olhem o número das propostas!
Official Gmail Blog: Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more (207)
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Posted by Damian Gajda, Software EngineerA few months ago Gmail got some new buttons and keyboard shortcuts to make labeling easier, especially for those of you accustomed to that familiar folder feel. Now we're making some more changes to Gmail's labeling toolkit.1) New location for labelsYou'll notice your labels in a new location on the left of your inbox (or on the right, for those of you using the Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu versions of ...
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Jesper Kjær Hansen said:
New location for labels. I sure hope this is not the end for our beloved Folders4Gmail greasemonkey script?
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Adam said:
Finally. Gmail is now feature complete.
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cfohlin said:
This is already enabled on my account and I'm loving it; well done!
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Owen S said:
This is cool, but I don't see it in Gmail yet!
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DarkBls said:
Ouais, mais moi je veux les labels à droite !
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evgeny said:
Finally! I can hide labels! YEY!
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Sergey Gorchichko said:
Gmail рулит...
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Fake said:
Gmailのラベルをドラッグ＆ドロップで付けれるようになったり、表示場所を変えたり出来るようになるらしい。順次追加されていくみたいだけど、自分のアカウントにはまだ実装されてなかった。
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Chung said:
Takes some getting used to
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David Arcos said:
¡Genial!
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Weston said:
Great improvement!
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El Rola said:
Justo cuando pienso que Gmail es perfecto me entero de estas noticias, cada dia mejora mucho mas y es mas que perfecto.El mejor correo electronico del mundo.
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Cyvros/fyc said:
Yesss.
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rina shah said:
gmail keeps coming with such really handy features .. no wonder why I'm badly addicted to it ! :)
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John MacAdam said:
Great update - Im glad this is for all, not just a Gmail labs option
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George Iordanou said:
Αντε με το καλό folders4gmail
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Dougal said:
EPIC FAIL THIS FEATURE SUCKS!!
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jblackhall said:
This is a great improvement
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ashacz said:
Yo lo veo como siempre, supongo que lo irán activando poco a poco. Si me han desaparecido las etiquetas del lado derecho
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Roel said:
Handig!
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Carl Fyffe said:
OH YEAH!! This is so awesome! Much better than the solution I was thinking of.
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Alex Muntean said:
Google is taking additional steps into dumbing down Gmail's labels (make them behave like folders) even more :(I received a UXP shock when I opened Gmail today and I saw a drag handle to the left of every single email! Gmail ppl, the UI is already busy enough. Please don't make it even busier!Oh, and now you can drag&drop labels - however this can be used only for hiding labels, not sorting them. Doh!
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MaTT said:
depuis le temps que j'attendais le fait de cacher les labels les moins utilisés... génial !
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Roshan said:
Nice & neat!
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Kory M. said:
Not sure if I like it but what the hey. :)
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Gine said:
La nuova gestione delle label in Gmail è fantastica, soprattutto per chi ne usa a decine!
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Jeremy Gollehon said:
Cool new gmail functionality.
Researchers: minor genetic flaws may combine to cause autism (11)
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The news coverage of autism is unfortunately dominated by ill-informed attempts to connect it to childhood vaccinations. Behind the hype, however, is a serious issue: diagnoses of the disorder have risen rapidly, while the biology has turned out to be complicated enough to confound early attempts to pin the underlying causes down. Still, progress is being made, and a paper published last week by PLoS Genetics provides a nice opportunity to review the consensus that ...
Maybe that Guy Does Need to Get Laid After All (56)
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We’ve all heard it before, whether you work in a Fortune500 company or waited tables at a restaurant. There’s always an uptight guy or girl who’s defensive, paranoid, over-stressed and nitpicky. And someone– maybe you’re too polite– but someone says, “That guy (or girl) soooo needs to get laid.” (Note, I didn’t use the example “leading tech blog” above. I’d like to keep my job.) A new study says there’s some truth to that. Seriously. ...
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cbsmith said:
This may yet be the most involved process to justify more sex with your spouse. ;-)
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Justin said:
I KNEW it!
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Razzu said:
damn!!
Pastor Asks God to Smite President Obama (8)
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As if President Obama doesn’t have enough to deal with - what with civil unrest in Iran, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and economic malaise at home - now he’s also got a Southern Baptist minister praying for his death. The Rev. Wiley Drake, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., told Fox News Radio earlier this month that he was practicing “imprecatory prayer” – a divine curse – that would ...
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chouse said:
wow.
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Twi said:
Whew - good thing for Obama prayer doesn't really do anything. And if it did, by chance, I'd hope that an 'All Loving God' wouldn't take it upon him/herself to kill the best leader we've had in my lifetime. (note: I'm actually quite malcontent with O-man, but...really, praying for Jebus to smite him?)
Xbox 360 Played on Dallas Cowboys' 11,200 Square Foot Screen [Excess] (22)
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The current largest video screen in the world, in the Dallas Cowboys stadium, measures an insane 159x71 feet. Feet! And what better way to show that immensity off than by playing a little Gears of War? Apparently the gamer who masterminded this hedonistic joyride was Steve Fatone, brother of *NSYNC's Joey and music video director for luminaries like, um, the Jonas Brothers. So maybe his taste in music is suspect, but we think we just ...
Muggers Caught When Their Crime Was Captured by Google Street View [Crime] (28)
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Last September, a 14-year-old Dutch boy was assaulted and robbed after being shoved off his bike. But with no evidence and no real idea who his assailants were, police were powerless—until the crime showed up on Street View. The photo shows the boy being tailed closely by two men who matched the boy's original description, but Dutch police actually had to send a formal request to Google to have the faces unblurred. When Google complied, ...
Job application asks you to provide your Facebook password. (6)
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You stay klassy, Bozeman, Montana. Applying for a job with the City of Bozeman? You may be asked to provide more personal information than you expected. That was the case for one person who applied for employment with the City. The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component of the city's background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and ...
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Jon Parise said:
I'm heading to Bozeman in August for a wedding, and now I'm expecting everyone there to be of the "highest moral character".
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chouse said:
wow. i would seriously not apply there. what an invasion of privacy
Congressman Compares The Plight Of Iranians To GOP On Twitter, Sticks Foot In Mouth (52)
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Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra sent out a tweet yesterday comparing the current oppression of Iranians and their reactions on Twitter to “what we did in the House last year when Republicans were shut down in the house.” Apparently Hoekstra is referring to the time last year where Republicans took to Twitter to express their anger after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi adjourned the House, preventing a vote on an energy bill. I don’t know what’s worse-the ...
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lak said:
Absolutely awesome
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jcastro said:
The responses are brilliant.
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chouse said:
mui hilarious
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Isaac said:
"I don’t know what’s worse-the fact that he is actually comparing a Republican tiff with House Democrats to the oppression and brutality taking place in Iran or the fact that he used Twitter to express this clearly idiotic statement"
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Convoluted said:
Hoekler?
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Vadim Lavrusik said:
hilarious.
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Andrew said:
LOL! Great responses, tweeters.
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Jonathan Sterling said:
ZOMG Epic Hilarious.
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Benny said:
what a big suck of a person
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Stephen said:
rofl! Love the @replies
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girlanachronism said:
Love the responses.
Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number [Google Voice] (51)
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If you call Jason, his iPhone, Pre, Ion and pants all ring because he has Google Voice. The service's biggest downside is that you have a new number to deal with—but TechCrunch says number porting is coming. That means you'll be able to port the phone number you've had for 5 or 10 or 100 years to Google Voice and use whatever phone you want, whenever you want, on whatever carrier you want, with your ...
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Dan B said:
DUDE............The one reason why I haven't really committed to Google Voice may be coming soon!
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BinaryFX said:
Google owns me more and more each day. I cannot wait until Wave is launched either.
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Luke Karrys said:
This looks pretty cool
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Chris Chua said:
Sg please.
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chouse said:
@vanberger
A Twitter Client For the Commodore 64 (37)
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An anonymous reader writes "Johan Van den Brande has developed a Twitter client for the Commodore 64, allowing 140-character messages to be posted directly from this TV-connected 1982 home computer. This YouTube video shows how the Twitter client is — slowly! — loaded from a 5.25" floppy disk, how the latest Twitter messages are downloaded and shown on the TV screen, and how this tweet is posted. All that is needed is a C64, a ...
2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets (62)
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I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Here’s a quick video overview of everything in the new release: The first thing ...
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Jade Robbins said:
Wordpress, yub nub.
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surfmonkey89 said:
Pretty sweet update.
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chouse said:
brb upgrading
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Ryan Sholin said:
I just upgraded. And I'm a big Chet Baker fan, so that's a plus. So far, only one minor annoyance I've spotted, wherein some custom changes I had made to the Search box were overwritten, but that's what I get for mashing the "upgrade automatically" button. ;)
The life of a repo man is always intense. (8)
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The Learjet repo man Inside the cell, Haitian cops had turned Popovich's face inside out. The pain was ungodly. His shoes were gone. He was starving. And Popovich was sitting in a cage surrounded by 35 prisoners spitting epithets in his face. His only priority was to avoid getting hurt any worse than he already was. In his experience, that meant behaving like a total maniac, lashing out at the nearest prisoners and threatening to ...
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