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As we hurry towards the holidays, the quantity of tech news decreases daily. This isn’t the time of year to launch new products.
Here’s our occasional brief look at what’s news and is being watched in EM-world. Don’t blame the messenger if it looks like only Google and Apple are working this week. I’ve also thrown in a couple of non-tech extras.
Here goes tech list:
- Gmail Integrates Google’s PDF Viewer - If you’re using Gmail, and you should be, you no longer need an external PDF Viewer for viewing attached PDF documents, now Gmail has its own.
- Google Chrome 1.0 Released – If you were waiting for the Google Chrome to be out of beta before you gave it a try, the time is now. Google has removed the beta label.
- Gmail SMS – Send SMS messages from chat in Gmail (You are using Gmail aren’t you?) Replies will appear in a chat Window.
- Export a Gmail message to Google Docs – Here’s my favorite (sorry, it’s Gmail again) — you can now convert any email diretly into a Google word processing doc that can be easily modified. Imagine the possibilities
- No Jobs means no Macworld splash – Not only is Steve “the life of the party” Jobs not going to give the keynote speech at the SF MacWorld in SF next month, this is the last year Apple will attend. Smart move, these things are expensive.
- Rumor: New Mac Mini Coming to Macworld 2009 – MacWorld’s means new Apple product releases. Probably not going to be laptops or iPods, they’ve been announced recently. One guess is that Apple is going to update the low-end Mac Mini.
Your extras:
- David Allen’s Making It All Work a New Look at GTD – Mister “Getting Things Done” (he literally wrote the book on it) David Allen has a new book about how to be a better self-manager.
- The High Price of Cheap Eats – A nutritional review of five “value” meals from the top fast food restaurants — “Jack in the Box’s junior bacon cheeseburger topped the list as the worst offender. The burger costs just one dollar but is packed with 23 grams of fat, including 8 grams of saturated fat, 55 milligrams of cholesterol and 860 milligrams of sodium and just one gram of fiber.”
