Wonderful Gmail just got more wonderful

February 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

No surprise to readers here, I like love Google’s Gmail. I think it is a great way to read email and not only is it the best web-based email system, it’s the best overall mail reader including mail.app on the Mac and Outlook on the PC.

My gushing fanboy support for Gmail always had one caveat — it couldn’t be used offline. What to do in planes and locations without wi-fi?

Problem solved.

Gmail now uses the open source Gears technology which allows websites to be used offline by storing necessary information while online.

You can now read your already received email and compose new messages while offline. When you’re back online the messages will be sent.

If you’re a Gmail users, and why wouldn’t you be, go to the Labs menu in settings and enable Offline. This one put a menu entry in of Offline (1.0) in the upper right corner of the screen. Choose that option and you will be guided through installing Gears, if necessary, and storing information on your computer.

There is even a “Flaky Connection Mode” that can be used to stay safe when you can’t trust your connection, as is often the case with public wi-fi spots like coffee shops.

More info from the source.


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Need a quote to make a point? Try QuotesDaddy

January 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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A pithy quote is often the best way to make a point. 

Using QuotesDaddy, a free website service, you can search for the ideal quote and then share it, copy it or embed it in a web page.

Try it, it’s fun, useful and free. QuotesDaddy.com

 

 

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Arrington Started it

January 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Over at TechCrunch, Michael Arrington posted his list of the computer applications he can’t do without, his were all web services with his iPhone thrown in for good measure.

Mike’s is a  good list and well worth reading his post explaining his choices.

Monkey see, monkey do — I made my list.  The official Enquiring Mimes list includes a few desktop applications that I use and all are applications are ones I use everyday.

Here they are in fairly random order.

  1. Gmail.com – Without a doubt my favorite email application, a web
  2. Evernote - Both web and desktop for storing and organizing clips.  Syncs between computers.
  3. Windows Live Writer – Best desktop blogging applications, only Windows, unfortunately.
  4. Google Chrome, Firefox- Still haven’t picked a favorite between the two browsers.  I like Firefox extensions, but also like Chrome’s spareness and speed.  Really flies on Gmail.
  5. Pandora.com – My fun choice.  Any kind of music I can think of, I listen on and off all day.
  6. Twitter.com – My micoblogging addiction in 140 characters.  Follow me.
  7. Techmeme.com – First stop for all tech news.
  8. Skype.com – I spend the day making calls using Skype, for US almost free, for the rest of the world, very inexpensive.  Sorry t-mobile.
  9. WordPress -  all the blogs use this wonderful open source software.
  10. Google Reader – Cutting down on web surfing with very powerful RSS reader.
  11. Picasa – Excellent photo organizer and enhancer from Google.  As of today, available for Mac, too.
  12. Google Docs, Zoho - I haven’t picked a favorite, use both to replace MS Office.  Both free, both great, both good collaboration.
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Kübler-Ross for Twitter

December 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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The Twitter love it or hate it reaction is similar to love-hate we have in the human experience with death so it makes sense that there be 5 Stages of Twitter Acceptance beginning with Denial, much like in Elisabeth Kübler-Ross outlined in her book “On Death and Dying.”

Acceptance of Twitter, of course, is much less finite than in Kübler-Ross model.

5 Stages of Twitter Acceptance [Influential Marketing Blog]

The Kübler-Ross model first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying”, describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness. The stages are known as the Five Stages of Grief. [via wikipedia]

The stages are:

  1. Denial:
    • Example – “I feel fine.”; “This can’t be happening, not to me!”
  2. Anger:
    • Example – “Why me? It’s not fair!” “NO! NO! How can this happen!”
  3. Bargaining:
    • Example – “Just let me live to see my children graduate.”; “I’ll do anything, can’t you stretch it out? A few more years.”
  4. Depression:
    • Example – “I’m so sad, why bother with anything?”; “I’m going to die . . . What’s the point?”
  5. Acceptance:
    • Example – “It’s going to be OK.”; “I can’t fight it, I may as well prepare for it.”
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Keep Your Notes in Gmail

December 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment

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Use Gmail?  If you do, you have a free cross-platform, accessible anywhere-you-have-access-to-the-web perfect place to keep your lists. 

When I say lists, I mean the important ones.  There are plenty of useful programs and services for keeping track of the old to-do list.  I’m talking about the real ones like grocery lists, and errand lists and the “honey do” lists.

Just start a new message, give it a title, no addressee necessary, type your list and when you’re finished save it as a draft.  Your list will always be available from a computer on the internet as well as your Blackberry, G1 or iPhone. 

If you don’t use Gmail, you should.  Sign-up for it here.

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