I really like the new Beach theme in Gmail. The problem I have with it is that the scroll bar on the right becomes invisible in Google Chrome. On the right is a snip from my screen. Fortunately, we can fix this with an extension and some script. First, go get the Stylish extension and [...]
What I’m reading and finding for July 2nd 2011 through July 4th 2011: Google Plus Nick – Get a short url to your Google profile. From Twitter – RT @loic Twitter drops following requirement for DMs on Verified Accounts http://ping.fm/E4dCe Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker – newyorker.com – Ken Auletta [...]
What I’m reading and finding for April 27th 2011 through April 28th 2011: From Twitter – RT @sdtips Live on http://j.mp/zo6r4 @ 10a London time. 2a (PST), 5am (EDT), 10a (London), 11a (CEST), 2 30 (IST)… Greplin: 1.5 Billion Documents Indexed, Six Engineers – techcrunch.com – Michael Arrington Late last year we first mentioned Y [...]
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 13th 2010 Obama Is Hiring a Twitterer – Digits – WSJ – blogs.wsj.com Calling all job-seekers: President Barack Obama is looking for an official Twitterer. The Democratic National Committee’s “social networks manager” job description says the position entails maintaining the President’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter [...]
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 12th 2010 From Twitter – Buzz extension for Google Chrome http://bit.ly/bL0JrZ Official Gmail Blog: Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback – gmailblog.blogspot.com Posted by Todd Jackson, Product Manager, Gmail and Google Buzz It’s been just two days since we first launched [...]
As we start August, I note that I have just completed month 2 of my Bing Challenge. I still use Bing as my primary search engine. Do I still use Google? Sure, from time to time. But I am getting nice results with Bing. This afternoon I did a search that is a good case [...]
These are my links for January 24th 2009 through January 28th 2009:
Sites that I found interesting for January 14th 2009 through January 15th 2009: Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Send & Archive – Turn on "Send & Archive" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new button in the compose form labeled just that. The button does what it says: it sends [...]
Sites that I found interesting for January 11th 2009 through January 13th 2009: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets – 30 tips to show off the new stuff in Windows 7. Must read if you are a beta tester. How make Windows 7 task bar to look like Vista – A 6 set how-to. [...]
Sites that I found interesting for November 11th 2008 Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread – Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors. That simple act, multiplied across millions of keyboards in homes around the country, has [...]