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Remember the milk launch gadget for Google Calendar

Liam McCabe — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:54:37 +0000

Remember the milk has just launched a new gadget for the Google Calendar sidebar. With the previous version you had click a checkmark icon to bring up your tasks. However, now there is no need, the tasks are instantly displayed in the sidebar. The combination of Remember the milk and Google Calendar is certainly an appealing feature.

[Remember the milk blog]

What’s Happening?

Christiaan Hendriksen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:25:04 +0000

Twitter have stopped asking ‘What are you doing?’ and are now asking ‘What’s Happening?’ instead. Twitter say this reflects the shift in usage of tweets from Personal updates about what you’re doing to updates from websites and companies as well.

Twitter adds Retweeting to the Web!

Sam Willard — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:34:13 +0000

It seems twitter clients have evolved faster than twitter itself! However, this evening twitter has made available the new feature of “retweeting”, which has been around for desktop clients for some time. This allows any user to post what another user has said, just by clicking on the retweet button. It also adds a new function to your timeline, where you can see where users retweets came from. This was a well needed addition to the twitter website, but was delayed due to the increase in amounts of tweets it would cause.

Google Translate adds speech and real time translation

Christiaan Hendriksen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:29:52 +0000

Google have added 3 new features to their translation service today; Translate instantly, which translates your text as you type it (as you can see in our image), text to speech, which allows you to listen to any translated phrase and ‘Romanization’, allowing you to read translations in languages with non-roman characters. You can read more about the new features on the Google Blog.

[Google Blog]

Google Chrome adds Feeds

Christiaan Hendriksen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:20:43 +0000

Google Chrome currently lacks any sort of feed detection or handling, but all that is about to change. In the next chrome there will be an install extension for handing of RSS feeds, The extension “adds a button to the URL bar when a page has a feed that can be subscribed to”. When you click on the orange button, the extension previews the feed and it lets you subscribe using a feed reader. The extension is available now on the Chromium Developer Website.

[Google Operating System]

Firefox Personas Updated

Christiaan Hendriksen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:09:25 +0000

Personas has been updated to 1.4 with a set of new features that lets you discover new art, rotate through your favorites, and undo. They have released a Vimeo Video describing some of the new features. Click the image below to read more about Personas 1.4 on the Mozilla Blog and download it!

[Mozilla Blog]

Orange UK adds twitter SMS

Christiaan Hendriksen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:53:00 +0000

Orange have now joined Vodafone and o2 in offering the Twitter SMS service (Try it out texting ‘START’ to 86444, charges may apply). An extra feature that Orange have added however is the ability to send photos to twitter using MMS. This is made possible through Orange’s photo service called Snapshot. They give the following instructions on how to use it:

Take a photo on your Orange mobile phone
Select ‘Send via MMS’ or ‘Send multimedia message’
Send it to 8644

[Twitter Blog]

Google Wave adds Follow/Unfollow

Christiaan Hendriksen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:25:10 +0000

One of my favourite features of wave, is searching for waves (with : public). The only problem with this is as soon as you click on one of the public waves, your wave account becomes crowded with all the public updates. Google have added a feature to wave however, which allows you to ‘unfollow’ a wave. Google give the following advice…

Here’s how following works: When someone adds you directly to a wave, or if you contribute to a wave, you will automatically be following that wave. When you see a public wave that you would like to get updates on, you can chose to follow it by hitting the follow button in the wave panel toolbar. You can remove these waves from your inbox by hitting the “archive” button, but when there is an update they will pop back in. You can switch between following and unfollowing a wave as much and as often as you like.

[Lifehacker]

Yahoo Messanger says bye to Beta

Christiaan Hendriksen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:45:00 +0000

Yahoo Messenger has this week come out of Beta, releasing version 10. With a lot of new features, and Windows 7 support. Click here to read more at the Yahoo Messenger blog. TIP: Choose ‘Custom’ installation to avoid downloading extras such as the Yahoo Toolbar.

New Yahoo Messenger

[Yahoo Messenger Blog]

Haystack improves city and budget search

Liam McCabe — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:19:54 +0000

The guys over at 37signals have just made a subtle change to their recently launched web designers directory, Haystack. It is now easier to search via city and budget thanks to the two drop down menus at the top of the page.

[37Signals Blog]