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.
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.
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 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.
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!
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:
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…
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.
Face.Com have today launched Photo Tagger to the public. Like Picasa and iPhoto, it automates face tagging of photos. Facebook users can use Photo Tagger to automatically tag their photos, using facial recognition software to tag all of the photos in an album.
When you select an album, it groups together faces and suggests tags for them. It also constantly monitors new photos you add with its Face Alerts system, alerting you when it detects new, untagged photos of you or your friends.
Personally, I am a big fan of this feature in Picasa, and can’t wait to try Photo Tagger out on Facebook.
