http://activewin.com/reviews/previews/windows7/
This one is from ActiveWin, as linked by Paul Thurrott ( http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/10/28/live-from-pdc-2008-day-2.aspx ). There will be a lot of information about 7 coming out as a result of PDC, not to mention the buzz on "Azure" - Microsoft's final name for it's cloud computing platform, which sounds like it is transforming into just stuffing all of Microsoft's server products and standard api's into datacenters and letting you rent them. I found Mesh, a completely new paradigm for them, more interesting frankly.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Evernote offers API
http://blog.evernote.com/2008/10/01/evernote-launches-api/http://www.evernote.com/about/developer/
Driven by what I would call a competitive imperative ("everybody's doing it"), Evernote has opened up it's online note-taking platform to programmatic access. This is great news, and they are to be lauded for doing it. I will be looking at it closely, though I am still put off by the lack of encryption on the server-side data (you can keep data client-side, and use a 3rd party tool to encrypt that). I am a big proponent of Evernote, have followed their progress for years, done some beta-testing, and depended on their product every day for my "brain-dump".
Driven by what I would call a competitive imperative ("everybody's doing it"), Evernote has opened up it's online note-taking platform to programmatic access. This is great news, and they are to be lauded for doing it. I will be looking at it closely, though I am still put off by the lack of encryption on the server-side data (you can keep data client-side, and use a 3rd party tool to encrypt that). I am a big proponent of Evernote, have followed their progress for years, done some beta-testing, and depended on their product every day for my "brain-dump".
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
View multiple Gmail accounts simultaneously in Chrome
I don't normally have multiple Gmail windows open. I have two accounts, but I use one for companies and one for friends, and the first filters into the second. However the terms of service say that you need to check your mail every so often. I take that to mean in the browser, just to be safe. Therefore once a month I like to have every Gmail account in my family get logged into once. The rest of the time they are accessed via Pop, or Imap.
I know this is not possible in Internet Explorer. There are add-ons for Firefox, but that did not appeal to me. I thought perhaps some of the new features in Chrome might present an opportunity to make this happen finally. So I googled "multiple gmail account chrome" etc. Most of the articles I read were not very encouraging. So I wanted to report that this works fine, with some initial setup required.
My most-used reference was:
http://www.labnol.org/software/create-family-profiles-in-google-chrome/4394/
What I did was first set up a new profile for each account I needed to check, which amounts to first cleaning out your default profile, then copying the profile folder to some location and duplicating it for each account, with a unique folder name. Then I created a shortcut for each profile. Then I launched Chrome via the Shortcut, logged into the particular Google account, saved the password, bookmarked Gmail, and then created an application shortcut for it.
Once that initial process is done, all I have to do to launch and view these multiple Gmail accounts at the same time, is to launch the application shortcuts. Very cool!
I know this is not possible in Internet Explorer. There are add-ons for Firefox, but that did not appeal to me. I thought perhaps some of the new features in Chrome might present an opportunity to make this happen finally. So I googled "multiple gmail account chrome" etc. Most of the articles I read were not very encouraging. So I wanted to report that this works fine, with some initial setup required.
My most-used reference was:
http://www.labnol.org/software/create-family-profiles-in-google-chrome/4394/
What I did was first set up a new profile for each account I needed to check, which amounts to first cleaning out your default profile, then copying the profile folder to some location and duplicating it for each account, with a unique folder name. Then I created a shortcut for each profile. Then I launched Chrome via the Shortcut, logged into the particular Google account, saved the password, bookmarked Gmail, and then created an application shortcut for it.
Once that initial process is done, all I have to do to launch and view these multiple Gmail accounts at the same time, is to launch the application shortcuts. Very cool!
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