I missed this one, it seems Google has taken the big step of releasing Gmail to everyone without the need of an invite.
From their blog.
Gmail sign-ups are now open worldwide! No more waiting for someone to invite you—just create an account directly at www.gmail.com.
Though still in ‘beta’ I have used Gmail for a long time now with virtually no problems. If you haven’t moved your webmail across from other inferior web email apps, now is the time to do it. Gmail is quite simply excellent.
Note to self. I really should read the change logs or new feature lists for applications properly when new versions come out.
Firefox is still the best browser out there, we all know that, but some of the little features and touches that these guys add are quite simply amazing.
Everyone using Firefox 2 should know that you can drag your tabs to re-organise where they are listed from left to right which is a powerful feature in itself. From an organisational point of view though I quite often work with an Active Collab tab first, my SideJob account open next and maybe my delicious account after with whatever I am reading thereafter. Occasionally I need to move these around if I start browsing something and then get down to work which and this feature is handy and a time saver.
(I couldn’t resist, while I am on a roll I thought I’d post again….)
It would appear, and rightly so, that Google has remembered its informal corporate motto, “Don’t be evil.” – well with a little help from the blogspere at least. It seems that someone’s 20%1 turned into helping us all with tips (read prime advertising) at the top of certain search results on Google. Specifically targeting searches for software or services that Google has a competing product they handily suggested their software above the number 1 search result.
It looks as though it really is the season to be releasing a browser with the recent official release of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and the third release candidate of Firefox 2. I can’t help feeling that the much of the coverage surrounding the releases really boils down to hype with the media and blogsphere trying to build this into another browser war.A ‘war’, ‘battle’, ‘face off’ or whatever you want to label it, regardless of who is contesting , requires two fundamental factors; 2 willing contenders.
Shuttle, the much needed ‘beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel’, is slowly becoming a reality it seems though the most movement appears to be unofficially from Mark over at the Sidejob. As Khaled, one of the original designers, highlights, ‘ WordPress is a community EFFORT.‘ and Mark seems to be doing a great job of implementing it on his own install.
While still a long way from finished, you can keep track on Marks blog of his interpretation of what will become the official dashboard of Wordpress in the future. Kudos for his initiative who knows he may just be involved in implementing this long overdue overhaul of the admin panel.
