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Artificially Limit Options to Make Choosing Pain Free [Shopping] - http://lifehacker.com/5397810...
Being a veggie quite helps in restaurants :)
- Eitan Burcat
Information Graphics Vinyl Stickers for the Home - http://infosthetics.com/archive...
Great idea! I'd have some for workplaces, with directions to keep the air-conditioner temperature, close the lights, start the alarm, start conference calls. Using the coffee machine. Also: Instructions for separating food when throwing away. Loved it.
- Eitan Burcat
Waze Generates and Reports and Real-Time Traffic Data on Your Phone [Downloads] - http://lifehacker.com/5360685...
Nice to see an Israeli app going global, way to go!
- Eitan Burcat
Waze Generates and Reports and Real-Time Traffic Data on Your Phone [Downloads] - http://lifehacker.com/5360685...
Nice to see an Israeli app going global, way to go!
- Eitan Burcat
Web application testing system - http://seleniumhq.org/
A great web application automation tool
- Eitan Burcat
The App Store Hype Gets A Dose Of Reality - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
For a long time I didn't understand why people thought that iPhone application developers get lots of money. Well,... They don't. 20,000,000 phones aren't that much after all,... And people do buy only the top ones anyway...
- Eitan Burcat
Get Public Data Graphs from Google Searches [Data] - http://lifehacker.com/5232556...
Only works from a US proxy...
- Eitan Burcat
Taskfox Will Bring Ubiquity to a Future Firefox Release [Firefox] - http://lifehacker.com/5185850...
Very nice! Better integration than I imagined :)
- Eitan Burcat
what's the best way to upload 500mb to amazon s3? My comcast connection can't handle it.
Alex Haar liked this
Bring it on a external disk to work, and upload from there :)
- Bret Taylor
From the FriendFeed office.
- Amit Patel
With CloudFront, but in reverse?
- Eitan Burcat
FedEx your disk to Seattle.
- Bill Strathearn
Wow, I never knew Pennsylvania had a downtown!
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
In case anyone is confused: PA == "Palo Alto, CA". Comcast == "slow internet uploads"
- Bill Strathearn
Pennsylvania does (Walnut Street), Palo Alto not so much. Unless you count that nondescript suburban area with the nondescript A9 office building?
- j1m
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Offline Gmail - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
jojoorc, Nicholas James, Sean Kelly and 104 other people liked this
"Today we're starting to roll out an experimental feature in Gmail Labs that should help fill in those gaps: offline Gmail. So even if you're offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like you're used to."
- Bret Taylor
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This always irritates me a lot: "We're making offline Gmail available to everyone who uses Gmail in US or UK English over the next couple of days, so if you don't see it under the Labs tab yet, it should be there soon." You guys need to change your push process so things are available when they are announced or at a predictable time so I don't need to keep checking back for 48 hours...
- Bret Taylor
Long time coming! Sweet.
- Shawn Farner
Woo-hoo! Way cool. But yeah, very disappointing to not have it *right now*.
- Richard Chen
@Bret are you suggesting that they roll it out silently, then tell people about it, then switch the feature on for everybody all at once?
- Adewale Oshineye
Let's see if Bret still says that once there are 100 gazillion FriendFeed users each with 100 gazillion gigabytes of data. ; )
- DeWitt Clinton
Yes, more or less. (I think it should be available "imminently" or announced after it is actually available - that is what we did for most consumer products at Google). It is really weird to tell your users a feature has "launched" when it is not available to them, and there is no predictable path or timeline to use it. It seems like one could get the feature-turning-on process down below 30 mins or so.
- Bret Taylor
DeWitt: I am not saying it is easy, just saying it is worthwhile.
- Bret Taylor
I'm going to guess -- with no inside knowledge -- that flipping the bit on the accounts is easy compared with the scaling problem of having those millions of people all downloading all of their email at exactly the same time. But I could be wrong.
- DeWitt Clinton
But more to the point: holy crap, offline gmail launched!
- DeWitt Clinton
Has Google Reader always had offline support as well? Just noticed the little green online/offline toggle in the upper right menu...
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken: yah, Reader launched with Offline support the day we launched Gears at the fist Google developer conference a year and a half ago.
- Bret Taylor
Bret: Nice. I completely missed that. Just installed Gears earlier today to use RTM offline, next thing you know... heh.
- Ken Sheppardson
Agree with letting users know after it is available... I was frustrated when I couldn't get to the skins feature and everyone was talking about it. I think this it is some sort of a miracle that this feature actually launched. Good for GMail :)
- Bindu Reddy
arf... still waiting for it in my labs.
- Justin Hart
WARNING: Anyone with access to your computer will be able to read your offline emails, due to the lack of encryption in Gears databases
- lautaro
lautaro, true but presumably you should put some kind of protection on your computer in general, lest someone be able to read/delete all the files on your computer. Only use Offline Gmail on computers you can secure or in trusted environments. Treat it like files on your computer.
- Kevin Fox
I has it! Woo!!
- Nick Humphries
Everyone should have it; if you don't, reload Gmail and it should appear. (That's generally true of everything we do for Labs, fwiw. The fact that you have to turn it on manually counts as a 'slow rollout'.)
- Ryan Anderson
@Ryan Anderson Actually not the case. Neither refreshing nor logging out and logging back in again brings the offline feature into my labs choices.
- Ben Greenberg
@Ben, sorry, I appear to have misread some mail earlier today, ignore me.
- Ryan Anderson
@bret -- it's tough to manage a large number of users enabling offline simultaneously, each downloading thousands of messages/attachments on initial sync. We could do as you suggest, and only announce the feature after the rollout was complete, but that's problematic too (it still wouldn't do much to stagger the initial load, plus the press would break the news before we did, which is confusing for users...). Any ideas? :-)
- Todd Jackson
@todd Boarding a long flight at 2pm EST tomorrow and hoping I get the tab to go offline before then. Hint... hint.... :)
- Christopher Sacca
Todd: Re "Any ideas", absolutely... let users know when they can expect to have the functionality enabled on their account. You could either use the Cable Installer Method ("sometime between 8AM and Noon on Tuesday"), or the Rolling Blackout Method ("you're in block 4. We're on block 2 right now"), Alphabetical Order ("you're an M, we're on E")... Time Zones... State... whatever...
- Ken Sheppardson
Also, maybe you could find out how many users actually use the Labs features and how frequently they use Gmail. These users would be the most likely to appreciate the new features. For instance, my roomate has the new feature and didn't even know about it, so he wouldn't have missed it. (I guess it's hard to determine who reads the Google Blog though :P)
- Brandon Titus
What you *could* roll out to everbody is a little button in Gmail Labs so that a user could indicate they've heard about the feature and would like to be added to a queue such that if you explicitly ask to use the feature, it moves you up to the head of the line... or the tail of the list of other people who've specifically requested the feature.
- Ken Sheppardson
I agree with Ken on this. I feel like people who aren't really interested get the feature first and this irritates me.
- Brandon Titus
Anyone have any guesses as to how this will work if you have multiple Gmail accounts being used on a single computer? Or if I have a Gmail account and an App account that I’d like to have both run offline on the same computer?
- Chris Stevenson
Good question Chris. Looks like there is a bug with using it with multiple accounts anyway (not exactly what you were looking for, but interesting. http://groups.google.com/group...
- Brandon Titus
Can't wait for it to work outside of the US & UK...
- Eitan Burcat
Can't wait for it to actually get to my account...another friend of mine just got it. Too bad he uses Mail to manage his Gmail account instead of actually using the web interface. There needs to be a way to opt-in to get priority position on the role out.
- Brandon Titus
Instead of these "offline web apps" I rather use real desktop apps, thank you...
- Jemm
@Brandon Titus - Thanks for the link! Reads like I should avoid this if I have more than one account used on a computer to be safe.
- Chris Stevenson
Options to limit the time for which messages are downloaded, the disk space used, and ESPECIALLY TO NOT DOWNLOAD LARGE ATTACHMENTS would be a plus. 500+ attachments were downloaded from my gmail account. No options to avoid it. http://tinyurl.com/t3hsUk
- iSteeve
what's the difference between gmail off-line with thunderbird/outlook? I prefer thunderbird, which works both offiline and online.
- xiawinter
Take a bow Gmail. You have done a wonderful job. It was delayed but after using I know why it was delayed. :-)
- Sidharth Dassani
Gmail Offline status after 12h of synch: "Finished downloading messages, 1463 attachments still to be downloaded" & 1.53GB less on my HD :(
- Xavier Donat
This is a great addition to Gmail. I've been waiting for this for a while.
- Nicholas James
Yogi – confessions of a MS Silverlight fan - http://blog.headup.com/2009...
Nathan Zeldes and Eitan Burcat liked this
"the next thing I knew I was sitting in front of a keyboard fiddling with Silverlight." - Funny man,... I can sooo imagine this moment :P
- Eitan Burcat
Great post Yogi
- Tal Keinan
לבנות את העולם מחדש מגובה הקרקע, החברה האזרחית מצמיחה שינוי עולם
מאת: פול הוקן - http://cafe.themarker.com/view...
אופטימיות קוסמית
- Eitan Burcat
תגידו, גם אתם התחלתם לקבל הודעות שגיעה מגימייל בכל פעם שאתם פותחים אותו?
שלי עובד סבבה
- Yoav Aviram
אם תכתוב את זה באנגלית, הם יוכלו טיפה יותר טוב לשים לזה לב... לדעתי גם הם מנטרים את טוויטר כדי להבין אם יש תקלות :)
- Eitan Burcat
A new Ubiquity mashup with headup - http://digg.com/softwar...
Rey Tavor liked this
"Haha, I've just used ubiquity to headup Coldplay. Listening to Viva La Vida while writing this... (Through headup, of course...). Dugg this story with Ubiquity also... This is how the Internet was meant to work :)"
- Eitan Burcat
A new Ubiquity mashup with headup - http://digg.com/softwar...
"Just to be clear, I'm a SemantiNet employee..."
- Eitan Burcat
Yahoo Plans to Launch a Mail App Platform - http://gigaom.com/2008...
Urbansheep, VC Freak and Aaron Krug liked this
I gave up using Yahoo mail a few years back.
- Ian May
I left them just because they didn't let me out. And GMail looked a bit better...
- Eitan Burcat
I left Yahoo Mail because its spam system is CRAP. Totally worthless.
- Clay Newton
@Clay I agree 100%
- Ian May
Google and Facebook Both Launch Friend Connect [Online Identity] - http://lifehacker.com/5102106...
Eran! You're in this video! How cool is that??
- Eitan Burcat
Goddman' those 15 minutes of fame was too quickly....arghhhhhhhh
- Eran Lahav
Let Me Google That For You - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Udschal Imanov, Eitan Burcat, Kirb and 14 other people liked this
omg, i don't like it, i love it! daily i get people asking me questions that i answer with a google query... can't wait to use this haha
- Dan Bedford
I need a ubiquity script for this :)
- Eitan Burcat
Pop!Tech 2008 - Malcolm Gladwell - http://www.poptech.com/popcast...
How well do we capitalize our human potential? A nice preview to "outliers".
- Eitan Burcat
מה מתבשל? - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Asa - you'd be a great TV host :)
- Eitan Burcat
re 42Tags - all is saved in one directory for easy backup. I use Mozy.com to backup all my important files off-site. Recommended.
- Eitan Burcat
and of course - license is free for friends, just let me know if you want one...
- Eitan Burcat
What do you think of Microsoft BizSpark program?
Would love to hear about this one... Let me know how your research went...
- Eitan Burcat
Look at his t-shirt. - http://www.ynet.co.il/Ext...
Nadav Samet, Eitan Burcat, yuval kesten and Eran Lahav liked this
this picture was taken in court, while he was expressing remorse for his crimes.
- Tal Keinan
Huge.
- Eran Lahav
One of the best I saw this year :)
- Eitan Burcat
I liked this one better: http://www.ynet.co.il/Ext...
- Nadav Samet
Ynet "גם בצרפת ב-68' אמרו שלעולם לא יהיה מרד" - מעורבות - http://www.ynet.co.il/article...
Been there on this roof :) Funny it got to YNET's first page.
- Eitan Burcat
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HeadUp - enchancing web content from FriendFeed etc. - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Tal Keinan, Roney Smith, Baard @ Pixum and 9 other people liked this
There's a limited time invite code: RWWCODE
- CannonGod
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as soon as i found out i had to then install silverlight i thought too much headache. Will be interested in hearing what people have to say about it though
- Zee.
Silverlight was the exit signal for me.. would like to hear what it's about too
- embee
ew silverlight.
- mjc
Silverlight shouldn't scare you, it's a piece-of-cake install. If you've got Adobe air (or whatever it's called, can't remember), Silverlight is head over heels above that.
- Craig Eddy
like MS promises, Silverlight usually takes under 10 seconds to install
- Tal Muskal
anything browser-based yet dynamic enough to require silverlight or flash or air makes me upset. plugins are not the way to develop anything for the web and they are not the way to develop great software - desktop apps would have more features, be faster to develop and faster performing, as well as actually paying attention to usability - which was ignored with flash and now probably will continue to be now that google spiders it
- mjc
Just installed...I had to go back to Flock (from Chrome) but worth that switch to try this. It's a little creepy to be able to get this much insight into people so quickly, but it works as-advertised. UPDATE: wow, the "Discover with headup" feature is amazing...highlight a word and it finds all kinds of related content.
- Craig Eddy
I signed up and will report back after I confirm my membership.
- Russellreno
"Headup is a browser extension that cross-references data from all your social networks, including Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, Last.fm, Digg, and FriendFeed. Headup integrates directly into these sites and allows you to quickly get more information about your friends' activities on other networks"- Dosent FF do this already? Albiet on a webpage instead of a toolbar???
- Roberto Bonini
The video says it all... http://www.headup.com/video...
- Eitan Burcat
I admit this probably didn't need to use SilverLight to work. HeadUp works in a similar way to Apture (http://www.apture.com/) - sure you needed to install the Javascript in the webpage html, but it would run on anything and provide the same rich media :¬\
- CannonGod
☟ No, I don't wish to download Silverlight to make this browser extension to work. Will wait for alternatives. Maybe I should give MashLogic a shot.
- Jonathan Kong
More invite code: CNETINV [via http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...]
- LouCypher
I find it annoying that headup only allows passwords to be of 6 to 10 characters in length. Myspace does the same thing, can I not have a password that's so short?
- Andrew Trinh
Andrew Trinh: you are absolutely right, will be fixed...
- Tal Muskal
Headup: Smarter Connections Across Your Social Networks (400 Invites) - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
"Semantinet today announced the launch of its first product, headup.com. Headup is a browser extension that cross-references data from all your social networks, including Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, Last.fm, Digg, and FriendFeed. Headup integrates directly into these sites and allows you to quickly get more information about your friends' activities on other networks. The extension only works in Firefox and is based on Silverlight 2, which Microsoft just released this week."
- Kol Tregaskes
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Has anyone had a quick look at this?
- Kol Tregaskes
taking a look now, though it doesn't seem like i'll be using it much. But then I thought that about Friendfeed too!
- Rahul Das
(I'm a developer @ semantinet) - we'd Love to hear your thoughts about our product...
- Eitan Burcat
Headup! Information Incoming! - http://altsearchengines.com/2008...
Tal Muskal, Rey Tavor and Eitan Burcat liked this
Cool, my profile is in here :)
- Eitan Burcat
Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity - http://labs.mozilla.com/2008...
This thing totally rock!
- Eitan Burcat
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YouGetSignal.com - A collection of uncomplicated, powerful network tools - http://www.yougetsignal.com/
A collection of uncomplicated, powerful network tools.
- Eitan Burcat
How much time do you invest in a weekly GTD review, if at all?
besides for the regular reviews, I spend about 1 hour every friday afternoon to fully review all my tasks work related. On a personal level, I tend to spend about 30 to 45 minutes for a full review on sundays.
- Marcel van der Laan
My system keeps the cruft away throughout the week so that I only spend maybe 30 minutes on sundays for a full review.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
30 minutes on Sunday (personal) and Friday (work). Once in a month I try to have a longer WR for going through my higher level stuff.
- Jeroen Sangers
i try to keep it down at around 30 min - but often get up around 45 min
- Peter Efland
An hour or two once a week (Sunday most of the time) is spent. I review and expand any actions/projects/waiting-4/someday items.
- Czar
I try to spend 1 hour towards the weekend, it usually takes me more than 2 hours... It's a kind of a vicious cycle, because knowing it is going to take 2 hours - I tend to put it off on some weeks. Which makes it longer when I finally get to it :) Maybe I should stick harder to actually doing it Every week.
- Eitan Burcat
I generally do half an hour (that is, when I'm not slacking majorly like I have been lately...), and during exam weeks and other busy times I will do an hour's review.
- Stellina
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