Back in days - OK, 2007 - there was a po 'of OS X spiffy Facebook app called Sync that pulled down your friends' contact info and added to the Address Book on your Mac This was particularly brilliant, if you are used iChat, screen names because it would be imported so you can chat with most of your friends before there was a Facebook Facebook Chat. Facebook Sync but it proved to be too good to be true when Facebook decided that their terms of service violation. Address Book Sync partially fills the void, allowing you to add your bulk-FB contacts to Address Book - less contact information.
What is good if you can not synchronize screennames and email addresses? Well, you can still synchronize photos and birthdays, and at least you have a Facebook phone book entry for each contact. Also, if you have the photos you have in your Address Book to one of your friends, you can uncheck a box to have Address Book Sync leave alone. If your phone can sync contacts with Address Book, this is also a quick way to get pictures of people displayed when calling. Address Book Sync works brilliantly and does not violate the terms of service. Now if I could understand only one way to add contact information for all these new entries ...
Bloggers are always looking for ways to monetize their content. Many of us love to blog for the art form, but many of us also love to be able to understand how to obtain a return on investment of our time.
Even if the content is king, making money requires a large readership and targeted ads or sponsors. You can now turn Triond to do everything, but the creation of content for you. So, even if you are gainfully employed, and especially if you're not, the new Triond publisher and creator of content network could be the answer to your blog for cash prayers.
Triond is a simple and easy to use site that offers all the content creators the opportunity to earn ad revenue for their work. Creative writing or creating a kind of original articles, photos, video and audio clips and post a Triond. Triond then distributes the content through their network of niche publishers, content creators and earn 50% of ad revenue - paid monthly via Paypal, check, or Western Union.
Triond includes how to connect with other creative types using the site, track statistics for your articles and get a panoramic gain. You can also use the profile of a portfolio, install a toolbar for Firefox, Twitter, and add your login credentials are for Triond auto-Tweet on your behalf with links to published pieces.
Although we are not arguing that you chuck your blog, we think Triond offers all the bloggers and content creators an interesting way to explore when it comes to monetize their work. Definitely check it out for yourself and tell us what you think in comments.
It seems that Digg is working on a similar StumbleUpon toolbar that allows users of Digg, bury or find stories, while you browse the network. Veronica Belmont first saw a spotted a screenshottoolbar to Flickr, and it seems that people from TechCrunch managed some additional information .
If the information is correct, here's how it works. Users will see a toolbar in the toolbar popup on their screens. The toolbar is displayed in an I-frame, which means that your browser is not specific and it is possible to leave at any time by pressing X.
When you visit the pages that have already been submitted to Digg, you'll see the number of votes received. Or you can send the current page. You can also view or bury stories stories.
The toolbar also create a shortened URL for any page you're visiting, from digg.com ... You can share this shortened URL via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook or other services in the same way you would TinyURL. Digg Google Toolbar is not available to the public at this point. And for all we know, this could be just a false alarm. But it seems certain that something could Digg and / or should offer in the future.
Google Street View allows you to see photographs of the city and its environs taken by cameras connected to the Google vehicles going along the main streets of the city in the United States and other countries like Japan, Australia and Spain. And now you can also find photos taken by amateur photographers, too. In this case, it'sa good thing, because the amateur photos are often of better quality and more interesting composition. This is what happens when a man takes a picture, rather than letting a computer to it.
Google is using Geotagged photos provided by Panoramio. The Company also some of these photos available in other applications like Google Earth. If you are displaying a location in the street you have an image, an icon in the upper right of the screen that lets you know that the images are available for users. Clicking on a series of images you can scroll through the popup. Just click the button to the right, which should now be classified as Street View, to return to normal display.
This has probably been my #1 Gmail pet peeve since I started using the service 4 or 5 years ago, and now it has finally been addressed: the ability to upload multiple attachments at once, rather than one-by-one. Additionally, when you attach files, you’ll now get a progress bar indicating how long until the file is uploaded and ready to be sent. Now, Gmail essentially works like any other service on the Web that lets you upload files. When you click “attach a file” when composing an email, you can browse your computer and select multiple files by holding down the CTRL key on Windows machines, or Cmd on Mac. Once you’re finished, Gmail starts uploading and keeps you posted on the upload status.
It’s somewhat baffling that this feature took so long, while Gmail pushed things like beer goggles for email instead. But Google’s new found focus on adding utility to Gmail makes us happy, as in recent weeks we’ve also seen the addition of offline support and easier options for moving and archiving messages.
Name:DeskAway Quick Pitch: DeskAway is a subscription-based on-demand project collaboration service for small businesses & teams. Genius Idea: Online project management is big business. The space includes big fish like Basecamp and flashier newbies like Collab, with a myriad of options in between. Most of these tools make it easier to manage tasks, share files, and track milestones. Very few of them, however, actually work in corporate environments where senior staff just want a high level overview of the bottom line. DeskAway, however, provides a convenient all-in-one online project management and collaboration environment that anyone can use, regardless of tech savvy, and bosses will love. DeskAway’s feature set is exhaustive, but suffice to say it can definitely hold its own against more well-known competitors, because it provides the project creation, task and resource management, and milestone-related features you love with a simple to use interface and boss-friendly reporting options. Not only can admin users assign known issues with priority levels to team members, but all tasks and issues can be time tracked, so project progress reports come complete with a comprehensive overview of overdue, completed, archived, and in-progress projects that you can print out or share online with management. DeskAway does a number of things really well, including file management and document creation. Instead of writeboards that use a version of wiki mark-up language, they have docs with a rich-text editor so they function just like typical word processing documents. Docs also come with templates, and support sharing, multi-party collaboration, auto-saving, revision tracking, and comments. We’ve barely scratched the service when it comes to DiskAway, but we certainly think it’s a viable alternative to other project management options. The online application can be used free of charge, but larger teams and companies will want to upgrade to subscription based plans that start at $10/mo and go to $99/mo for more features, storage, and unlimited projects.
Microsoft continues to plug away at Windows 7, patch holes, fix bugs, and respond to a flood of feedback from beta testers. Today the team blog Engineering Windows 7 has developed a list that clarifies some of the changes made since the release of public beta.
The list includes a wide range of changes, including everything from cosmetics to touch the user interface, touchscreen interface enhancements, including support for improved peripheral Step by Microsoft partners.
Some interesting changes include:
Taskbar enhancements: the amount of real estate you'll have available for pinning programs has ben increased, and a 1280x1024 display will now accomodate up to 20 large icons - four more than in the beta. Taskbar icons also retain their glow color when you mouse over a thumbnail preview (in the beta, the glow disappears as soon as you mouse out).
Windows key + # tweak: apart from simply launching your first ten pinned apps with win + location #, a couple new tricks have been added. Pressing the key for an app that is running will bring it o the front, and you can hold win and tap its number repeatedly to tab through all of that program's currently open windows.
Improved multi-touch keyboard: if you've used the Windows on-screen keyboard before, you know how the special function keys lock when pressed once. That was a little confusing to users with a touch interface - the expectation was for keys to function exactly as they do on a normal keyboard (i.e. shift must be held down), so the OSK was changed to behave more like a real keyboard.
Windows Media Player overhaul: a lot of negative comments about the beta were aimed squarely at WMP12. Among the changes: Media Player will no longer display files it doesn't know how to play (like Apple's lossless m4a) in the library. Support has been added for the .MOV format used commonly in many digital cameras and camcorders, and device interaction has been tweaked to be less obtrusive. Improvements have been made to internet radio streaming performance and the Now Playing view has received some much-needed TLC.
Performance enhancements: by tracking user-generated data, Microsoft has been keeping tabs on things like how long it takes the start menu to open. The blog post points to 50-100ms as the target time for the menu to display. In the beta, the goal was met85% of the time - recent builds have pushed that to 92%.
Changes to libraries: FAT32 drives were not supported in Windows 7 beta libraries, but that has been corrected. Windows Explorer's header has been reworked to improve and clarify library navigation. The Windows + E shortcut has also been reverted to its pre-7 state and launches Computer instead of Libraries in Explorer. Create and Add to Library commands have been moved to the Explorer command bar to address concerns over posible data loss and confusion with the beta's drag-and-drop options.
Jumplists and pinning: files can now be pinned to an application regardless of whether or not it's the registered handler for that type. For example, if WMP12 is handling all your media defaults, you can still pin an MP3 file to EvilPlayer if you want. In order to prevent masive jumplists - like Explorer with its frequent access display - a maximum of 10 items are now shown, though that number can be tweaked if you like.
In recent months, Google has made several moves to increase its advertising revenues in some sectors (furniture, pictures), and cut that are not working as press and radio. Today, one of the most popular Google property outside of the research is also taking the monetization train - Google News.
The ads are displayed when searching for news about a specific topic. For example, the search for "Apple" and you get ads Apple Online Store, search for "JetBlue" and you get a series of ads for online ticket vendors. Like all Google products, ads can be purchased through an AdWords account.
Currently, the ads appear to be text only, even if Google refers to some other formats in a blog post. The company writes: "In recent months we have experimented with a variety of different formats, such as overlay ads embedded video from partners such as the AP."
Google has long John Battelle Watch believes that this measure "a little" dust football ", which Google does not mention anything about sharing revenue with content providers that seed aggregator. I'm not so sure it is. Like Digg it, Google News only the title of aggregates and fragments, with links that drive traffic to publishers. On the other hand, if he is putting ads in Google Reader, in which the full text of stories is available, then it could have a great tumult of the publishing community.
You already can concern the activity of YouTubeto your flow of the activity in social networks like Facebookand FriendFeed, but now the site of shared video is extending its API for all the developers the access to these data.
The API includes the extension of the activities favoriting like YouTube, uploading and to comment the video, the company hopes that it leads to an ecosystem of external applications, that include " the integration of the clear social agregador of feeding/network with applications of notification, to see novels of data. " In post in blog, the company notes that the privacy configuration will be stored in external applications, reason why is a video raised friendly-not to only find its way towards the public in third.
YouTube seems a little behind schedule to this party - it seems interesting to know video through other means, different from which to send something, the flows of activities Friendfeed or Facebook, YouTube visits.
These notifications when people you subscribe to push or to raise a video animate definitively valuable for million people and there am saying, in real time is safe vederemo quickly several applications that take advantage of the API to do against this necessity.
Safari 4 marks to a drastic change in the design of the user interface of Apple ' s. navigator In the version of Mackintosh, the good news is chromium-like " eyelashes of arriba" and also the dichromate benefit of potassium-like characteristic of the highest places, but some things changed too small. A new characteristic of Autocompletar was added to the URL of the Google bar and suggest is added to the bar search.
The worse one of all, in my opinion, obvious, the fence pursuit the progress of the load of the page of the blue bar in the bar of direction URL has gone away.
If this is too much so that you take immediately and wishes that the fastest yield and the best fulfillment of the norms without no type of IU rise, are possible that it wishes to throw a look to this list of hidden preferences done by Caius Durling. Through the terminal, it can change everything what I have said previously to the sense of the new one was in safari 3. still wants that the eyelashes in the part inferior? You have obtained. And he releases life to the load bar!
Apple has sent a public beta of Safari 4, the last version of its navigating Web for OS X and Windows. The new navigator is fast, attractive and to be honest, much like chromium of Google feels. Both navigators use the motor of the representation of WebKit, so geralmente where a page in a navigator can be seen who correctly would have to do another one (although the page nontransference of the unloading of Safari 4, the work not correctly in chromium of Google - that he had to cook until Firefox so that the connection of the most recent satellites appears
Update: He sees himself in the page of the newest satellites at the moment works in chromium). Safari and now also generates automatically estimations miniature of the pages that visits with more frequency, like the chromium makes Google.
Clearly, Google and Apple have retired of the function from the outside, Opera has been a characteristic of the speed of the wheels long before to somebody. But Safari 4 ' characteristic of new supreme places s of petroleum is pretty. When beginning the navigator I greet with the miniatures for the popular Web site to you Gradica Wikipedia and Google Maps.
As he is used Safari navigator will detect Web site that you visit MOS frequently and to add to the list. There is also a little s picture search of history in the corner right inferior of the screen. Beginning to write an application and safari in car to realise a complete file search. But, unlike chromium or Firefox that shows the results in locationbar, safari, will abrirá a window of cover flow and the forecasts show to each Web site that contains the term search.
Like the chromium of Google, navigator Safari 4 to move cards in the part superior of the window and have one more a direction more astute than it maintains the moment in that a speech to the machine to the Web wrote. For example, once " IT SEES is www.downloadsquad.com once to write writing, the next time that begins escritura" in the machine, safari, I am going to fill the rest. Safari also has the extension of the complete page that ' so popular s with the children and now is in chromium of Google, which leaves only a zoom lens on the text. The version for Windows of Safari 4 also supports the sources of Windows, bars of title and opposite birthplace.
Like with the majority of products of Apple, if you are installing the version that Windows, and ll it wants to have well-taken care of during the installation process. If it does not deactivate all the options, it is possible to be concluded the installation of several other companies of services public, as well as the navigating Web.
Gmail is down, like you you can see in a) that test by you same or b) to listen the tortured cries on Twitter. He is funny and something ironic to see people when Twitter one of the services of Google is as well down: generally, it is the other way around.
The test of open Gmail at the moment will cause " error of servant 502: The servant found an error temporary and solicitud." has not been able to complete his; The aid to other products of Google, like the investigation, the reader, etc., is working well.
There is no official word from Google on the failure still. As always, it seems difficult to me, on the account of Gmail and all the fault one extends affect my work and that thinks Google is not bulletproof as the majority of people usually thinks that it is.
*Update: Google has posted a short note about the outage on their support page: “We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a number of users. This problem occurred at approximately 1:30AM Pacific Time. We’re working hard to resolve this problem and will post updates as we have them. We apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused.” *Update #2: Gmail is now back up for me and many other users. Still no word about it on Gmail’s official blog.
What we hoped of the two marks will be more successful mixture of traditional and the social mass media, the Cnn and Facebook are regulated by one second film in view of the success of their association in the effluents of the tension during the presidential inauguration.
At night of Tuesday, the direction of the Congress will be president Obama live streaming of the Cnn, in direct accompanied by updates of Facebook: the direction of Obama discussing with its friendly or to observe all the updates provided by the spectators of Facebook. The users of Facebook picture RSVP for the event here.
This new tendency of Facebook, with continuous flow live through Facebook Facebook to connect itself, is to attack an express: the time of the writing, clips of the candidates can be seen the Oscar with Facebook to chatear (although apparently not the flow of the tension) on the site of Jaman videos. Rewritter knowledge management
The abundance of the existing options for the strange time that wishes to block a page exactly Web as see you it.BackupURL is interesting a new option - they think that it is a machine at the request of Wayback.
You only must copy and stick a direction URL and presses the support key and a registry connection is generated for you. For example, the TSN page arrives - its content, probably changed when it visits the the original link connection, but the BackupURL snapshot perfectly is conserved.
A certain limitation exists. It would not have to come, since some elements surprise including video Flash and will not be blocked. Nevertheless, it is a BackupURL practice to block content pages that it changes frequently.
There is not much information in the site still, so that we did not recommend the use of BackupURL for the file of something fundamental. At least not until it provides some details to us as the duration of its snapshots stays. Rewritter knowledge management
It began with the inauguration of Obama and continued with live char it on the games with famous players of the NBA, but the constant flow of chat live with Live Facebook is an increasing tendency. During the morning prizes at night, the high Jaman place of video and the cinema will be a Jaman will offer a live stream with Facebook chat: You can live comment on the event just by your friendly, or absolutely. And, by all means, its commentary has been published like an update of Facebook state, thanks to Facebook that is connected. It is hour to float in the passive consumption of mass media and hello to live interactive the DC?
Ars Technica is the 10 of April diverse sources inform of which they are now indicating a probable configuration of the Release Candidate de Windows 7, that becomes public - available. Although we cannot testify that the probability that this happens… that is happening then, is also indicating that to the development equipment ' s progresses is confirmed like the way for that date, reason why ' ll to have to hope only macerated with the breathing to see if unicornio (the term for the operating system) and soon appears or not.
Windows 7 beta version has a pile of characteristics to do that the operating system easier to use and visually more attractive for its predecessors. Nons the new bar of tasks, the capacity to make windows transparent of high priority and to see what ' s in the writing-desk and, in addition, the capacity to work either in oldest or the more slow of hardware. But you know what another thing that Microsoft has including in Windows 7 beta? Games.
In fact, Microsoft is the packaging at random a handful of games with Windows during years. Nevertheless, whereas Windows 7 includes the support like the old solitaire and minesweeper, lle Microsoft also included updated versions of three popular Windows XP games:
Internet real table, the inspectors of Internet and is branched off of the Internet.
I have let the games to play against the computer or in Internet against real people. It can select its level of skill that is compared with similar players. And if a human opponent leaves the game, the equipment will have the direction so that you can finish.
