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.
There are accumulated a list of the twenty applications of more popular Twitter, with base sull' ospite that only the monthly data of the Compete Twitpic, an application that allows the users to share photos in Twitter, occupies the part superior, with 1.236.828 unique visitors in January. Tweetdeck, that finished second, with 285,864 calls per month, Twitter is an application that improve the notifications and tweets. The third place was for Digsby (with 233,472 unique visitors per month), an application that centralizes the electronic mail, instantaneous mail and social network says in a table program. With 149,812 calls, the fourth more popular application, Twitterfeed, offered by Tweet put published automatically in blog using RSS. A place for the place of Twitter, Twitterholic, is the fifth most popular one of the request, with a monthly visit of 147,164 people. Peculiarly, two of the twenty main applications - Hellotxt and Digsby, an application that allows the users to update its situation through the social networks - do not concentrate exclusively in Twitter. Recently I wrote post detailed on the reasons by which to it the news related to Twitter and usually think that there are so many developed applications as a branch of microblogging is another testimony the fact that Twitter it is not a beginning. This it is our attempt to find out what is gaining more traction. Although we think that this is a quite complete list on the base of which the lawyer chosen by the popularity, is not but a first passage to one lists that we hoped becomes with time more authentic. It considers that this methodology is only one measurement dell' aggancio, many people use the applications for iPhone and other clients of Twitter without having to visit the Web site of these services. The derivative of the traffic of the site is only for using proxy, but that the easily mensurable ones. Also to execute these places although Quantcast and the tendencies of Google, but chose to measure about to compete especially because it had all the more complete data, for small sites. Therefore the absolute numbers are without a doubt more high ones for some of these Twitter applications. If you know of Twitter additional applications that they must be including here, or if it has more ideas exceeds how to compile this list, please to leave a message in the commentaries. It is possible to also indicate that there is a great amount of data bases for the application of Twitter to end there. Here there are some we have examined close by in particular: Twitter Fan Wiki, Twitdom, Twapps, Twitstat and TwitTown and Twitter. Update: As many people are pointing out in the comments, Twhirl is not included in this list. That’s because the list is based on Compete data, and Compete measures Twhirl at under 13,000 visitors per month. As we said above, this is just the first pass at creating a list and we certainly realize Compete traffic is not a perfect way to gauge the popularity of applications. Update 2: So it looks like we owe a “mea culpa” on Twhirl, since we looked up the wrong address on Compete originally (it’s at .org not .com). Twhirl.org actually has 143,000 visitors, putting it at the #6 spot. Update 3: By popular demand, here is a list of the Top 21 Twitter Clients (According To TwitStat). Twitter Applications: Monthly unique visits (Compete): 1. Twitpic 1,236,828 2. Tweetdeck 285,864 3. Digsby 233,472 4. Twittercounter 212,200 5. Twitterfeed 149,812 6. Twitterholic 147,164 7. Twhirl 143,333 8. Twitturly 88,793 9. Twtpoll 74,154 10. Retweetist 60,051 11. Tweepler 51,304 12. Hellotxt 45,754 13. Twitdom 45,411 14. Tweetscan 44,463 15. Tweetburner 41,754 16. Tweetvisor 31,621 17. Twittervision 30,708 18. Twitterfall 29,592 19. Monitter 25,433 20. Twibs 17,168 21. Twistori 16,229 22. Twitbin 14,986
It does not matter how much Twitter love, sometimes 140 characters is not sufficient to express complex thoughts. That s a reason to see the connections to send people to Twitter blogs and other Web sites where it can find more information. The back part of a little while we have all TinyPaste place setting, a service that the species of Twitter stops defrauding to the generation of one long series of texts or connections to the photos or of video and to generate a glass URL which they are possible to be used to disclose the connection that appears in the Twitter.
Now the creators of TinyPaste are of return with a new service that allows to create an instantaneous room of chat, with a glass URL that can be used to promote the room of chat in Twitter or other sites. TinyChat is as simple as a page of configuration of its own chat of the Web could be. It is enough with clicking in a button to create a room and soon to enter the room or to copy the Link to share with others. That s almost everything what there is in him.
It can maintain a registry of chat like an envoy, text file to the direction of electronic mail or mail in line. You can even include a TinyChat room in his Web site.
There is not a pile of characteristic outposts. You cannot raise the archives a room of chat, for example. But there is TinyChat the covered bases. There are some emoticonos and they can conduct the basic battles with "/me" order. Rewritter knowledge management
The next Microsoft week will pushing out up to 5 updates to Windows 7 (to construct 7000) beta-testers to use the service of Windows. Basically, this will be a test of the process of update of Windows.
People do not observe any new characteristics or problems of insects. Microsoft will begin to send the updates of 24 of February. The users must receive a notification of which there are updates available, but they do not settle automatically. If you do not install them no, can go to the control of Windows and choose to hide the updates.
Whereas million beta-testers to follow to put Windows 7 on approval, the news arose this morning that can, in fact, already the construction of the candidate 1 of its expedition.
It is end of S.A. soon to know with certainty at this moment, but Heer ' s which we know until now. Iso configuration of Windows 7 to the loss of followers in the river 7022.Winmain.090115-of 1850, that seems to have a date 15 of January 2009 4:50 p.m. As a result of this loss, the screen captures have appeared of another configuration: 7032.0.winmain.090129-1812 (the 29.6 in January: 12pm).
This morning, Softpedia has indicated that the most recent loss has an interesting name to register itself: 7048.winmain_win7rc1.090211-1625. Although ' important s that the configuration completed seven days, the most significant change is the introduction of rc1 name. These three personages mediate before Windows 7 is a program? Wzor.net - the same place that has thrown screen captures of 14 - has already informed into which Microsoft provides a version of April of 2009 for RC1. If ' ready s shortly, predicts good things forMicrosoft, that, without a doubt, the ships that Windows 7 before the season of celebrations in 2009.
