Admittedly I’m not an Android user so I don’t keep up to speed on current releases of all the applications. One email caught my eye thought and this thread on the forum gave me a little more info. According to my information, the virtual keyboard on a program called “Qsearch” can only be used for specific functions within the application but I believe it shows the promise of future development. Obviously there is much to be said for implementation inside the the design of Android/G1 itself so it doesn’t require 3rd party add ons for a virtual keyboard but...
Simon Salt is CEO of marketing communications company the IncSlingers. He writes for www.simonsalt.com and Dad-O-Matic You use Twitter, email, IM and even your phone to stay in touch with your world. Maybe your office uses services like Yammer for internal communication. But once you are done tweeting, emailing and instant messaging, you have to do actual work. Wouldn’t it be great if you could at least use those tools to help you get some of that work done? Xpenser, developed by Trastr Inc, allows for a number of different tools to be utilized to keep track of expenses. Here...
The concept of Firefox add-ons, however silly this may sound to the experienced user, is still (and probably always will be) blurry to the majority of users. Simply put, people mostly install Firefox and browse the web. Period. They don’t want to meddle with the settings, plugins, add-ons and whatnot. Understanding this, Mozilla launched a new initiative - they call it “application,” but there’s no real application to speak of here - called Fashion Your Firefox. It’s a simple directory that organizes some of the best add-ons for Firefox in several easily understandable categories. This is how Mozilla defines them:...
What exactly is infoaxe? infoaxe is your Personal Web Memory. You never have to remember a web page by bookmarking, emailing to yourself etc. We believe that a Web user has more important things to do while on the Web than to do these other tasks which are basically, distractions. With infoaxe, whatever you ’see’ on the Web, becomes instantly searchable for you. You carve out your space on the Web by the sites you visit and infoaxe lets you search, manage and take this with you wherever you go. You will never forget a Web page again. Ever....
Classmates.com user Anthony Michaels must have felt like he really left an impression on his former friends from school. After all, the social network service was emailing Michaels to let him know his past acquaintances were viewing his profile and trying to get in touch in with him, only he'd need to upgrade his membership to find out who and to be able to email these individuals. Fair enough, he thought, but after dropping $15 on a Gold Membership, Michaels claims the whole thing was a scam and in fact no one from his past was either viewing his profile...
Check out some of the latest makeuseof discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For even more app reviews subscribe to makeuseof directory. Want to submit your application to MakeUseOf directory ? See how here. (1) Bug.gd - Search for computer and other type of errors you come across online and get solutions. No signup required. Read more: Bug.gd - Find Solutions To Error Messages. (2) Co-op - Something like Twitter but mainly for small businesses and organizations. Using Co-op co-workers can post their work related updates...
Thanks to a train engineer who was apparently too busy to pay attention, the focus has returned on the dangers of texting or emailing during certain activities. You’ve got the classic driving while texting, which has led to my own share of personall harrowing close calls, to a train accident that killed 25 people. Continue to see some figures from a survey commissioned by Neverfail, a software company based in Texas. 77% have [emailed or texted] while driving a moving car 41% have done mobile e-mail while skiing, riding a horse, or biking! 11% did the same during a...
A while back, Sharninder took you through Gmail Labs and some of the cool features that they were offering Gmail users. Well the other day, they brought out another new feature and this is one that I will personally find really useful as Make Use Of editor - “canned responses”. I’m sure if you do a lot of emailing, you will find it really useful too. Every day, I find myself typing out the same kinds of emails - acceptances, rejections, confirmations, facts, figures, etc. It can get rather tedious - and time consuming - writing out the same basic...
In the near-constant battle between form and function, mobile phones hit a point where they could shrink no more. But with the launch of touch screen devices and voice interfaces to bring out the power in those mini-computers, they are now hitting new usability highs. I chatted this morning with Collin Cole, who is SVP of frog design, a division of Aricent, here in Austin, about the future of user interfaces on mobile devices. Cole summed up the problem faced by carriers who want to find ways to make it easier for consumers to find and access revenue-generating data services...
I’m shortly publishing another 30 minute riot of joy featuring our Future of Web Apps conference coverage which includes a rather interesting normob walk-about and lots of shout-outs. Plus we reveal the identity of this secret handset: Did you guess it? I know one reader, John, guessed correctly. I didn’t moderate his comment for a few days to keep the suspense. All those emailing hoping it was the next generation Google Handset, I’m afraid not. Standby for our first mid-week show — by popular demand — and because we published the awards video this Monday....
It’s been a strange week at Google. Maybe the company is just trying to cheer themselves up after a brutal month on Wall Street that has seen their stock lose more than 20% of its value and been cut by a handful of analysts, but Google has released a pair of features on two of their flagship products this week that make me wonder if their calendar might just be accidentally turned to April. Google is known for funny April Fools day jokes every spring, but eagle eyed readers will notice that it is indeed October and not April. So...
I really could have used Gmail's new Mail Goggles feature back in college. Not only was I partaking a little more of the alcoholic beverages, but I was also more apt to know the math questions it's supposed to ask you when you try to send an email late at night. The issues we face, as drinking geeks, are so much harder than our parents' generation. Not only do we have to exercise caution before emailing someone under the influence, there's the danger of drunken texts, Twitters, and the evergreen drunk dial. My boozy life only really gets as crazy...
Have you ever had an episode of drunk emailing that backfired on you? Once sent, an email message cannot be “unsent” when you sober up. A new Gmail feature from Google may prevent that from happening again. When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind? By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend...
Anything that Google does makes news. Case in point: the Mail Goggles extension to Gmail, fresh out of their Lab. It’s meant to be a sort of double-check on email sending, but I’m not convinced that it’s a good solution, or even that there’s a problem here. Apparently the point of Mail Googles is to combat drunk emailing, which I wasn’t particularly aware of - at least in my corner of the email universe. After you enable it, Google will require you to solve a handful of math problems to send an email during specified hours (which default to Friday...
This email won’t leave your Gmail outbox unless you solve that Maths problem. Gmail Labs today released an interesting feature to prevent you from sending mails that may you may regret later. It does so by asking you to confirm whether you really want to send that email. So if you’re writing a mail late on a Friday night, when you may not be as sober as you would like yourself to be, you can get GMail to ask you a few math problems before the message leave your Gmail outbox. You can enable this via the "Labs" tab...
