Google Voice AIR App Keeps Voicemail and SMS on Your Desktop [Downloads]
Just like on a mobile browser, Voice's interface is surprisingly spry for such a pared-down site, but it's also lightning fast running on a desktop or laptop. The app allows you to play and pause voicemail messages through your system's audio, set up calls with your hooked-up phones, and run through your contacts and search your SMS and transcription history. With Google Voice no longer requiring a new number, this little app might be a nice introduction to the service for those who don't want to commit to keeping a browser tab open all day.
Google Voice Desktop is a free download, works on any system with Adobe AIR installed.
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Last week's Hive Five vote was a heated one and involved all the high-noon drama of a dusty street shootout. PortableApps started with a strong lead, followed by LiberKey with a very respectable second place position. Both groups had noted on their forums that their respective portable suites were up for a vote. Early this morning LiberKey shot to first place with a sudden surge of votes, and by the time the polls closed they had squeezed out a small lead over PortableApps. In the comments many people were calling the sudden surge into question, and in a very mature gesture the lead developer for LiberKey, Christophe Peuch, did some digging on his side of things and found out that a small group of overzealous LiberKey users had stuffed the ballot box. He fired off an email to us right away, and as a result we're returning LiberKey to the second place slot which it held prior to the gaming.
The same day that 
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You registered a domain name and set up the free 
This flavor of Google Apps is only useful to people who own their own domain name (or want to purchase one), and who plan to set up a workgroup b! ehind th at domain. For example, if you're Carol Brady and you register thebradybunch.com domain name, you're going to want to set up several users at that domain. With Google Apps, Carol could create a greg@thebradybunch.com account, a marcia@thebradybunch.com account, all the way down to Cindy, Bobby, Alice, and Tiger. When Marcia gets hitched? Carol can add her spouse to the family domain. When Alice moves onto greener pastures? Carol could shut down or suspend her account.
If you own multiple varieties of your domain name—for instance, multiple 
If you've got only a few users to create, you can add them to your domain one by one. However, if you've got a large group, Google Apps offers a bulk upload option. To use it, you make a spreadsheet of user's first and last names, use! rname an d password, and upload that to your Google Apps Dashboard. (Visit https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/yourdomain.com/Users, but replace "yourdomain.com" with your domain.) You can also create user groups or mailing lists with various flavors of permissions—accessible to the outside world, only reachable from people sending from inside your domain, and with custom roles for each user (member or owner). For example, a softball league might have an "Umpires" group, a "Coaches" group, and a "Players" user group.
One of the biggest complaints about Google Apps accounts is that they're usually the last to get new and experimental features like Gmail Labs. (Yes, that took an 
One of the advantages of having your own domain name is that you have control and access to every single word combination @ yourdomain.com email address that you want. If you create a "catch-all address," you can forward any email that comes to your domain and doesn't match a user to a specific address. This means that if you wanted to use custom email addresses on the fly—like amazon@yourdomain.com when you register for an account at Amazon, or lifehacker@yourdomain.com when you register for an account at Lifehacker, you can do so without having to create custom addresses. Instead, set up your domain's catch-all address to forward to your user account. To set up a catch-all address, in your Google Apps Dashboard, from the Service Settings drop-down choose Email. There you can either reject mail that comes to addresses that don't match a user, or set up a catch-all forwarding address as shown above.
Where Google Apps really shines is in its workgroup-level permissions-handling. In Google Docs as well as Google Calendar, you can choose to share docs and calendars with everyone within your domain only. That means if someone leaves your team and you suspend their account, they automatically lose access to sensitive workgroup data in one shot. You don't have to remove them from every doc and calendar you've ever shared with them. Conversely, when you choose the "Share" option in Docs and Calendar, you have the option to share with everyone in your domain, instead of individuals, as shown here.
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Mozilla's all-in-one browser, email, RSS, and calendar suite SeaMonkey has been updated to 2.0, and it's a pretty big overhaul. The release notes include a lot of new changes, including more similarity to Firefox in the user profiles, add-ons, and UI elements, as well as faster IMAP, Mozilla Lightning calendar plug-in, and more. You can read the full changelog 
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