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Friday, October 17, 2008

A sneak peek at Gmail on Android

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGmailBlog/~3/423880173/sneak-peek-at-gmail-on-android.html

Posted by Jonathan Matus, Product Marketing Manager, Android The first Android-powered phone, the T-Mobile G1, is coming out on Wednesday. My friends know that I work on Android, and as you can imagine, I get asked about it all the time. I have a lot to say about the G1, but I always begin by telling them that lots of Google products, including Gmail, are available for free, on several mobile devices. I've been using Gmail on the go for more than a year now and it's difficult to imagine my life without ubiquitous email access. It proves handy every day -- whether for keeping a close eye on a (very) busy inbox, finding the address of a party while already in the taxi, or sending out a spontaneous dinner plan while on the bus back home. If you like using Gmail on your computer you'll feel very much at ease with Gmail on Android-powered phones. You can download documents and MP3s, manage and view labels, star and archive messages, save drafts and even report spam.

I check my email frequently and have two Gmail accounts -- one for work and one for personal life. Before I started using Gmail on the T-Mobile G1, I used to check my mail by actively reloading or refreshing my inbox on one of my other mobile devices. And with two email accounts, I had to repeat this twice each time.

A sneak peek at Gmail on Android [Official Gmail blog ]

Tip: Read your mail without touching your mouse

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGmailBlog/~3/409695875/tip-read-your-mail-without-touching.html

Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Gmail Product Marketing Manager First, if you don't have Gmail keyboard shortcuts enabled, turn them on in Settings. You'll be glad you did. If you spend a lot of time in Gmail, you'll start shaving milliseconds of every action, which adds up. Get through a hundred or so messages every day and you'll end up with extra minutes each week to read your favorite blogs in Reader -- using Reader's keyboard shortcuts of course. Here's how I read my mail: 1. Log in. If I'm on my own computer I don't even have to do this, since I have the "Remember me on this computer" option checked on the Gmail homepage.

2. Get rid of stuff I obviously don't need to read. I scan the senders and subjects of unread messages in my inbox, navigate through the messages using k to move the cursor (little black triangle) upwards and j to move it back down.

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Firefox 3.1 Adds Keyword Filters to the AwesomeBar [Firefox 3.1 Beta]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/421467295/firefox-31-adds-keyword-filters-to-the-awesomebar

If you're one of the brave testers who dove into the first beta of Firefox 3.1 released yesterday, you already know about the Ctrl+Tab goodness and other neat features it offers. But there are two more features especially useful for keyboard lovers with a thick bookmarks and history file: Firefox 3.1 offers several special characters that filter the smart address bar's drop-down suggestions to page titles, your history, your bookmarks, or your tags. You can also preview any keyword searches you have set up as you type. Here's how it works.

With the Firefox 3.1 Beta installed, you can start typing keywords into the "AwesomeBar" as usual to get a drop-down of suggested destinations culled from your history and bookmarks. But several special characters can filter those results as you type. Blogger Edward Lee runs them down:

You can restrict the search to your history by typing ^, or bookmarks with *, or tagged pages with +. To make what you've typed match only in the URL type @, and for title/tags only use #.

For example, to find a page with the word "life" in the title or URL in your bookmarks, type life *, and you'll get any page with life in the title as well as lifehacker.com pages (assuming you've got lifehacker.com bookmarked). You can mix and match operators, too. For just bookmarks with life in the URL, enter life * @.

If you use Firefox keyword searches like we do, now you can see what query y! our keyw ord matches as you type. For example, I use w as my keyword to search Wikipedia, so when I type w into my address bar, the first suggestion looks like this:

Similarly, I use a ?lh keyword to do a Google search of just the lifehacker.com domain. Here's what that looks like as I type:

You can also roll up your sleeves and make some changes inside Firefox 3.1's about:config area to tweak what shows up in the address bar's drop-down. Check out Ed's full post for details, or see our previously posted useful Firefox 3 configuration tweaks for more.

Firefox 3.1 testers, what do you think so far? Let us know how it's going in the comments.

Firefox 3.1 Restricts, Matches, Keywords [edilee via CNET]

TubeMaster Plus Grabs Video or Audio From Nearly Any Site [Featured Windows Download]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/421541015/tubemaster-plus-grabs-video-or-audio-from-nearly-any-site

Windows only: Free streaming media capture tool TubeMaster is a great all-in-one solution for grabbing and converting audio and video from nearly any web site that can stream it to you. The no-install app launches as its own application with a built-in, tabbed browser—simply launch it, head to Last.fm, YouTube, a site with proprietary Flash video, or nearly any other streaming media, and hit "Start Media Capture." The files you grab are lined up in a queue for you to decide how to convert and save, and TubeMaster's built-in media search tool covers nearly 100 video and audio-sharing sites. There are browser plug-ins and apps that do some of the same things, but none quite as comprehensively as TubeMaster Plus. TubeMaster Plus is a free download for Windows systems only; upgrading to a paid version unlocks downloads from adult sites.