October 2007


Stony Stevenson writes “Google on Tuesday confirmed it is giving Gmail a new look. This blog post has screenshots of a new Gmail interface that has been made available to a limited number of users. They are calling it “Gmail 2.0″ even if Google isn’t. Google confirmed the update is underway at its new San Francisco office, just prior to a briefing on an unrelated upcoming Google announcement. A Google spokesperson said that the new look has been made available to about one percent of all Gmail users and is being rolled out the rest on an ongoing basis.”

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So many video file formats, so many handheld video players, so many online video sites, and so little time. To have your favorite clips how you want them—whether that’s on your DVR, iPod, PSP…

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Mac OS X only: If you run any kind of server on your Mac with Leopard, you’ll dig its revamped Sharing and Network System Preferences panels, which offer new features in a reorganized interface. …

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Firefox only: Yesterday you learned how to auto-hide your Firefox bookmarks toolbar, and today we’ve got the tweak to make that toolbar wrap onto multiple lines instead of scrolling off the right…

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Linux only: Want the look and feel of a Mac without paying the high-end design premium? Tired of hearing from all your Mac-happy friends how awesome Leopard looks? Got time to run through six pages…

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Need a template for your business plan, a tutorial on Python programming, or a copy of the Gettysburg address? Document sharing web site DocStoc has more than 12,000 files posted for free browsing…

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Job hunters should choose their words carefully on their resume, says the blogger at The Life of an Internet Entrepreneur: Just like there are ways of getting data on popular search words on Google,…

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Happy Halloween! Lest you missed any good Lifehacker this month, here’s a quick list of October’s most popular posts:Top 10 Wi-Fi Boosts, Tweaks and Apps
“No doubt you’ve got a home wireless network…

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If you can live with the Samsung NV11’s portability constraints, it’s an excellent choice for an all-around camera that’s fun to use and equally accommodating of beginners and advanced shutterbugs.

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Among many other features, The Tilt can function as a full-featured mobile computer, from the mobile versions of Microsoft Word and Excel it contains to its multimedia playback to its built-in GPS for use with the TeleNav GPS Navigator.

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