Month: October 2006
Firefox oddness
Am running the recently v2 of FireFox, only this strange thing is happening at the moment, a weird beige strip between the title and the menu bar, using up screen estate and generally being annoying…
Tags: firefox
Death of an iPod, Pressies
My iPod has gone wrong. For some reason, it refuses to update with new songs and podcasts. So, I need a replacement. But do I spend 300 odd quid on a new iPod, or look to another solution – because it’s not like iPods are exactly perfect…
I’m thinking of using this instead:
Yep, my mobile. Well, it’s meant to be a Walkman, isn’t it? Using the headphone jack I can still get it working in the car, and if I buy myself a 4gb memory card, I’ll be well away. Alright, it won’t be the same as my old 20gb iPod, but it’s a lot cheaper than getting a new one, and I can still play the songs already on the old one, so…
Pressies
Picked up all the wedding presents today. If anyone who reads this got us one, then thanks. The trouble is, with all these lovely new plates and bowls and whatnot, we can’t bare to use them in our current kitchen, which is a little rundown. We need to move. And hopefully, having looked round a house today, we soon will. Nice one.
Gmail Attachments and Google Docs
Interesting post on Google Operating System blog:
If Gmail were integrated with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, it would have a new link next to some attachments that says “Import in Google Docs & Spreadsheets”. This way, you could edit these files online.
Fortunately, if you go to this page, you can find a mail address where you can send your documents to be uploaded in Google Docs. So you can add that address as a contact (let’s say Google Docs), and forward the mails that have .doc or .xls attachments to that address.
You can even add a filter that sends all your .doc or .xls attachments to Google Docs & Spreadsheets:
Has the words: has:attachment doc OR xls
Forward it to: (the email address discussed above)For the moment, you can upload only files smaller than 500 KB and you can’t upload spreadsheets by mail (but this feature will be added soon).
I’d rather there were some sort of Google file manager to managed all attachments and Docs files in the same place, but it’s a step forward anyway…