Google Sidebar
Google Sidebar is part of the new version 2 of Desktop Search. It works pretty much like Desktop Sidebar, but obviously with all Google services involved. It features an email preview pane, which will pick up your Gmail, if you…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Links 21/8/05
Shel Israel: 5 Reasons to Worry about Google John Naughton: Computers and masochism – links to today’s Observer column I, Cringely: Patently Absurd Kottke: So long, Technorati 43 Folders: Life inside one big text file
York
Well, the trip was a great success – we had a lovely time and, most importantly, she said YES! Here’s a couple of photos – more on Flickr.
Links 18/8/05
BBC: Cheap laptops provoke Mac mayhem Met chief tried to stop shooting inquiry Guardian Online: Apple hack Guardian Online: Back to the fold PC World: Reading (and Writing) Blogs
Links 17/8/05
The Register: Cockney suits abuse f**king email Guardian Online: Utter Rubbish Joho the Blog: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Infocom Game Business2Blog: Outsourcing Blogs (and Splogs) to China Guardian Football: Scholes makes it easier for Eriksson
Gmail hints
Great collection of hints and tips for Gmail users here, as linked to yesterday by John Naughton.
Stating the Bleeding Obvious
As reported in The Guardian: I’ve never read a book, says Posh. I would have thought that should anyone have actually wasted their time considering this issue, they would have assumed that was the case anyway? Baby, Scary, Ginger, Sporty and Bookish…
Links 16/8/05
Will start having a post with various links I have come across which don’t necessarily need any further comment from me. Rather than have a link per post, I will save them up during the day and then post when…
Blogger for Word
The Blogger Buzz blog announces a new tool for Blogger – an extension for MS Word that allows you to write and post entries direct from the word processor. Cool. It’s been imaginatively called Blogger for Word.
BBC ‘punks’ Wikipedia?
Saw this on Slashdot: An article over at BoingBoing discusses what appears to be a viral marketing ploy appearing in a Wikipedia entry. Quote: “Someone has apparently abused collaborative reference site Wikipedia in a viral marketing campaign for a BBC…