My Thoughts on GDS 2 Beta, & a Web OS

Having been playing and thinking about the new Google Desktop Search, and specifically its new sidebar form, I have the following few thoughts. Firstly, like all Google innovations, it’s US only at the moment, content wise. This means that the news and weather info is restricted to the States, which is useless for the rest … Keep reading

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 have an account – it also indexes your whole archived account, so you can search … Keep reading

Gmail hints

Great collection of hints and tips for Gmail users here, as linked to yesterday by John Naughton.

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 online alternate reality game. The BoingBoing article states: …In fairness, it is also possible for … Keep reading

Link icon

This afternoon, I ‘designed’ a quite frankly rubbish link icon for this blog, in the style of the little rectangles one sees on many blogs, including this one. Here it is: The font is Jason Kottke’s Silkscreen, perfect for this kind of small scale work.