Google TV Coming to TVs this Fall
Google TV is coming to (many) TVs this Fall. So what is Google TV? Watch this video first:
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Software
Book Review: Head First WordPress
O’Reilly recently released a new book in their Head First series – all about WordPress, the blogging/CMS platform that this and millions of other sites run on. We had a chance to review this solid book over on one of our sister blogs, Untethered Dreams.
(Disclaimer: Gizmos for Geeks received a complimentary review copy of this product.)
Google’s Logo du Jour – Animated, “Atomized” Letters
Google’s bouncy ball logo on their home page is amusing, but not sure it can beat the Pac Man game version!
iPhone Real Money Poker
The iPhone has been one of Apple’s biggest successes but it’s not exactly the apple of online poker players’ eyes. The iPhone does many things amazingly well, but online poker games aren’t one of them, as Apple’s decision to not support Flash and its stringent approval process for any iPhone app have left online poker fans out in the cold.
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Will Gmail’s Priority Inbox Work?
Google has a new Gmail feature to help those of us suffering from e-mail overload – Priority Inbox.
The idea is relatively simple. The Priority Inbox component watches your e-mail, what you read and reply to, what you delete and other signals and tries to ‘learn’ what you consider important. It then separates your Inbox into 3 sections: Important (at the top naturally), the Starred items, and Everything Else.
Requisite cute video:
So will it work? …
Make Phone Calls from Gmail
Guess where you can now make a phone call from? Gmail. Yes, Gmail. If you’ve been using video chat already, then you are already set up for making calls. If not, you’ll have to take a minute or two to install a plugin.
Until the end of the year, calls to the US and Canada are free, and calls to other countries start at $0.02 per minute. Naturally, we have to mention Skype as they’re a direct competitor, and Google’s rates are surprisingly low and beat Skype’s.
Google now offers simultaneous multiple account sign-in
Another one of those ‘at last’ features: Google now has a multiple account sign-in feature, so you don’t need to use a different browser or logout-and-login in order to check a different Google account.
For now, this feature only works with a select few G-services, but they include Gmail, Calendar, Reader & Voice.
To use, just head over to your Google Account settings and edit the Multiple Sign-In option.
Be careful though with this feature – it’s not exactly trivial, so you’ll want to read the help on it. By the way, if you’d rather not use this, there’s a neat Greasemonkey Script called Google Account Multi-Login that works similarly.
What does Google’s buy out of Slide mean?
News of Google’s acquisition of Slide, a social apps and photo software maker, led to a flurry of discussion regarding Google’s plans for becoming a bigger player in the social networking arena.
Google has had some (socially-oriented) flops on their hands lately – Buzz was launched too quickly, and Wave just this week saw its development stopped (and will probably be shuttered).
There has been a rumor for a few weeks well now that Google is planning to build a Facebook-like site to of course, compete with Facebook. After all, 500 million pairs of eyes (and growing) is a lot of traffic and in turn, ad revenue. Slide would fit right into those plans as they already have some of the most popular social networking apps and widgets to go along with such a platform.
And if not, Slide still makes money hand over fist and that can’t be a bad thing to own.
Gmail now lets you drag attachments out of e-mails
And now the reverse is true. The reverse of dragging a file to attach to a Gmail message is… dragging an attachment out of a Gmail email to save to your desktop.
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Make your own posters with ProPoster software
We reviewed the PostersPrinting service a while back which will turn your photos into posters. Here’s a take on that idea: DIY software, ProPoster, that lets you print the poster components yourself, glue not included!
Before you jump on the ProPoster idea thinking it’s cheaper, keep in mind that this is more suited for when you need to create large (throwaway) banners and/or don’t care as much for the quality of the print or continuous nature of the paper.
PostersPrinting (which looks like it has been subsumed by parent company Mimeo) produces a quality poster of a more permanent nature that can be framed and hung.