Cool Mail hack for IMAP Gmail users

April 18, 2008

I’ve been using my Gmail account as an IMAP account with Apple Mail for a while now. Mostly, it works well but I’ve always been irritated by the additional mailboxes which are added to Mail’s sidebar as a result. Often they’re out of sync with the Gmail box which sits under Inbox at the top [...]

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Wonderful Guardian typo

April 10, 2008

The Guardian is well-known for typos. But this is a gem.

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Whole Person Design Coach

April 9, 2008

That’s a real job title. No, seriously, it really is. And there’s more of the same guff here on DIY Planner. Needless to say, having read scanned the biog, I didn’t read the rest of the post, mainly due to a desire to leave the contents of my stomach exactly where they are. Now, I [...]

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That iMac lawsuit

April 2, 2008

You’ve probably heard about the [tag-tec]iMac[/tag-tec] lawsuit by now. You know, the one where [tag-tec]Apple[/tag-tec] is being sued for claiming that the 20in model displays ‘millions of colors’ when in reality it displays 262,000 colors and uses either dithering or frame rate control to fool the human eye into thinking that it’s seeing millions of [...]

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Photoshop Express first impressions

March 27, 2008

[tag-tec]Photoshop Express[/tag-tec] may have taken a while to arrive, and even then it’s still only in beta, but it’s looking pretty good. The editing features are beautifully implemented. In addition to basic features like cropping, rotating and changing the exposure there are a number of other options ranging from the genuinely useful to what can [...]

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Seven times as many iPhone users view mobile video as other mobile phone users

March 20, 2008

The Wall Street Journal reports that as well as being heavy internet users in general, [tag-tec]iPhone[/tag-tec] owners are also by far the largest consumers of mobile television and video. According to an M:Metrics survey, 30.9% of iPhone users have watched mobile television on the device, compared to 4.6%, on average, for other [tag-tec]mobile phone[/tag-tec] users. [...]

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iPhone not so Flash

March 20, 2008

ZDNet reports that [tag-tec]Adobe[/tag-tec] has ‘clarified’ its position on Flash on the iPhone. The company issue a statement yesterday which added the following to CEO Shantanu Narayen’s comments on Tuesday. However, to bring the full capabilities of [tag-tec]Flash[/tag-tec] to the iPhone web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is [...]

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FT story on ‘all you can eat’ iPods

March 19, 2008

Today’s piece in the FT, which has predictably been picked up by pretty much every major news outlet, is a classic ‘we’ve got bugger all to say, but we’ll run with it anyway’ story. You can tell this by the fact that there’s not a single quote from anyone in the story and the fact [...]

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Murdoch in talks to rescue Yahoo

February 14, 2008

The Guardian reports that News Corp is in talks with Yahoo about merging its online business with the “ailing internet firm” “embattled internet company.” No real surprise there, particularly if you read my post a couple of weeks ago. Microsoft or News Corp? Talk about a rock and a hard place.

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GCap ditches DAB in favour of iPhone

February 11, 2008

GCap, which earlier this year closed its DAB station Core, has announced that two more DAB stations, Planet Rock and The Jazz are for the chop. The company is also to sell its stake in Digital One and Xfm FM licences outside London. At the same time as announcing the two closures, GCap, owner of [...]

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