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Gmail Gets Auto-Replies

This is one feature that I’ve been wanting for ages! Hello, you’ve reached Chad’s mailbox. Thanks for your email about the latest Labs feature: Canned Responses, or email for the truly lazy. I’m on paternity leave so I won’t be … Continue reading

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Android Goes Open Source

Yesterday was a big day for advanced mobile phones - Android went fully open source. I really like the iPhone (it will be my next phone) - it’s the most complete device out there, but I would love to see … Continue reading

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Google Adds Gears to Safari

This is a worthwhile install if you’re a WordPress user (or any other gears enabled system) on the mac - great to see some Safari lovin’. We’re really excited to announce the official release of Gears for Safari on OS … Continue reading

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Spanning Sync 2.0 to Add Contact Sync

I’m already a lover of Spanning Sync, version 2 promises to have contact syncing between all your Google apps with the Mac address book. This could be very very good. Check the link for a video of it in action. … Continue reading

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Google Chart API

The chaps over at Google have come up with a neat webservice - an easy way to get charts onto your webpages, the Google Chart API. Google has finally released Google Charts API, which returns a PNG-format image in response … Continue reading

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Google Maps for Mobile Adds Positioning

Sounds like a good new feature… Google is set on Wednesday to launch a new feature in its Google Maps for Mobile program that automatically sets your location even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device. Until … Continue reading

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Darwin Calendar Server

At the moment I’m a very happy user of Google calendar and Spanning Sync for all my scheduling needs. But the geek in me fancies playing about with things so I’m thinking about setting up a CalDav server (when time … Continue reading

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Getting Gmail IMAP Running Nicely

I’ve just managed to get my Gmail service upgraded to the new version with IMAP support,1 and as such i’ve been trawling the net for information on how to get this all set-up nicely. By this I mean moving my … Continue reading

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A First Look at Android

I really thought that Android was going to be a complete turkey, but after watching some of the videos up on YouTube it does look like it could be quite promising. If someone releases some decent hardware at a reasonable … Continue reading

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Google Maps for Mobiles

Dammit! This would have been VERY useful to know about last weekend.1 Google Maps for Mobiles Whilst lost looking for a mates house in Bedford (and being quite late for the house warming party). ↩

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