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(Yes, an update. I know it’s been a while, but I will try to blog more regularly.) While I understand Google had to do a lot behind the scenes to ensure that actions mapped into Gmail properly, it has been a long wait for long-time Gmail users like me to get IMAP support in Google’s [...]

I have been running with a sidebar (the aptly named Desktop Sidebar application) ever since I started using a dual monitor setup many years back. The added productivity from having so much at your fingertips certainly makes up for the small loss of screen real estate. I have tried a couple of different alternatives, but [...]

Greg Hughes writes about a great feature in Google where you can actually ask it what time it is in a certain place in natural language and get a response. This is cool, and something I’m sure I’ll be making big use of when traveling. Google keeps amazing me more every day. I also make [...]

This looks useful – Microsoft SyncToy Beta. There are a lot of other offerings out there to do the same thing, but for the price (free) Microsoft’s new toy looks pretty cool. I especially like the fact that it recognizes when I rename a file, and subsequently renames the file in the synching directory instead [...]

After using X-Windows on Unix systems, you get used to some of their nicer features, and if your anything like me you seek out ways to get those features on Windows. Here are two programs to get two of the features I love from X onto Windows: XDESK – the best virtual desktop manager I [...]