Google Apps Sync for MS Outlook

Google Apps targets the biz users, but these users are so ingrained in using Microsoft Outlook that when they HAVE to use the Google web interfaces for email, calendar and contacts, the adoption is kind of "too slow".

With this took, Google has done just right to solve the user interface issue (and effectively reduced to zero the learning curve of the new Google Apps users). Perhaps, if the administrator is clever, the users of Google Apps would probably not even know their mail and calendar are supported in the back-end by Google Apps instead of the (expensive) Exchange Server.

Firefox 3.5 Video Handling

That really amazes me! Take a look at how video can be manipulated in Firefox 3.5! Great!!!

Bing Image Archive

Long Zheng from istartedsomething set up an archive for Bing search engine home page background images. The archive can be found at this link: http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages/. Quite cool that he did it. =)

There are two images for each day: one for US and the other for International version. There are two types of direct link to an image on a particular day: for example, http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages/#20090526-us is a link to an image on 26 May 2009 US version; for international version, use au in place of us. (Please note Long Zheng is from Australia.) The link above will show in the background the calendar for the current month.

If you want to show the calendar for a particular month, use this link: http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages/?m=5&y=2009#20090526-au. Actually there are two more parameters in the URL: m and y. The meaning of the parameters should be self-explanatory. If the two parameters are not provided (as in the first link), the PHP page defaults to the current year and month.

There are some really nice photos over there, especially if you like photography.

Create document from Gmail

A new lab feature in Gmail lets us create a Google document from within Gmail. At first I thought it wasn't very impressive, but after trying it with an HTML email, I was quite impressed by the new feature.

One way I could find it useful is when I want to have a PDF version of my email. I could simply just create a document out of the email and download it from Google Docs as a PDF file. I could have printed the email from Gmail but that's not how I want my PDF file looks like. So, I think this new feature is pretty useful. =)

YouTube HD Videos

YouTube now streams HD videos. The quality is so damn good! Plus, the format is now 16:9.

That's how things should be in a few years from now. Love it!

Dell was confused?

Just saw a promotion for Studio XPS on Dell. It features Core i7, the recently released Quad Core processor. Intel introduced L3 cache in this line of processors but Dell seems to get confused. The Core i7 features 8MB L3 cache in fact.

Google Spreadsheet Pixel Art

Fun? Join the Pixel Art at this URL. =)

Hope you will like it.