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.