In the latest post at the Twitter Blog [titled: Hello New Zealand], twitter has announced of the new-two way SMS service on Vodafone in New Zealand. So to all the Kiwis out there, here’s some Tweet Tweet Love!!!
Here is what they have to say about this.
The shortcode for Twitter in NZ is 8987 or TWTR. As always, Twittering over SMS is a standard rate message or deducted from your bundle and receiving notifications is free. If you’re not a Vodafone customer, don’t worry—we’re working on it.
Also, Twitter seems to be having their eyes now on to Australia. Happy Tweeting in the South!!
by Sujoy on April 13, 2009
Innovation is thy name GMail. The new features to be introduced on GMail Labs this time are Sender Time Zone and Image insert in Mail. Let’s deal with them one by one.
1. Sender Time Zone:
In a livewire world where most users are using mail 24/7 and across the world, travelling across different time zones, time zone recognition for mail will definitely make life much easier. SO, the new feature on GMail : Sender Time Zone will do exactly that. It has two features:-
a) Show if it is the sender’s office hours currently (i.e. 9 am to 6 pm in the sender’s time zone)
b) On clicking details, it will show the Sender’s Time Zone, and when the mail was sent. [ via. GMail Blog]
2. Insert Image:
Lemme begin with Yayyyyy!!!! It sounds exactly like it is. You can now insert images in the post. No workaround required. Enable in Labs (Setting–> Labs) and voila. Users who trust your content can view them straight away, else, have to use the ‘Display Images Below’ setting to display the embedded images. Easy peasy!!! [ via GMail Blog]
by Sujoy on January 27, 2009
Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer version 8.0 RC1, which is supposedly going to be bundled with Windows 7. But before you go and press the download button, let us have a look if they have made any substantial changes. In other words, is the new IE really worth it?
MS says: New rendering engine, support for CSS 2.1, ‘smart address bar’ ( very similar to Firefox’s Awesome Bar ).
It is not available for Macs, only for WinXP and Vista 32 and 64 bit versions. MS officials have confirmed of not going for any further changes in the user-interface or the programming from now onwards until its release. So pretty much, RC1 is what you would get. So, what’s different from the beta? MS has listed the whole list out here.
But seems like, more than that, IE (or rather MS) has picked up a few tips from Chrome (Google). Firstly, the separate process for each tab which would ensure IE would not crash for failure in one of the tabs.
Secondly, the “porn mode” or the InPrivate mode which is very similar to the Incognito Window in Google Chrome.
DownloadSquad has run a few tests comparing the IE8 RC1 with Google Chrome, Firefox 3 and Opera. The results are here.
For more on the IE8 RC1, please visit the following links.
New Internet Explorer 8 accelerates browsing
Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1: Promises Faster and Safer Browsing
Microsoft’s IE8 Release Candidate Is Live; Nearly Identical To Final Release
by Sujoy on October 28, 2008
The GOOG guys are pushing it harder. Calendar and Docs have just been included in the GMail and the Labs team have integrated this service which has received quite a welcome appreciation from the blogosphere. The Official GMail post says that ” The (GMail)Labs Team has worked on:
a simple way to see your Google Calendar agenda and get an alert when you have a meeting, and a gadget that shows a list of your recently accessed Google Docs and lets you search across all of your documents right from within Gmail”
And it doesn’t stop there. There’s a third lab enabling users to add any Google Gadget to GMail by just pasting in the URL of its XML spec file.(e.g. http://www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube_videos.xml)
All of this is being added on the left nav where we have our chat windows and labels below the normal inbox links. Talking of which, the question arises whether GMail INBOX would now be a cluttered space like MySpace or like the Facebook horror page that was cluttered with applications everywhere.
Answering to this question, GMail official Dan Pupius has said that the new GMail Gadgets are not aimed at being user friendly at the moment, and are aimed at developers who want to play around with the available resources. And to add to that, the left nav-bar is certainly not the only space where they would be adding up the features.And all these future additions to come up in GMail space, would also take into consideration the major edge of GMail over other mail services-Speed. With more and more additions to the Inbox, will GMail be able to keep up? Let’s wait and watch!!
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