Michael Arlington at TechCrunch reports this,
If you are thinking of buying an Xbox 360 in the next few days, don’t. We’ve gotten information that Amazon may be putting the $300 Xbox 360 bundle on sale for $100 in the next week or so as a promotional move for the holiday season. We don’t know if this will be limited to the Xbox or will include other items, or exactly how many will be put on sale – but it came from a rock solid source.
I’ll keep you posted as this story develops.
In the next two months Yahoo is going to integrate instant messaging with the Yahoo Mail platform. With the new beta platform already being popular among the users this will add a new boost to the already popular email client.
Unlike Gmail with Talk, Yahoo is planning to tightly integrate instant messaging into the UI framework itself to give the users a unified look and feel as Yahoo Mail Beta.
Here is a picture for you to visualize on what that means.
Hope it doesn’t slow down the Yahoo Mail performance. We have to wait and see. But I think this step forward is in the right direction as many times it happens that users can access Yahoo Mail but couldn’t get to the messenger at some places, for example at work. This will greatly resolve that issue.
With all the cool things that Gmail already offers, here are some new features that Gmail team has added to Gmail and is available for you to experience.
Reply on top
No more scrolling to the bottom of a long message to find the “Reply” link. Now there’s a Reply button right on top, along with a lot of other options under the little dropdown arrow.
Embarrassment-reducing new message notifications
Ever replied to a message only to find out that someone sent a better, smarter reply right before you? Now, if someone sends a reply while you’re in the middle of reading a conversation (or replying to it), you’ll get a notification that a new message has arrived. Click “update conversation” to see what you’ve missed.
Forward all
When viewing a conversation, use the new “Forward all” link on the right if you want to forward the entire conversation instead of just one message.
Chat even when your friends are offline
Chatting in Gmail just keeps getting better. Now, if you’re chatting with a friend who goes offline, your friend will be able to see whatever you were typing the next time he or she goes online.
I’m a regular viewer at Channel9. I keep hitting that site at least once a day. It has such great content in video and what I like the most is that they’ve put a human face to the otherwise hidden development team at Microsoft. Even though it had great content I never liked the design of the pages. It always looked to me like they were stuck with the <tr><td> world.
I was surprised to see that they are working on a new redesigned Channel9 which looks much better than the old design. Here is what the home page looks like. (click on the image below for the full image. If you cannot see the image click this link for the full image.)
I particularly like the new layout and also the many different download options. It looks like with the new design you can download Channel9 videos to your iPod, PSP, Windows Media Player and guess what, to Zune as well. That’s plenty of options and surely will make the life of the viewers a lot easy.
Thank you Channel9 team. Keep up the good work.
I’m a big fan of Robert Scoble. For those of you who have no idea of who Robert Scoble is,
He got me addicted to Channel9 and I keep hitting that site at least once a day so far that I can remember. I like his “who are you?” introduction. And lately he got me addicted to his ScobleShow which is another site that I keep hitting it quite often lately. He truly is an inspiration to me.
Anyways, he used to be a kind of guy who posts to his blog consistently but with fewer posts. I just noticed lately that he has started posting it quite often with growing number of posts. That makes it exciting.
Keep posting Robert. And keep posting more videos on ScobleShow. Hope you find the time.
We all work out, we all need re-hydration, we all buy Gatorade…and you know that it’s expensive over a period of time. Yaniverse has a nice, simple, cost effective and do-it-yourself alternative to Gatorade.
Here is the gist of how.
EnerT Ingredients (32 oz or about 1 liter):
Contains:
Estimated Cost:
Compare to 32 oz Gatorade:
PS: Adding a bit of lime on top of lemon will make it taste better to me.
I’ve posted the ingredients up here as I normally feel uncomfortable with the trust factor of external links. But if you want to read the source of the article, visit here.
I don’t remember where I came across this but here is a bit of something to smile about.
An American decided to write a book about famous churches around the world.
So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to China. On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read “$10,000 per call”.
The American, being intrigued, asked a priest who was strolling by what the telephone was used for. The priest replied that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 you could talk to God. The American thanked the priest and went along his way.
Next stop was in japan. There, at a very large cathedral, he saw the same golden telephone with the same sign under it. He wondered if this was the same kind of telephone he saw in china and he asked a nearby nun what its purpose was. She told him that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 he could talk to God. ”O.K., thank you,” said the American.
He then traveled to Russia, Germany, France, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
In every church he saw the same golden telephone with the same “$10,000 per call” sign under it.
Finally he thought he would stop by at India to see if they have the same phone there as well.He arrived in India, and again, in the first church he entered, there was the same golden telephone, but this time the sign under it read “One Rupee per call.”
The American was surprised so he asked the priest about the sign.
“Father, I’ve traveled all over the world and I’ve seen this same golden telephone in many churches. I’m told that it is a direct line to Heaven and so it was priced at $10,000 per call.
Why is it so cheap here?”The priest smiled and answered, “You’re in India now, son – it’s just a local call”.
For those us who use Firefox day-in and day-out are kind of blessed, particularly when it comes to trying to find something on a page. We just either start typing-in and let Firefox do the inline search and move to the block of text that matches or we “Ctrl + F” and then type-in the text that we want to find. Blessed are the Firefoxers.
Now think about the same experience if you are using Internet Explorer. IE, by default, comes with a modal search dialog that’s pretty much annoying at times of searching thru long pages. Now, blessing arrives for IEers in the form of InlineSearch.
InlineSearch is a free add-on for Internet Explorer that brings into IE the same search experience of Firefox. It pretty much behaves the same as Firefox search. It hijacks only the search shortcut key “Ctrl + F”. What does that mean? That means for those patriotic IEers you can still go back to the traditional IE search by using the Edit menu.
Here are some shortcuts that would be handy when using InlineSearch,
CTRL-F – to open/refresh the search pane
ESC – to close the search pane when in focus
F3 or ENTER – find the next occurrence
SHIFT-F3 – find the previous occurrence (Shift-Enter works too)
You can download InlineSearch from here.
Note: It plays nice with IE versions 5.5 and above.
