Posted on 19 November 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Gmail is introducing today the ability to change the look and feel of your inbox. 30 new themes are available from a new “Themes” tab in the settings section of Gmail.
Changing the theme of Gmail has been possible with [...]
Tags: gmail, luca filigheddu, Mozilla Firefox, skin, Theme
Posted on 19 November 2008
For those asking themselves what’s going on at GrandCentral, the “one number for life” service acquired by Google last year, today Google announces Vocito, a desktop UI for GrandCentral and, this time, for Mac users only.
It’s basically an apple script which integrates into Address Book or the popular launcher Quicksilver. In general, any application which [...]
Tags: Address Book, call, Google, GrandCentral, luca filigheddu, vocito
Posted on 18 November 2008
If you spend much time on Facebook and don’t want to switch tabs of your browser too many times, Fmail brings Gmail straight to your facebook account.
It works really well and all your folders and contacts are properly imported. Unfortunately you loose all the ajax features you are used to.
If you want to try it [...]
Tags: facebook, Fmail, gmail, luca filigheddu
Posted on 06 November 2008
Google Labs just introduced a couple of interesting experimental features that you can test while performing a search on Google.
I subscribed to all of them and they look really nice.
Keyboard Navigation
Now you can easily navigate your search results as you are used to do on Google Reader. J/K lets you move to the previous/next search [...]
Tags: Accessibility, Experiment, Google Labs, Google Reader, luca filigheddu, Search
Posted on 23 October 2008
This is what I’ve been waiting for since the release of version 1.5 of Gmail for mobile, the previous version that was completely unusable for me, as stated in this blog many times.
According to Google, many important improvements have been introduced in this new version, such as multiple account management or offline support (that is, [...]
Tags: gmail, gmail 2.0, Google, luca filigheddu, Mobile, Mobile phone
Posted on 08 October 2008
In the last couple of weeks I received a lot of friend’s requests on Facebook from people I’d never have thought could have joined Facebook. Schoolmates as well as old friends, many of them finally discovered Facebook and joined it. Moreover, the driver who led them to join was to stay in touch with people, [...]
Tags: facebook, Google, Google Docs, iphone, luca filigheddu, operating system, Web 2.0
Posted on 18 September 2008
Here at Mobilize Steve Lee, Project Manager at Google and responsible for Google Maps for mobile, just revealed that when users have the ability to get their current position either by a GPS-enabled device or through the data network, the usage of the application doubles.
He said this happens especially when people search for a route [...]
Tags: Android, Google, Google Maps, Google Street View, luca filigheddu, Mobile, Mobile phone, mobilize, Street View, Walking Directions