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K-SpaceDon't taze me bro! January 19 Getting Rid of Ads on Hotmail / Live MailSo here's a little snippet that'll help you get rid of those pesky ads you see on the side of your your hotmail / windows live mail:
javascript:void(document.getElementById('MainContent').style.right='0px')
1. Simply copy and paste the above line into your address bar once your hotmail page loads.
You can also do the following if you use Firefox:
Add a bookmark (Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks -> New BookMark
Give the bookmark a name and paste the above javascript code into the location.
The next time you login to hotmail using firefox, simply click on the bookmark you created to get rid of the ad. September 18 Why doesn't any major web-based mail provider support attachments in a smart way?As far as I know, there is only one way to this: find the old email, save the attachment to my computer, find the new email I started responding to and saved in drafts, attach the file and wait for it to get uploaded ALL OVER AGAIN.
From an end-user perspective, this sucks. This is also ill-conceived from a mail management perspective. Google changed the game by giving 2GB free and forcing competitors to respond in kind with lots of storage. Re-using attachments on the server in a smart way would be a huge cost saving when it comes to storage and bandwidth. Efficiences can be attained whenever someone sends an attachment to a bunch of people in the same network, and when someone simply reuse an attachment. August 28 IE 8 Beta 2 Pack a PunchInternet Explorer, Version 8, Beta 2, certainly packs a punch.
The much publicized InPrivate browsing, Smart Screen Filter and Web Slices are super cool. The Debugger that comes with the browser is out of the world - just when I was starting to think why a debugger like firebug, built with far fewer resources than IE's debugger could outperform, Microsoft has delivered a debugger par exemplar - something that really works - an integrated debugger which comes with a profiler (jscript / javascript) borrowing concepts from Fiddler (at least looks that way) and outstanding code formatting.
The find (Ctrl+F) is finally a pop-in instead of a dialog window and highlights words much like Firefox.
Looks like finally someone at Microsoft has given backward compatibility and phasing out older versions a lot of thought. The compatibility mode and having that be the default option for intranet sites is great (for the lazy enterprise developers I guess).
Shortcomings:
1. I still struggle with tab - window management balance and cannot drag tabs from one browser window to another like I do with Firefox.
2. Firefox introduced a good for nothing feature showing when you downloaded something using their browser - while it doesn't help a whole lot, its something. There is no semblance of such a feature in IE 8 - wonder what the UX people at MS were doing when it came to prioritizing this.
3. Favorites management in IE still sucks - nothing that would help someone who has used the internet for years and years manage their favorites efficiently!
4. <CANVAS> is still NOT supported! - Imagine the cool things that would be possible - I don't want going around telling people that I have to use Silverlight.
My verdict: Superb technical advancement in the following aspects-
1. ACID 2 compliance
2. Introducing cross browser ajax requests
3. New CSS effects
4. and features already mentioned above.
But IE8's UX still has ways to go.
If I were to compare IE vs. Firefox version to version, I would rate Firefox 2 above IE 7 (due to the community embracing Firefox plugins (add-ons / extensions) a whole lot more than IE - and a lot of good that has come out of that). I use (correction tried using Firefox 3) and went back to Firefox 2, because, it SUCKS! Firefox's idea of phasing out FF2 by adding a nag screen is a total disaster. Add to that the metallic large look for the back button (making the commonly used target larger notwithstanding).
Oh and making the tabs thinner in IE 8 was genius - visually speaking. Definitely gives a lighter appearance April 03 Gmail-Grandcentral Integration Coming Soon?I use GrandCentral to manage my phone calls and the features they have are very convenient. Grandcentral can send you email notifications as voicemail. I was trying to tag my voicemails "voicemail" - duh and got the following error. Turns out the following labels are not allowed in Gmail. I guess, judging by the position of the entries in the array as more recent entrants, one could speculate that there's going to be an additional icon for an item that would depict a voicemail or an additional left nav. entry in Gmail which would say Voicemails. That seems to be the case with all these system entries so far and the system labels show up when you search for something. Something like this perhaps? Granted, Gmail trails Hotmail and Yahoo by a large margin when it comes to subscribers, but it'll be interesting to see if Hotmail / Yahoo open up their systems and make it free. Btw, does Microsoft have a consumer virtual PABX product? - With all that click to call infrastructure, it ought to have one. June 24 iPhone's Multi-touchI think the biggest shift that iPhone will bring about in the market place is a plethora of software applications that will leverage multi-touch. Below are some screenshots from iPhone's patent application that illustrate the context of use.
Understandably, the patent has made enough claims that they appear collectively exhaustive. Updated June 25th, 2007 My predictions based on my current understanding of the technology:
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