Gmail Priority Inbox (Beta)
Google just launched Gmail Priority Inbox (Beta). At first it seemed like Gmail’s new Priority Inbox wouldn’t be of much help to me since I have already set tons of filters that help me sort my incoming emails out into folders, skipping inbox, etc… But I had to try it out anyway, just out of curiosity. [...]
Gmail’s New Look
Google made my day again this morning when I discovered the small (but good) changes to the Gmail interface. Opening up my Gmail this morning, I saw the “new look” announcement, as you probably have (changes aren’t always rolled out at the same time depending on your geographic zone). I immediately followed the “what’s new” link [...]
Google’s new interface
Being into Web Design myself, I always get excited when some page I visit on a daily basis, gets a facelift. As far as I can remember, I don’t think I’ve ever seen much change in Google‘s interface. But in the last couple of days, Google treated us among other little details, with a new search [...]
Google goggles
I just ran through that video explaining the principles of Google’s “visual search app” called Google goggles to be run on their own Android phone Operating System. The video sums it up pretty well: through it’s camera, Google goggles transforms your smart phone into a hand-held Optical Character Recognition device. But more than just a simple OCR, [...]
Google Chrome speed tests
Have you seen this viral video “scientifically” demonstrating the rendering speed of the Google Chrome browser? If you can’t get enough, here’s the making of. It’s pretty funny to read all the comments underneath the video. I agree certain people might get confused when it comes to the speed of their internet browser. People should [...]
Russian Spam
They just keep coming and coming… Within the last 2 weeks, I’ve literally had tons of russian spam comments on my WordPress blog. It’s been triggered by that post I did about that Adobe Air application called Skimmer (it might mean something in russian). I know spamming through blog comments is common but what surprises me [...]
Skimmer
Skimmer is a brilliant free desktop application (Mac and PC) from a company called Fallon, that allows you to view on a single page, feeds from your online social services (Twitter, Facebook, Flikr, YouTube and Blogger) within a gorgeous design. Skimmer runs on Adobe Air, right from your desktop. Can be viewed in a normal window, [...]
AUDI in PlayStation Home
“AUDI Space” will launch tomorrow on December 17th, inside PlayStation® Home, on PlayStation®3. It’s a perfect Marketing opportunity for AUDI, promoting their products, building the brand among PlayStation® users. As this trailer shows, there’s an in-game mini-game called Virtual run featurning the gorgeous e-tron R8, an electric prototype from AUDI. I like this kind of clever [...]
Telmex ISP
I’m glad we chose Telmex as our Internet Service Provider. We weren’t sure which one to choose since there are many offers here in Colombia, as there are everywhere. What made me choose Telmex over the competition is that they were the only one to propose speeds that fast (as fast as 8Megs). It’s not as [...]
Google Chrome WTF?!?
After litterally waiting for years, Google finally launches a Beta version of Chrome for Mac. Hurray! As a web-designer, I’m always interested in new browsers and I’ve been using the Windows‘ version of Google Chrome for a while back in my office time in London. After waiting all this time, I must admit I lost [...]
Blogstar.TV
My friend Oli has been living in China for about 2 years now. He’s been running this blog for years now at djod.co.uk, wich is now also a Shangai-oriented blog. Not only talking about Technology and other News from the Web world but also about Food and Life over there, in Shangai. In addition to this [...]
Google Wave invitations
As a Google Wave preview user, Google Wave gave me a bunch of invitations to send, end of October. They gave me 6 more a couple of days ago. I sent some to my friends but most people haven’t even heard of it or just aren’t interested. So, if you are interested and would like [...]
Facebook privacy settings
Facebook‘s founder Mark Zuckerberg recently sent a message through Facebook‘s interface to advise us of an upcoming change in the Network System, regarding user’s privacy. Due to the ongoing success of Facebook, the old Network system‘s no longer relevant due to the size of those networks. Therefore, they’re building this new system that’s going to allow us [...]
Gmail Default Text Styling
A nice new feature in Gmail Labs: the Default Text Styling, iI you get bored of the standard black on white text. Once logged into Gmail, you need to into Settings, then in the Labs tab (assuming you already activated Labs) and enable Default Text Styling from the list of available Labs features. Then you [...]
YouTube Channel customization
It’s only a few days ago, that I had to create for the first time, a YouTube account for one of my clients (Banana Moon). There is this new channel design BETA, everybody seem to complain about, because they were forced into this new version without prior notice or agreement and lost all their previous [...]
BRAND NEW
How could I not come across this website called BRAND NEW: Opinions on Corporate and Brand Identity Work sooner? I was looking for infos about PlayStation®3‘s new PS3 logo when I found this article that drew my attention: I just love Logos, Branding and Identity and I like the way BRAND NEW does an historical review [...]
CMS Award for WordPress
I just read WordPress won a CMS Award: The Overall Best Open Source CMS at the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. That conforts me in choosing WordPress as my prefered CMS solution, over Drupal and Joomla. As a web Designer who does not know anything about PHP or any other “real” language, I find WordPress highly [...]
PS3 / Facebook integration
I noticed with the latest Playstation®3 firmware update (3.10) a few days ago, that there was a Facebook logo in the Account Management menu. I went straight to it, to see what the h*ll that Facebook icon is doing here, in my PS3 interface. It says it’s supposed to link your PlayStation account to your Facebook account to [...]
Mail Chimp
We did a lot of email marketing campaigns in the company I used to work for in London but I was only in charge of the design and never had to worry about how it’s being sent. It’s only until recently that I needed to search for an e-marketing tool for one onf my clients. There [...]
Google Wave preview
I finally got my Google Wave (preview) account activated a couple of days ago. A friend of a friend was kind enough to offer me his last invitation (out of 20). To be honest, so far it’s kind of hard to test with so few people in my Google Wave contacts. We need to wait [...]
