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Friday, October 10
From the team that brought you Mail Goggles, here comes…Advanced IMAP Controls, a Labs feature that lets you fine-tune your Gmail IMAP experience. You can choose which labels to sync in IMAP — useful if you find your mail client choking on a big [Gmail]/All Mail folder.
Thank you, Google. A thousand times. I’ve settled on funneling all personal e-mail through MobileMe and my Ars address for work, but this is finally the control Gmail users need over IMAP folders that can bring some e-mail clients to their knees.
Watching the free “Spaceballs: The Animated Series” premiere from iTunes. Considering shooting myself, but extremely happy I didn’t pay money for this.
This is great for those times when you need to type something short in all-caps, but don’t want to activate the caps lock, or perhaps haven’t even enabled that feature (caps-lock is off by default in iPhone OS 2.0). I don’t know when this feature arrived, but it’s certainly helpful, and a great use of the iPhone’s multi-touch UI.
Wish I had a web 2.0 app that I could turn into a modern web 3.0 wonder: http://ping.fm/Dxdsw
*eBay promotion alert* We’re selling Jessi’s Sony Ericsson w850i Walkman AT&T phone. 2 days left: http://snipr.com/47xdd
Thursday, October 09
iTunes needs a “how much have I spent on all these apps?” button. You know, just in case I ever need a heart attack.
There are few things more unfortunate than string cheese that will not in fact string. Ok fine maybe there are, but this is still a bummer.
Remember the previous version of Google Reader? Before this spanktastically awesome one? Painful, isn’t it.
Did I just get to use “hella” in an Infinite Loop headline? Yes, yes I did.
Holy crap, John Hicks is going to be a Senior Designer at Opera, working on the Mac version. Heavy: holy shit! http://ping.fm/A0Stt
Wednesday, October 08
