07 Oct 08 With Google Chrome Mailer Set Your Default Mail Program to Gmail

New programs and ideas are coming about everyday for Google Chrome.  Today, I came across Google Chrome Mailer.  We live in a world of desktop apps such as Outlook or Thunrderbird as our default email programs, but there are some people out there who rely on GMail for the one and only email program.  So, what happens for those people when they click on email address on the web or in a PDF / Word document?  The default mailer will pop up of course.  For those people though using GMail as their sole email program this has to iratate the crap out of them.  With Google Chrome Mailer though, this changes the playing field!  

The whole basis and purpose of Google Chrome Mailer is to set the default windows mailer application to GMail.  No more Outlook or Outlook Express popping up on you.  No more copying and pasting the email address into GMail.  Google Chrome Mailer automaticaly does this for you.  Very sweet very nice.  I am glad to see this program coming aboard.  

Google Chrome Mailer has been tested and is working under Windows XP Pro and Vista.  It would be nice to see this app ported to Mono 2.0 for cross platform unification, but I am not going to complain too much!

Tags: google chrome mailer

03 Oct 08 New Google Chrome Dev version 0.3.154.0 Released

30 Sep 08 Notepad 2008

If you want to get me started on my soap box, there is no better way than to bring up Microsoft to me.  So, be warned this post is pretty much a rant upon rants about my favorite rant topic: Microsoft.

So here is how the rant is going to go down.  Most of us know in Office 2007 the wonderful Microcrap decided to change the user interface (aka UI) of the applications within Office.  MS decided to call this interface change something ribbon, something another.  All I know is it sucks big time!!  I have many people tell me they really dislike it and doesn’t make sense, but what are these people to do?  There is nothing they can do.  It is the latest version of the Office suite and there is nothing out in the mainstream to takes it place.  This is the craziest thing I have ever heard of.  I am just one guy with this opinion and I am sure MS has some logic behind it I will never understand.  I am sure it has something to do with trying to bring about change and have people totally rethink how they think about office applications.  Am I right here?  MS is trying to pave the way to being different and ahead of the curve here to stay in the game.  Ok, alright I can see that and I can understand it.  I think they have gone WAY too far this time.

Notepad is one of the applications I use the most in good ole Winders.  It is simple.  It loads fast and there is no smart spell checker to tell me I misspelled MicroCrap.  I think notepad is the createst HTML editor besides vi and so when I came across this article at LifeHacker for the new notepadd 2008 and how MS had updated it to include the stupid freakin ribbon interface update I was outraged.  Aren’t you?  This is just stupid!!  Why in the world do I need to change my font face in notepad.  That is what wordpad is for.  This is yet another reason why I really really dislike Microsoft.  They want to make my life better by giving me more and I want less.

Thanks I feel better now.

Tags: microcrap

30 Sep 08 Mobile Applications Are The Next Gold Rush

 

Bubble version 1.0 came and went with a bang.  There are still a few top contenders out there such as Amazon.com, eBay.com and few others but many companies came and went without a trace.  Kinda reminds of the day of when 80’s hair bands were the shit.

 

We are currently in the midst of Bubble version 2.0 along with the tag line of Web 2.0.  With the state of the economy and money becoming harder and harder to come by this bubble is about to burst any minute.  I wonder who will survive and who will die.  Will we even hear of the ones who died?  Were there some good ideas out there?  I am sure there are, but will not be able to make it up for air.  I wonder what will happen to companies like Craigslist, wikipedia, and digg?  I am sure most of those will be around, but especially digg I think might run into some problems.  Are the making money yet?  Didn’t they just get another round of money?  My personal opinion is if they don’t get bought out soon, they will become a victim of Bubble V 2.0.

This leads up to the Bubble V 3 and wondering what it is going to look like.  With mobile phone applications just now starting to hit the market, I really think there is going to be some major VC money put into this arena.  From a business model, it makes a whole lot more sense than web 2.0 websites.  People will actually pay $5 - $20 for a decent app on their phone and the apps coming out right now are geared toward the home casual user.  The real money is in the enterprise sector.  If a company can create an app or apps for the iPhone, Blackberry and Android that will help the enterprise for X, then that company is slotted to really black gold, Texas T.

With the next gold rush being in the mobile application market, who out there is thinking in these realms?  I haven’t heard of anyone.  Have you?  I am keeping my ears open, because the company who feels this gap will become the next (I hate to say it) Microsoft and Google. What are your thoughts?  Sound off in the comments and let me know.

Tags: android, blackberry, iphone

25 Sep 08 A new version of Google Chrome dev branch

Tags: Google Chrome

25 Sep 08 Absolut Los Angeles Vodka, my favorite alcohol here as of late

About a month ago, I went to the liquor store to pick up something to drink for the night and noticed this new bottle of vodka from absolut.  I was game for trying something and let me say I am soooo glad I did.  I am currently on my 3rd bottle and it is almost gone.  I think I am going to cry when I can’t get this limited edition anymore.  I wish I knew when it was going to be gone.  I would buy 10 bottles just to stock up.

I have the Los Angeles Absolut Vodka to really be good with just cranberry juice and I have to say it is really good in Long Island Ice Teas as well.  Here is a link to absolut’s website to get some more recipes.

You need to really try this out for yourself!!! I hope you enjoy and be sure to tell me what you thought and any recipes you might have for it!!!

Tags: absolut vodka

25 Sep 08 Sarah Palin, have you listened to yourself speak?

There is really nothing much I need to need to say.  Just listen for yourself.

Watch CBS Videos Online

Here is my favorite part of the interview.

Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It’s funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don’t know, you know … reporters.

Couric: Mocked?

Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.

Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.

Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…

Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.

So who are you going to vote for???

Tags: sarah palin

18 Sep 08 Is the Blackberry Bold Really Going To Get Delayed Yet Again…..

Ok, so I had my 1 week encounter with the iPhone and was really excited to hear the Blackberry Bold was coming out the end of August.  Sweet!!  Then the Bold got pushed back to October.  Ok, I guess I can wait a little longer.  So, as you are well aware it is almost the end of September.  After September comes the first of October and that means I get my new Bold here pretty soon.  Right?

Wrong!!

It is now looking like the Bold will not get released until sometime in November.  GRRRRRRR!!!!

I might end up moving to Verizon and getting the Blackberry Storm instead at this point.

Come on RIM get your shit together and prove you still have the best portable phone out there!!!

17 Sep 08 Formarks Bookmarks and the iPhone

 

I came across this today and I was like, yup this was something that was needed for the iPhone.  During my 1 week trial of the iPhone I was wishing I could sync my bookmarks from my desktop to the iPhone, but I couldn’t.  Looking at O-Marks though, this is very doing!!!  I am glad to see this happening for the iPhone.  

When you think about the iPhone is more of a computing platform / mobile laptop / phone.  I have been a blackbery user for many years and still a very happy blackberry user.  I gave up the iPhone due to really sucky battery usage.  Yes, I know you can turn things off to get better battery life, but I shouldn’t have to turn things off.  I will write more about this rant some other day…..

Seriously though I see O-Marks and I wonder if RIM will ever allow some more openness to happen with the Blackberry platform.  I talked with the developer of TwitterBerry and he had to sign an NDA with RIM.  WTF!!!!  Really I want more apps for my crackberry now, because there are a shitload of apps for the iPhone and I want just a few apps here and there to really make my life much more mobile.  

Good job O-Marks!!!  Here is to hoping you will work on the blackberry sometime in the next next 50 years…..

Tags: o_marks iphone blackberry cell phone

16 Sep 08 What the hell is going on with the Blackberry Storm

 

Ok, so I have been reading details the last couple of days about the Blackberry storm and I have been getting excited in a way a guy does about new gadgets….  

If you don’t know the Blackberry Storm is only going to be available from Verizon (which really sucks for me I use AT&T aka Cingular)  and is the first realease of the touch screen Blackberry in response to the popular iPhone.  

Getting back on topic, for a minute or two.  Verizon totally was launching this product, there was even a link to a page on the Verizon site, but it is broken and no longer there.  I am not longer excited in the way a guy gets excited about a new gadget anymore.  

So here I sit here wondering what is going to happen the next couple of days with Storm.  I hope it still comes out.  It would really be nice if it came to AT&T then I might not get the Blackberry Bold, but I just might have to settle for the Bold right now.  Anyway, isn’t it better to get version 2 of something than version 1.  Well, that is the mentally I used to use for all of the MicroCrap products.  Wait at least until service pack 1 unti you buy the product.  

Oh, yes I did steal this picture from the Boy Genius Report.  The source for all things Black/Crackberry!!!

Tags: blackberry, phones