Thursday, January 1, 2009
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Weightbot Tracks Your Weight With Pretty Graphs, Friendly Interface
6:00AM Adam Pash | iPhone/iPod touch only: If your new year goals include getting slimmer, Weightbot is here to help. The Weightbot iPhone and iPod touch application is a simple, attractive application designed to track your weight over time. As a weight-tracking tool, Weightbot stands out for a couple of reasons. To begin with, it’s got a beautiful interface. Tracking your weight isn’t a particularly fun activity, but Weightbot makes it seem pretty cool. More »
Work
Dropbox Updates Its Web Interface, Adds Drag And Drop
4:00AM Adam Pash | The free, cross-platform application Dropbox—which readers voted the best file syncing tool available—has updated its web interface, adding new and improved navigation and drag-and-drop support for all the files and folders in your Dropbox. If you’re looking for ways to put your Dropbox account to good use after the holidays, the photos section of their web interface offers a simple way to get started sharing photos with anyone, whether they use Dropbox or not. More »
Fix
Display Your Unread Message Count In The Gmail Favicon
2:00AM Adam Pash | Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon Greasemonkey user script displays your unread message count on the Gmail site favicon. If you’re not familiar with the concept of the favicon, it’s the small icon that appears next to the address bar or in the tab and helps identify which sites are open in which tab (like the little ‘lh’ that Lifehacker uses as its favicon). With this script installed, the favicon gets even more useful by showing your unread count in addition to identifying which tab holds your Gmail account. The unread number glows brighter with each new message you receive, and it maxes out at 10. The improved favicon is a perfect compliment to the previously mentioned FaviconizeTab extension, which strips all the text from tabs so all you’re left with is the favicon, but I also wouldn’t be surprised to see this incorporated in Better Gmail sometime in the future (it’s very similar to the already included Show Inbox Count First script). It’s a simple little script, but it’s a brilliant tweak. Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon is a free download, requires Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension. Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon [Userscripts.org] More »
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