Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Organise
GO Contact Sync Keeps Google And Outlook Contacts Matched
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: GO Contact Sync is a handy little synchroniser that keeps your Google (G) and Outlook (O) contacts in line. You run it once or schedule it, and customise how it handles your data. More »
Communicate
Happy Fifth Birthday, Gmail
10:00PM Kevin Purdy | Gmail, the Google email service we’ve been writing about since, well, it seems like forever, is five years old today. And, as you might expect, we’re planning to write a post or two about the significance of what Gmail has done to the web landscape, how we’re using Gmail now and want to use it in the future, and perhaps a little peek behind the curtains with the Gmail team in Mountain View, CA. More »
Work
1:00PM Angus Kidman | NineMSN — a site co-owned by Microsoft — is one of dozens of popular Australian sites which won’t render properly in Internet Explorer 8. What gives? More »
Why Are So Many Australian Sites On The IE8 Compatibility View List?
1:00PM Angus Kidman | NineMSN — a site co-owned by Microsoft — is one of dozens of popular Australian sites which won’t render properly in Internet Explorer 8. What gives? More »
Work
Four Small And Fresh Experimental Firefox Extensions
12:00PM Kevin Purdy | It hasn’t been that long since we last rounded up the experimental Firefox extensions worth checking out. In the meantime, though, some very small helpers came along and added some clever functionality to the ‘fox. More »
Organise
11:00AM Angus Kidman | Nick over at Gizmodo points out a neat feature being rolled into the next firmware upgrade for the Foxtel iQ2 digital video recorder, which lets you automatically add 20 minutes to the recording time for scheduled programs. Given how untrustworthy the free-to-air guys are in particular, this is a super-useful development. Foxtel’s iQ2 Now Lets You Record Up To 20 Minutes After A Show’s Finished [Gizmodo AU]
Foxtel iQ2 Lets You Extend Recording Time By 20 Minutes
11:00AM Angus Kidman | Nick over at Gizmodo points out a neat feature being rolled into the next firmware upgrade for the Foxtel iQ2 digital video recorder, which lets you automatically add 20 minutes to the recording time for scheduled programs. Given how untrustworthy the free-to-air guys are in particular, this is a super-useful development. Foxtel’s iQ2 Now Lets You Record Up To 20 Minutes After A Show’s Finished [Gizmodo AU]
Fix
Hide Your HDTV In Style
9:20AM Adam Pash | Everybody’s going bigger with the move to HDTVs, but the thinner footprint of flat panel televisions has opened up all kinds of creative methods for hiding the TV out-of-site when you’re not using it. More »
Travel
9:00AM Angus Kidman | If you tried to follow our advice yesterday to set up automated points collection for your Qantas Frequent Flyer, you may have found yourself hanging on the phone for hours and still getting nowhere. Recognising that many people simply couldn’t get through as the March 31 deadline loomed, Qantas has extended the deadline — kind of. More »
Qantas Extends Deadline For Transferring Points
9:00AM Angus Kidman | If you tried to follow our advice yesterday to set up automated points collection for your Qantas Frequent Flyer, you may have found yourself hanging on the phone for hours and still getting nowhere. Recognising that many people simply couldn’t get through as the March 31 deadline loomed, Qantas has extended the deadline — kind of. More »
Work
Burn Your Purchased ITunes Movie To A DVD
8:00AM Adam Pash | Unless you’ve got an Apple TV or computer next to your TV, your purchased iTunes movies are limited to your monitor. Wired details how to burn those movies to a DVD for the bigscreen experience. More »
Work
Exhibit Transforms Your Spreadsheet Into An Interactive Web Page
7:30AM Gina Trapani | Turn a boring old spreadsheet into an interactive web-based map, timeline, or table with some simple HTML using the free, open source Exhibit project. More »
Design
