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Gmail
12:55AM Gina Trapani | None of this will be new to power Gmailers, but Wired offers a nice howto on getting the most out of Gmail. More »
Manage All Your Social Networks via Email
12:03AM Gina Trapani | PR guy Steve Rubel uses his Gmail account to interact with all his favourite social networking apps (like Twitter and Facebook.) Using email settings and some feed trickery, Rubel doesn’t have to go to those sites to get or post updates—it all happens in his inbox. The other day we posted about Fuser, the single inbox for your social networking messages, but Rubel’s method uses the inbox you’re already in every day to manage your online presence. Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a Social Network Hub [Micro Persuasion] More »Search wars
10:55PM Gina Trapani | In an attempt to catch up to Google, Microsoft will be rolling out improvements to their Live.com web search engine over the coming weeks. More »
How to use your Wiimote as a Lightsaber
1:15PM Sarah Stokely | I’ve been saving this one for “unproductivity Friday” but I’ve been squeeing about it for a couple of days now…. We’re finally getting the game which will put Nintendo’s Wii to the use which all Star Wars nerds have been dreaming off since the console came out… Lightsaber duelling.
I dont’ buy a lot of games, and I certainly don’t buy games “sight unseen” but I’ll be making an exception for this one. :)
LucasArts unleashes the Force on the Wii [Kotaku] More » 
Top 10 Firefox Extension-free Tabbed Browsing Techniques
2:00AM Gina Trapani | Sure we love our Tab Mix Plus, but there’s a ton of tabbed browsing features baked right into Firefox that don’t necessitate the extra baggage of an extension. Power web surfers need close control of the dozens of tabs they chew through in a day. From extensive keyboard shortcuts to configuration tweaks to mouse manipulation, today we’ve got our top 10 favourite Firefox extension-free tabbed browsing tips. More »
Yahoo Mail Innovates, Gmail Stagnates
11:00AM Adam Pash | Less than two years after their beta release, Yahoo Mail has begun rolling out of beta after releasing an onslaught of innovative feature improvements along the way. On the other hand, a whopping three years into their beta release, Gmail remains one of the most popular but stagnant web-based beta email apps around—and most of Gmail’s innovation since its release has come in the form of third-party hacks and extensions. The short of it: Google makes a great beta, but with Gmail they’ve been much too slow to actually take the application to the next level. Let’s take a look at some of Yahoo Mail’s killer out-of-the-box features in comparison to what Gmail is offering. More »
Get Your Halo 3… Lingerie?
10:55AM Lifehacker US Edition | We’ve all been caught in the tsunami of Halo 3 hype, and it continues to flood us with no floaties in sight. If it’s not clothing, it’s a branded beverage, or a racing car, or even fancy toys. One would think with this diverse range of stuff that Microsoft’s marketing department simply went berko one day and slapped the words ‘Halo 3′ onto anything they could sell. Well, it’s good to know this is not necessarily true. This Reuters story detailing Microsoft’s Halo 3 marketing bonanza mentions a few oddities that never saw the ink of the giant branding machine. Items that did not make the cut were a “Halo”-themed lottery ticket, lingerie modeled after a female hologram character and toy guns based [on] the game’s weapons. Lingerie? It may not have sold well, but I wouldn’t have ruled it out entirely… “Halo” no longer just a game for Microsoft [Reuters] More »Master Chief Performs Ballet
10:00AM Kyle Pott | On September 26th at the Berwaldhallen concert hall in Stockholm Sweden, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will play an interepretation of Martin O´Donnells and Michael Salvatoris’s Halo music, the rock band The Backyard Babies will play Halo-inspired music, a Swedish film director’s Halo machinima film will be shown, and dancers from the Royal Swedish Ballet will perform a Halo interpretive dance, with Master Chief dancing along. As you can see in the video, a lot of work has gone into making sure old MC can keep up with the ballet company, and put in context the video isn’t nearly as disturbing as if I had just dropped it in your laps and said, “Here, he dances”. In retrospect, I probably should have done just that. Oh well, hindsight and all that. For more details on the Halo Concert event, visit HaloConcert.com. More »
