Category Archives: Technology

.Mac Web Gallery vs. Flickr

Two similar questions posed today on O’Reilly Mac DevCenter and Lifehacker got me thinking. Is there really a competition between .Mac Web Gallery and Flickr? Or, are they instead complementary?I gave the new .Mac Web Gallery a spin last night. It’s fast and very easy to use. Literally within minutes, I created a new event […]

Google Reader updated for the iPhone?

I am not sure when or how this happened, but it appears that Google Reader has recently been updated to detect the iPhone. Where before visiting http://reader.google.com/ on the iPhone would simply bring up the desktop reader, now it automatically redirects to Google Reader Mobile at http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/.In addition, Google Reader Mobile has now gained the […]

.Mac Wishlist

MacRumors, AppleInsider, AppleGazette, TUAW and I’m sure others are all hinting at a possible .Mac refresh to be announced at the Apple Media Event today, based on a “scheduled maintenace” outage to coincide with the event.I’m hoping to see at least some of these being announced today:

Push email for iPhone and Mail.app, hopefully using IMAP […]

iPhone - Gmail reverse halo effect

OK, for the life of me I can’t understand how iPhone’s launch caught Google Mail so unprepared.They do have a renewed love for all things Apple. Its top brass sits on Apple’s board. They’ve partnered to deliver YouTube content to AppleTV and iPhone. They’ve been into mobile applications for quite a while. So who forgot […]

Email WTF

Oh, what a clusterfuck I got by mixing the iPhone, webmail and POP access.Got me a little iPhone and hooked it up with few email accounts. Gmail, which I had and love. Yahoo! Mail Plus, because it’s the only push mail that works with the iPhone, at least for now. And a regular ol’ IMAP […]