Thursday, January 27, 2011

Google adds HTML5 Gmail and Gtalk notifications for the desktop, makes you envy Chrome users

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/google-adds-html5-gmail-and-gtalk-notifications-for-the-desktop/

Oh, come on, Google! If you're going to give us desktop notifiers for our favorite email and chat clients, you've got to play nice and let us have them on more than your own browser, right? To be fair to the Chrome maker, it's standardizing the code it's used in its new HTML5 alerts so that other browsers can soon use it too, but as of today, you'll need to use the Google-sanctioned webscape navigator if you want its sweet new pop-ups on your desktop. We gave them a quick try and they're delightfully quick, with Gtalk message alerts updating themselves to the latest one received instead of stacking up and threatening your sanity. Hit the source link to learn how to enable the new notifications.

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HTC's newest Android flagship phone revealed

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/htcs-newest-android-flagship-phone-revealed/

Why bother waiting for its official Mobile World Congress reveal in February when you can view the newest HTC flagship today? The touchscreen slate prototype (notice the serial number stamped along the bottom of the handset's face) you're looking at above matches the leaked Pocketnow render exactly including the arcing earpiece and isolated front-facing camera with chrome ring. It was just spotted by an eagle-eyed tipster while waiting for a Taipei metro system. Sorry Windows Phone 7 fans, this baby is Android through and through. And seeing it in the wild lends credence to all of the HTC devices pictured in that leak. A couple more snaps after the break.

Update: Seems our tipster might have taken these images (without attribution) from the same Mobile01 forum as the other leaked HTC.

[Thanks, LIMIX]

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HTC's newest Android flagship phone revealed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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CHART OF THE DAY: The Number One Thing Android Tablets Need To Beat The iPad (GOOG, AAPL)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-android-tablet-2011-1

What will it take for Android tablets to beat the iPad? A really good price.

That's the opinion of 1,529 developers polled by IDC. They think the price is more important than Google's forthcoming Android 3.0 operating system.

The lower the price, the more people likely to buy the tablet. The more people with a tablet, the more people to download apps. So, from a developer perspective, it makes sense.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Capture Impressive Screenshots with Shotty

Source: http://www.labnol.org/software/impressive-windows-screenshot/18506/

Shotty is an excellent screen capture program for Windows that can help you take screenshot images of the entire desktop, one of the open windows or a rectangular region of your screen.

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The program is light-weight, it sports a very minimal interface and above all, there are a couple of unique features that make this screenshot tool quite a worthwhile download.

Shotty preserves all the drop shadows and translucent glass borders that are found in certain editions of Windows 7 and Vista (also known Windows Aero). These screenshots are then saved as transparent PNGs.

The program has a unique "delayed capture" mode that is useful for capturing screenshots of program menus and other objects that otherwise disappear when a windows is highlighted.

Shotty is completely free and supports portable installation so you may even carry is on a USB stick. There's a built-in image editor that you may use to annotate screenshots or for blurring certain areas of your capture.

If you have been using the Print Screen key or the Windows Snipping tool for screen captures, it's time to replace them with Shotty. See more on screen capture.

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How to Attach Files When Using Mail Merge in Gmail

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/mail-merge-with-attachments/18561/

Mail Merge helps you send personalized letters or email messages to a large group of people with little effort. The basic content of all these messages is similar but each will have information that is specific to the recipient (like their first name and salutation).

Most web email programs don't offer mail merge but you can take the help of Google Docs to create Mail Merge in Gmail. This is a simple Google Docs spreadsheet that reads email addresses from Google Contacts and sends them personalized emails using your own Gmail account.

Mail Merge in Gmail with Attachments

The previous method didn't however support file attachments. That was limiting because if you are sending a marketing related email, you may often want to attach images or even a product brochure, say a PDF or a Word document, with your message.

Well there's a new sheet to overcome that limitation. This is courtesy Kumar Veetrag who enhanced the original Google Docs script and added support for attachments.

Attaching Files to your Email Message

To get started, upload any document or image, that you wish to include with mail merge, to your Google Docs account. Once the upload is complete, make a note of the Document ID (the string highlighted in yellow).

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9EOfg1w7YqGYjUxM1&hl=en

Now create a copy of the Mail Merge sheet in your Google Docs account. Select the cell F13, press F2 to enter edit mode and paste the Google Docs ID in this cell.

Then simply follow the steps listed in the original tutorial or watch the screencast below to complete your mail merge. This is how your final product will look like.

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