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7 Apps And Feature Updates I Want For Android

Kevin — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:55:22 +0000

For the most part I’m very happy with my Google Android driven T-Mobile G1. The Android Market is continually growing as new free apps appear every day to fill almost any type of need. However there are a number of things still missing that I wish would be addressed and added soon. Below is my list of the top 7 features/apps that I’d like to see added soon. Hopefully some of these features/functions will be implemented in the next update release of Android call Cupcake that’s rumored to occur sometime late in January.

1. Wireless Transfer of Files - How cool would it be to share music, photos, and other files wirelessly between devices? I currently can’t do this with the bluetooth abilities of the phone.

2. Screenshot App - This would enable me to take quick screenshots of my G1 and post or share them.

3. Record Video - I believe this ability is coming soon with the next update release of Android.

4. Record Phone Calls - This would be extremely useful for archiving your conference calls and for personal reference needs. I could see an app like this selling big time, especially if the app included the ability to search through the recordings!

5. Screen Recording App - Akin to Camtasia this app would permit someone to record video footage of the G1’s screen and couple it with an external audio input to capture the narrator’s voice. A non-app alternative to this would be to port the G1’s screen to a computer monitor and record it in real time using Camtasia.

6. Install Apps On Memory Cards - Currently we are limited to installing all apps by default to the G1’s internal memory source. With a relatively a small amount of memory available, you can quickly fill it up and cause your G1 to slow. To some extent I am okay with this limitation because I can’t load my phone with tons of useless apps that I never use. However, as the Android Market grows more apps that require larger storage requirements will be added and thus the need arises.

7. Local Radio App - This may not sound like a very pressing need but I can assure you that people still listen to their local radio stations and like to stay connected locally. Using my Moto Q, I use to access TheStreamCenter and listen to my local radio stations but I can’t do that anymore using my G1. Moreover, at times when your power is out in your home and the tornado sirens go off, as they did today, local radio stations can provide you with the most up-to-date weather information that’s critical for your safety.

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How To Import And Export Music, Photos, Files Using Your T-Mobile G1

Kevin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:43:04 +0000

If you haven’t tried adding photos or your favorite songs to your new T-Mobile G1 yet, you’re in for a surprise. I tried multiple times to connect my G1 to my Mac via bluetooth or USB cable without any success. I even tried connecting to my virtual machine (Windows XP) running off of Parallels but that didn’t work either. Fortunately after a few attempts I was able to make it work using a USB connection. It totally makes sense once you’ve done it but its not at all intuitively designed.

This is what you need to do:

Connect your G1 to your computer using a USB cable
Watch the top of the screen on your G1 for a USB symbol to appear in the upper left hand corner
Tap the symbol and drag down the notification window just like you do when you get new notifications (i.e. texts, emails, etc.)
Tap on the notification that says “USB connected”
Select ‘Mount’

You can now use your G1 as an external drive and move files between your computer and your phone’s SD card. If you’re using Windows just go to My Computer and open the new Removable Disk (e.g. E or F). On the other hand if you’re using a Mac, the drive will appear on your desktop as “NO NAME”. Here you can create new folders (i.e. Music, Videos, Documents, etc.) to hold your songs, movies, photos, or documents. When you’re ready to move files between your computer and G1, just select and copy and paste them into the designated folder on your G1’s MicroSD card.

To remove your G1 in Windows, right click on the removable disk icon on the taskbar and select ‘Safely Remove Hardware’. A window will pop up with USB Mass Storage Device will appear and you just need to click on ‘Stop’. Then select ‘HTC Android Phone USB Device’ and click ‘OK’. You can now safely unplug your G1 and enjoy all your imported songs. To remove your G1 from a Mac, simply drag the ‘NO NAME’ drive on your desktop to the trash where an eject icon will appear and dismount it.

I know it all sounds like a lot to do, but it’s really simple after you do it for the first time. I also made it sound more complicated than it is by adding all the details. However, I’ve found that it’s always better to have more than enough detail rather than not enough when you’re creating a how-to article or providing instructions for something.

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5 Great Alert Tools To Monitor Your Online Reputation And Favorite Websites

Kevin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:24:04 +0000

Notify.me - This is a notification service that alerts you of any new content that’s added to an RSS feed. I’ve used Yahoo! Alerts, Yotify, and Google Alerts prior to testing and I can say without a doubt that Notify.me beats them all hands down in terms of the least amount of lag time.

Using a test blog I measured the elapsed time between the instant an article was published to the RSS feed and the actual time the notification was received from Notify.me. In three separate tests, Notify.me alerts were delivered within one to four minutes after publishing. This is extremely fast in comparison to the others listed below and why Notify.me is an excellent tool for following favorite blogs for which you are interested in commenting as well as other feed based content that is extremely time sensitive. Notify.me can be used for other things such as tracking items on eBay or Craigslist, receiving automatic notification of new job posts, following breaking new stories, and much more. Alerts can be sent to you via SMS, email, instant messaging, or via Notify.me’s own Adobe AIR application.

Yahoo! Alerts - Yahoo! Alerts permits you to set alert notifications for all sorts of content including all of the following:

Amber/Missing Children
Avatars
Breaking News
Daily News
Fantasy Sports
Farechase India
Feed / Blog
Games
Health News
Horoscope
HotJobs
Keyword News
Local News
Mail
Market Summary
Movie Recommendations
Snowfall
Sports
Stocks
The Apprentice
Traffic
Travel Destinations
Weather
Yahoo! 360

However, it is not nearly as fast to update you about new content added to an RSS feed and it usually takes nearly an hour or more to actually receive notification of such things. Thus Yahoo! Alerts maybe more helpful for things such that are not as time sensitive or for which you do not need lightening quick alerts.

Google Alerts - The same can be said about Google Alerts in that in order to receive notifications from Google about new published content, it must first be indexed by the search engine which many not occur for several hours at least. However, it can be a great asset for monitoring your online reputation or your blog’s feed. For instance, I’ve added a simple code into my RSS feed on this blog and I have an alert set that matches it so that Google Alerts will notify me any time it appears. Thus if someone ever tries to scrap or steal my feed based content and publish it as their own, I’ll be alerted of it and can easily find the culprit via Google’s excellent search engine. Other uses for Google Alerts include keeping up to date with your favorite sports team, monitoring competitors, following breaking news stories, and more.

Yotify - Another notification alerts service that can be used to simply monitor a blog for new posts or track other things such as product prices, ticket availability for events, modifications of a user’s profile on social networking sites (i.e. LinkedIn), keyword searches, and Friendfeed alerts.

TweetBeep - Permits you to establish alerts for words that appear on Twitter. You can set the alerts to occur hourly or daily and they can be based on any keywords or phrases and may be limited to certain people, places, attitudes, or whether or not the tweet includes links.

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10 Best Websites And Tools To Make Christmas Shopping, Deal Finding Easy

Kevin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:30:10 +0000

These are some favorite online shopping websites and tools for finding great Christmas gifts and discounts. These online shopping resources include price comparison search engines, cashback programs, Firefox add-ons, coupons and promotional code directories, deal websites and forums, gift card depots, and other places for finding great holiday sales and savings.

Gifts.com - This website makes shopping for that hard to buy for person a snap. It takes a unique approach to shopping for others by categorizing gifts according to personality type, age, gender, and other demographics to help you make a wise shopping decision.

PriceAdvance Firefox Add-on - This extraordinary tool runs in the background of your Firefox browser as your shopping online and displays a small pop up price comparison window from other stores when a better price is found for the item you are viewing.

RetailMeNot - A coupon, promotional code, and rebates website that makes it very easy to find great discounts for all sorts of products and services. The discounts are voted on by users according to their working status. Thus if a coupon or promotional code is no longer valid, it will be voted down and the success rate of use will be poor. Hence, great working discounts are destined to rise to the top of the list, making it quick and easy to save a few extra bucks on gifts.

Live Search Cashback - Microsoft’s Live Cashback program takes the commissioned sales it makes from merchants and passes it on to you instead of keeping it. It has also rolled this whole concept in an comparison price search engine. Thus you will always be able to not only find the best price for any gift but you’ll be able beat it with the extra cashback savings you’ll receive.

Dealighted - If you’re looking for some excellent last minute special savings and super hot deals this is the place for you. Dealighted scours the web’s most popular deal websites and forums to deliver you the creme de la creme of the best available online shopping deals.

Amazon - This is a no brainer and has to be on the list because Amazon can usually beat any price online and it does not a merchant member of the Microsoft’s Live Cashback program. Amazon also has a wealth of user reviews and other indispensibly helpful shopping information.

Shopping.com - Still one of the best shopping comparison websites around that is easy to browse and offers some great features like letting you compare different brands of products and helping your narrow your choices based on categorical specifications for a given type of product.

SkyMall - Made popular through their airline shopping catalogs, this online store offers unique and cool gifts, gadgets, and home innovations that you won’t find anywhere else.

eBay - It’s not just for auctions anymore; eBay has moved to more of fixed pricing strategy to compete with the likes of Amazon. Thus you can purchase things faster and find quick deals. This could be an excellent option for finding post Christmas deals as well since prices will be lowered and people will be trying to offload gifts they didn’t need or want.

Gift Cards - An easy go to solution for hard to buy for people or mass gift mailings. This can save you time and money while at the same time giving the recipient the flexibility to purchase a gift for his/her self from any merchant.

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How To Add Dynamic RSS Feed Signatures To Gmail With Ease

Kevin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:38:34 +0000

I’ve been looking for an easy way to add HTML based signatures to Gmail for a while now. There’s been several workarounds created using Greasemonkey scripts and the Better Gmail and Better Gmail 2 Firefox add-ons but until recently it was still quite a hassle. Yesterday, thankfully, I came across a great little gem of an add-on called Black Canvas Gmail Signatures by Jerome Dane.

Gmail Signatures permits you to automatically add HTML based signatures to your outgoing Gmail messages according to the address from which you are sending. The add-on works for both new emails and those for which your are replying or forwarding and it permits you to create as many as four unique signatures per address. You can even take this a step further and incorporate a headline animator from your Feedburner account to successfully execute a full blown dynamic RSS signature that rotates your blog titles. To do this you need only to install the Black Canvas Gmail Signatures add-on and grab the headline animator code for “Email Signatures” and drop it into to the signature placeholder.

For those of your that aren’t that familiar with Feedburner, get yourself a Google Account (they’re free) and signup for a FeedBurner account (also free) while you’re at it. If you’re using WordPress for your blogging software you’ll want to install the FeedBurner Feedsmith plugin too. FeedBurner is basically going to dress up our RSS feed and give it some extra functionality. After you’ve obtained your FeedBurner account and successfully added your default WordPress RSS feed to FeedBurner, you can install the Gmail Signatures add-on in your Firefox browser. Then restart your browser, open your Gmail account, and click on Compose and you should now see the option for adding a signature. Now go back into your FeedBurner account, click on the Publicize tab, select Headline Animator in the left hand column, and click on the “create new” link. Next, scroll down and select the “Email signature” under “Theme” and click the Activate button at the bottom of the page. Finally, at the top of the same page, select “Other (just gimme the code)” option from the drop down menu and click on the next button beside it. A window will pop up with the code that you need to copy and paste into the placeholder for your Gmail signature.

The Gmail Signatures add-on solution works with both regular Gmail and Gmail for Google Apps, or at least it did this morning when I tried it. The only limitation to this solution is the fact that you must use Firefox when sending your emails in order to have the signatures appear in your messages. If you need help troubleshooting this Firefox add-on, try contacting the Gmail Signatures creator.

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Get Unlimited Hassle Free Backups For Your PC Or Mac With Backblaze

Kevin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:08:17 +0000

Backblaze is one of simplest and easiest backup utilities that I’ve come across to date. With just launching their Windows version in February of 2008, it is somewhat of a new player in the online storage and backup solutions industry but it has already been able to successfully set itself apart from the pack. The service has received rave reviews from industry experts and has also won an award for excellence.

Last week Backblaze announced the release of their beta version for Mac, which enables them to now provide backup services for computers that run either Windows or OS X operating systems. Once installed, Backblaze will automatically start the process of uploading the contents of your hard drive to Backblaze’s secure datacenters. After completing this task BackBlaze will quitely run in the background monitoring your files for any changes and automatically update them. In the event your computer crashes, you may restore your data at anytime by downloading a ZIP file or requesting a DVD or USB drive be sent to you.

While the strength of Backblaze is its simplicity, it also comes with lots of advanced settings and features like bandwidth and file size throttling, file archiving, multiple computers per account, and file exclusion. All backed-up files are encrypted prior to sending them over an encrypted connection to be stored at the Backblaze secure data center, which is both physically and electronically protected. Backblaze offers unlimited storage and backup for just $5 per month or you can receive two months free by purchasing a one-year subscription for $50. You can also receive a free 15-day trial version by signing up now. Keep in mind that your first backup will take some time to complete given today’s upload speeds. Currently Backblaze can backup approximately 2-4 GB per day on an average internet connection. However, once you’ve backed-up that data, Backblaze will keep auto updating as needed. There is also no requirement to backup all your data prior to testing all the features and functions of Backblaze during the 15-day free trial.

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TechCrunch, Top Tech News Sites Feeling Economic Crunch

Kevin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:51:22 +0000

Lately TechCrunch has been following the effects of the economic crisis on the technology sector quite closely. Michael Arrington and his crew have been providing us with updates of the mounting numbers of tech layoffs and failing tech companies for the past month or so. Just the other day Erick Schonfeld wrote that technology related layoffs had surged past 100,000.

With so many tech layoffs and web based start-ups failing, I wondered if tech related news sites themselves may be affected. Do you think these sorts of things affect reader interest or is the tech news industry impervious to everyone else’s economic woes? My gut says that people are always going to want to follow the news and, while the current economic situation isn’t looking too great, it wouldn’t affect website traffic. Yet it also seems like there’s been less startup announcements on TechCrunch and other startup news sites lately and I’ve noticed that some have been posting more list- and hack-like postings to fill-in the gaps.

Thus perhaps, in part, less startup announcements diminish traffic by removing the media buzz that’s created by the startups, which there are less of, and the workers themselves, which have also been reduced due to all the layoffs. Furthermore, if your tech news site’s central focus is internet start-ups then I would expect it to take a greater hit in traffic versus those that cover a broader spectrum of technology related news. While this all sounds like pure speculation, I have included the actual traffic stats from Compete so you can check them out and decide for yourself.

Figure 1. November Traffic Analytics For TechCrunch, AlleyInsider, ReadWriteWeb, Arstechnica, and VentureBeat

As you can see, traffic is down across the boards in this graph for the month of November. Three out of five had experienced positive growth for the month prior and a clear upward trend in uniques is evident for most over the entire year.

Figure 2. November Traffic Analytics For GigaOM, TechMeme, Slashdot, KillerStartups, and StartupMeme

All except for KillerStartups, which experienced a nominal 0.6% increase in traffic, clearly demonstrated a drop in the number of unique visitors for this month despite consistent growth over several prior months.

Figure 3. November Traffic Analytics For TechDirt, Engadget, DownloadSquad, ValleyWag, and TradeVibes

Just another example of technology related websites experiencing declines in web traffic for the month of November

Figure 4. November Traffic Analytics For Wired, Mashable, Lifehacker, Lifehack, and Gizmodo

All of these tech related sites have been able to successfully thwart off the drop in visitor traffic that the others have experienced. Gizmodo’s main competitor, Engadget (see Figure 3), is not displayed here because it too demonstrated a drop in unique visitors (-6.1%) for the month of November.

Okay, so not everyone is experiencing the a reduction in monthly unique visitors and those that are seeing a drop in traffic aren’t affected to the same degree. Why isn’t there a more broad effect? Well, perhaps technology related sites that cover a broader range of topics are able to diversify their interests enough to defend against such vulnerabilities. We can see this for example in Wired (+22.1%), Digg (+4.6%), and CNET (+8.7%). Also, there are some tech related niche topics that appear to not be affected at all. Indeed, it seems that productivity and DIY focused sites like Lifehack, Lifehacker, and DumbLittleMan (14.8%) all grew in unique visitor traffic for the month of November.

So if there is indeed a downward trend of less readers logging on to visit these type of websites, what’s the reason? Is it because the economic decline of the tech market has yielded less startups and therefore there is less exciting news to be covered or is it because niche readers in this industry are turned off to such interests after being laid off themselves? Perhaps a simpler explanation is that laid off workers and everyone else throughout the entire U.S., regardless of their profession and online reading interests, are tightening up their wallets and dropping their ISP by choice or necessity. Another possibility is that web traffic for November is usually low anyway. Figures 5 and 6 below indicate that neither such scenario is likely given that 8 of the top 10 most popular websites in the U.S. demonstrated an increase in unique visitors for the past month.

Figure 5. November Traffic Stats For Google, Yahoo, MSN, Live, and eBay

Figure 6. November Traffic Statistics For YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia, MySpace, and AOL

Thus it does seem at least plausible that TechCrunch and other similar tech news sites, which put more of a focused effort into covering new internet startups, may be more suseptible to a loss in traffic if there are reductions in the total number of startups launching over a period of time.

It is interesting to note, however, that TechCrunch’s own network sites, TechCrunchIT (-14.3%), CrunchBase (-18.6%), and MobileCrunch (0.0%) are all experiencing either a loss in traffic or no gains at all. Meanwhile CrunchGear saw a 7.9% increase in the number of unique visitors for the same month.

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Loopt Download Now Available In Android Market For T-Mobile G1 Owners

Kevin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:27:59 +0000

Today is a glorious day for T-Mobile G1 owners, whom as of now can download the Loopt app for free from the Google Android Market and install it on their beloved phone. Loopt, a location based mobile social network, made the announcement today and as of 8 PM CST it had been downloaded between 100-500 times, received 39 comments and a 4-star average rating by its users. Loopt users are able share their location with other Loopt users on T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, Boost, Verizon, and MetroPCS.

I’ve been waiting for the ability to use Loopt since last year but it’s only been available on select phones (none of which I had at the time). I’ve just had about an hour to review it before posting this but so far it’s looking really great. The app offers all the Loopt features such as notifications when your friends are nearby, the ability to view one’s friend map and monitor traffic delays, and the ability to update your current location and status. It also permits intergration with your blog, your favorite websites, and popular online services like Twitter and Facebook.

Loopt apparently is now supported on more than 100 handsets including the iPhone and BlackBerry. Its availablity on the Android Market displays a strong vote of confidence in Android as a mobile OS platform, as Loopt is one of, if not the most dominant player in the location based social networking arena. This is all overshadowed however by this week’s earlier big news that the Open Handset Alliance, which promotes the use of the Android mobile operating system, added 14 new members included the world’s largest mobile operator, Vodafone. The addition of Loopt to the Android Market is still significant as it perhaps indicates that Android has reached its inflection point for other major mobile and online services like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter to quickly follow suit and soon offer their own Android application.

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20+ Kickass Portable USB Flash Drive Apps For Getting Things Done

Kevin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:54:31 +0000

When you don’t have your trusty laptop handy you can always rely on your thumb drive to maintain your productivity on the go, access your online accounts, securely store and backup important files, and run your favorite applications. USB flash drives not only make data portability easy, but they also provide extra privacy and security. If used correctly, self contained programs installed on your flash drive can prevent snoopy coworkers, keyloggers, and hackers from accessing your private data.

One of my favorite portable software apps is RoboForm2Go, a password manager and form filler that runs on any U3 or non-U3 based flash drive. I went ahead and upgraded to the pro version to receive the dedicated customer service and technical support and grabbed a free version of GoodSync to keep my passwords, online identities, and passcards synchronized between my laptop and flash drive. If you don’t think you need a password manager think again and check out the video below to see just how easy it is for someone to hack into an online account that has a weak password.

Your passwords should vary across different web services and they should be strengthened by comprising them of long combinations of various numbers, symbols, and a mix of upper and lower case letters. Using a single password for every online account you use is dangerous because if someone cracks it at website A, they can now access your online account at website B, C, D, etc… It is especially important to make sure your email has a very secure password since it’s the central portal to you and your personal information. By hacking into that, someone could find out which bank you use, where you shop, the type of credit cards you use, and other valuable accounts to target.

There are some really fantastic applications available now that you can store on your portable drive to access at anytime and help you keep getting things done while your on the go. Here’s the list of my personal favorite portable applications:

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition - by far the best and most flexible, safe, and secure web browser available today

OpenOffice.org Portable - suite of Microsoft Office-like apps that include a word processor, spreadsheet editor, and presentation software

PNotes Portable - digital sticky notes

Task Coach Portable - task manager to keep all your to-dos in order

SpeedCrunch Portable - a handy dandy portable algebraic calculator

Sumatra PDF Portable- simple PDF viewer

Notepad++ Portable - great text editor

GnuCash Portable - keep track of your financial expenses

FileZilla Portable - best free FTP client

Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable - wicked web editor

Lightscreen Portable - gives you the ability to take snapshots of your computer screen

Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition -Mozilla’s portable email client

Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition - calendar and task manager

Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition (Address Book) - address book

Firefox Accessibility Extension - enhances Firefox accessibility

PortableApps.com AppCompactor - compacts your portable apps without dampening their functionality

PortableApps.com Backup - backs up your portable flash drive data

PortableApps.com Menu - start menu for your flash drive programs

7-Zip Portable - for zipping and compressing files

ClamWin Portable - portable antivirus software to keep your flash drive healthy

GIMP Portable - free open source Photoshop-like image editor

Audacity Portable - excellent audio recorder and editor

VLC Media Player Portable - great media player that plays can play nearly every audio and video format available

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Gmail’s New Task List Manager: A Remember The Milk Killer?

Kevin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:50:17 +0000

It appears someone at Google finally realized that Gmail users might want a task manager integrated into their beloved webmail service. Well, all I can say is that it’s about frickin’ time. I’ve been using the Remember The Milk (RTM) Firefox add-on that fills this need as a sort of workaround for at least a year now. I’m not sure what took the Gmail workers over at Google so long to figure out this need considering Gmail is one of their best and most heavily used services but I’m very thankful it has finally been addressed.

Before you can access the new task manager, you need to activate it. You can do this by simply logging in to your Gmail account and clicking on the Gmail Labs icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Oh, make sure you are using the Newer Version and not the Old version of Gmail as you won’t be able to see it. The new Tasks feature should be at the top of the list of Gmail Lab features. You just need to enable it and then scroll down to the bottom of the page to save your settings.

To add a new task you just need to click on the Tasks link that’s located under Contacts in the left hand column. A small window will appear in the lower right hand corner where you can add, complete, rearrange, or delete your tasks. You can pop this window out and make it larger for easier viewing and minimize it for easy access as your working by clicking on the arrow key in the upper right hand corner of the task window. If you select the Actions link at the bottom of the task manager’s window you’ll see a few other commands that can be executed such as Indent, Help, Show tips, View completed tasks, etc. and in the lower right hand corner of the task window there’s small list icon that allows you to create and manage multiple task lists. The new Task feature does a few other things like like allowing you to assign emails as tasks simply by check marking them and selecting the “Add to Tasks” option in the “More Actions” feature at the top of your Inbox. You can also attach a note or a due date to your tasks by clicking on the arrow symbol to the right of the task.

Tasks for Gmail is very simple and it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles like RTM but because it’s already integrated into Gmail, easier to access, and will likely work on all browsers (not just Firefox like RTM) it should be a smashing hit. I’m now worrying about Remember The Milk and how many Gmail-RTM users will switch to the default Task manager that’s now available. I’m sure the hardcore RTM users will stay for the time being however, as the Gmail Tasks manager doesn’t display tasks in Google Calendar and they can’t be shared via email unlike the RTM solution. However, it most likely won’t take the Gmail developers long to integrate those task management features to further enhance user productivity and Gmail’s image as a gtd app.

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