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Google “Let’s make the web faster” initiative

Robert — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:05:56 +0000

Google has posted quite interesting post on their official blog, especially for everyone in web industry. On their newly introduced Google Speed page they have published a list of best practices, tutorials, tools and advices to make web faster with help of all of us, the people involved in creating the Web. Personally I’m big fan of such initiatives as they aim to improve quality of our work and as a final effect – improve web as a whole.

Undo send in Gmail

Robert — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:41:10 +0000

The guys at Google Labs are very active lately. This time they’ve created a very useful option to Gmail – ‘Undo send‘. If you activate this feature, you will have 5 seconds after sending of each email to cancel it. Infact the email message is being hold for those 5 secs and then send.Very simple yet very helpful.

Gmail has introduced themes, at last

Robert — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:59 +0000

The only one real disadvantage of the Gmail service for me was it’s very basic design. I’m not a software aesthetic – I prefer functionality over the look, but I like when something nice does look good as well :) The fine example of this is Microsoft Money software that has great design and functionality. And yesterday in the evening, after logging in to my Gmail account I got a small pop-up that the theme support is now available as an additional Tab. At first I was thinking it is a some new Stylish extension. But then I found that at least Google team has implemented some beauty into Gmail by themselves. There are variety of themes – most of them ale light and very nice. Big advantage over Stylish is performance – f.e. using ‘Gmail Redesigned’ Stylish theme was a little unpleasant on the slower computers, but the theme itself looks great and would be warmly welcomed by me in Gmail itself. Anyway, thanks Google, you’ve made my day and please introduce a good ToDo application ! :)

Google Apps for Your Domain

Robert — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:02:22 +0000

Here You can find a suite of Google applications for (currently) small business. It looks very interesting and probably the will add Writely and Google spreadsheet to the suite sooner or later. Will it become a real competitor for Office Live / MS Office ? We will see..