Sizeasy
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I’m a visual thinker, I need to see it to understand it. I also buy a lot of gadgets and research them first. One of the goals with gadgets is to keep them small, so I need something to compare the size to visually without having to find the gadget in a store nearby. Sizeasy lets you compare dimensions using 3d boxes. It starts with a deck of cards and you can add common objects or dimensions you enter. With this I can see if that extra 0.25″ is worth the $50 more. I often see these pictures used in tech news sites for comparing new models of phones to old models.
Tags: Web Apps 2.0
Email, everywhere
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I know a lot of people out there who are stuck with the “email is safer on my computer” mentality. So tell me, when your computer explodes will you have all your email and contacts? Do both of your dual-booting operating systems give you access to the same emails? Yeah, I thought not.
Here are my top reasons for moving to web-based Gmail:
- Searching
One of the best features of Gmail is searching. There’s no waiting 20 minutes for outlook to go through the one folder you have open. You just type it and it’s all there. Labels are far more effective than folders as you can tag one email with multiple tags. - Mobility
At home, at work, on the laptop, on the cell phone – all of your email is accessible. If you’re on a different computer for whatever reason, there’s no configuring/installing an email client just to download new mail and missing everything from before. - Spam Filters
The spam filters on Gmail are the best I’ve seen yet. I’ve had maybe 4 messages in my inbox in the last month that weren’t caught. - Free, supported by non-intrusive ads
It’s completely free, and without the ugly and distracting flashing advertisements that plague yahoo and msn. There are some text ads, but they are at least relevant to the content of the email. - Anti-virus
Automatic virus checking of every email.
Maybe I have your interest now, but you don’t want to change your email address? All you have to do is turn on forwarding on your current email address, then setup Gmail to send email from your email address. Emails appear to come from the same person, but incoming messages will be delivered to Gmail. Take a look at Gmail’s Switching page.
Something else that might be holding you back from switching can be feeling disconnected from your mail, like you don’t have access to it all the time. While there was one time when some accounts were emptied by hackers stealing passwords, you can download all your email to your computer using POP access. I download my emails as a backup every week or two into outlook.
There have been rumors of Gmail offering the same service as yahoo mail where it will download email from external pop3 accounts. This would be useful when forwarding is unavailable, as is sometimes the case.
If you need an invitation to Gmail, just leave a comment.
Tags: gmail, Web, Web Apps 2.0
Mouseover DOM Inspector v2.0
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This is probably the easiest DOM inspector, as it works in both Firefox and IE.
