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Transform Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center
micropersuasion.com — Unleash the power of Gmail.
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- sysoprock, on 10/12/2007, -8/+47Transform Gmail Into The Database For Your Steve Ballmer Photo Album
He's soooooo dreamy.- TOTALineptitude, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33As much as I want to read that article, I simply can't do it with that tosser's photo in the right column.
- bradford, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Is that lens flare coming from his forehead? o_O
- melophobia07, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13@totalineptitude
I just adblocked the image. Much better and easier to read the article that way - oc12, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Digg me down, since there is no ubuntu version.
- shodanx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0oh, so now we're doing robot chicken archie quotes ?
my god man, get a writer !
;) - expatriot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Thank you, Adblock!
- Rounin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The Feng Shui in Balmer's office is all wrong. All wrong!
- TOTALineptitude, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33As much as I want to read that article, I simply can't do it with that tosser's photo in the right column.
- alpinestarless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20the question is WHY ?
- outhouseinput, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Exactly. It's like using a Rube Goldberg device to find out the latest stock price of GOOG...might as well muster up the courage to type in finance.yahoo.com...
- ubuwalker31, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@outhouse:
go to yubnub.org and type: gfi goog - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Even better.. just go to google and search for "GOOG". Instant quote, graph, etc.
- CrackHappy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12This really seems silly to me. Perverting a technology like this might make sense to some people, but come on, there are so many other ways you can do the same thing without having to do bizarre things like connecting different services just because you can.
- k3vin187, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7i agree and I am more comfortable using other services but some people are just comfortable with gmail and all google apps
- k3vin187, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2under 50 diggs and on the front page... he didn't touch on the mobile ease of use and capabilities
- nhassan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2apparently, i used over 50% of my space
You are currently using 1884 MB (66%) of your 2822 MB. - Flummoxer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49I already have my own "personal nerve center." It's called a brain.
- ihaveplans, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Personal nerve center"? "Life hack"? This guy needs to turn his computer off for a few hours.
- Sepeteus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4My personal nerve center is located below my waistline.
- fkr2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sorry, try as I might I just can't bring myself to unlease the "power" of an email service with more hype than differences.
Virtually any decent web or desktop email application allows you to "tap into the power" the article describes.
The only exceptions are emailing yourself images and urls during your browsing (back in the old days we'd use a "book-mark" for that stuff), and using Google Talk to interact with a 3rd party service. Not sure how that harnesses the power of gmail exactly since other companies are kind of responsible for that effort (backpackit and rmilk).- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5agreed. whatever happened to using bookmarks and apps on your computer?
- elfprince13, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3id rather just use my laptop though.
besides non of this is hidden features
ill skip the digg. - chipwar, on 10/12/2007, -22/+7***** Google.
- abbott75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Most people here would love to ;)
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Anyone read Google's EULA for their Picasa Web Albums?
I don't trust Google after reading that agreement. - Spiritcatcher, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4Google and Firefox are in cahoots. Gmail works better on Internet Explorer. I think I'll forego putting all my eggs in any of Mozillas' or Googles' baskets.
- chipwar, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Who the hell is burying anti-Google stuff?
You people are psycho!- Spiritcatcher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think the Google people must be evangelicals.
- chipwar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Google is the Vatican of the New World Oder
- Character0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i love using google apps, but I realized last week that I can't possibly trust google for all my computing needs. I had my account disabled 4 times in last 10ish days. It put my world on tilt because I couldn't access my primary account or my schedule (a big problem since I'm applying to study abroad), because apparently I was "spamming" from my personal account. And even when I changed my password if there were the slightest chance that someone had hi-jacked my account, it was still disabled for a second time the next day.
I love google, but there is still a lack of reliability that other avenues easily provide. - BitBurner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did anyone else expect Balmer to have a bigger office? I think my office is bigger than that.
- Mindsai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I use dDisk on my mac. It turns my gmail account into an ftp/online storage. It has come in handy when I forget my flash drive.
http://gdisk.sourceforge.net/ - oc12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did you see the photo where Balmer face is like 3 inches from the monitor. No wonder people still use 800x600.
Digg me down, but the truth is that they should change the rez to 1024x768 as default.- Taikun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"They" already have changed it.
In Vista, it detects the native screen resolution of your monitor and defaults to that. My media center set itself to 1920x1080 when it detected the TV I had it hooked to via DVI.
- Taikun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"They" already have changed it.
- oc12, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Is there any software to make my gmail into a ftp/online storage for my Linux machine? I like to back up my p0rn images.
- Scarblac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS
- zmigliozzi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Can you tell me something I haven't been doing for the past 2 yrs?
- mrclarke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what's with the shape of that guy's head?
- PicklePower, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But doesn't Gmail's EULA disallow using Gmail strictly for file storage?
- Scott2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Did this title make anyone else cringe?
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I do not need another nerve center. I'm have enough problems with the one I've got.
- Hidama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Welcome to Google Brain, how may we assist you?
- IllBeBack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We are the Google. You will be assimilated.
- Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sorry, I already have a *****!
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4one thing i don't like is how google keeps everything behind a single username and password. gmail, gchat, gdocs, adsense, analytics, google checkout, google domain services.. it's a lot to lose if someone hacks your account.
i hope they come up with a stronger way to tie users to their accounts. i'd like to be able to lock my password so that it can only be changed if they robocall my cellphone and ask for a pin code to verify it's actually me.- PicklePower, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That, actually, doesn't seem like that bad of an idea....someone e-mail it to them...
- Walkboss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0E-mail it to them, eh? Good luck... http://www.cangooglehearme.com
- nynexla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Gmail eventually will house your soul. Over 1 Million Souls and Counting
- quanta88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The one thing I wanted to read about - how to use Gmail to email entries to my Movabletype blog - and he doesn't elaborate on how to do it! MT doesn't have any default "moblogging tools".
- alman1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0my gmail account was disabled by google too, i have no idea why
i am happy i did not make it my nerve center, how would i be now... - Amything, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought RSS to Gtalk sounded interesting. However a perl script which feeds Twitter which then sends to Gtalk sound rather far fetched. Google "RSS to Gtalk" and came up with this http://rasasa.com/
- xenzo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Or you could use Exchange 2007. Much better. Web based application, even Google's will always lack to immersivness of their desktop counterparts.
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