Tech support website Satisfaction walks the middle ground between the extensive, but nameless, answers found on community forums and official, but not always extensive, answers from company reps. Covering webapps, gadgets, and desktop applications, Satisfaction has more than 400 companies being discussed, and some of them, including Google, Sandy, Twitter and Microsoft, have actual employees helping to answer questions and troubleshoot. If you ask a new question, Satisfaction emails you when the answer appears, or you can follow the thread via RSS. It’s not an all-in-one stop yet, but especially for help with webapps and newer programs, it’s a good place to find help beyond the FAQs.
Category: General
Round Image Corners Online with RoundPic
Rounded corners can give a photo album or personal website an elegant look, but only if you’ve downloaded the right software or learned the steps in Photoshop or the GIMP. RoundPic.com, however, does exactly what it sounds like—takes uploaded photos, gives them anti-aliased, graduated curves on the corners and lets you download them in finished form. I haven’t explored enough to know if a similar function is offered at any of the numerous other online image editing apps, but RoundPic is an easy-to-remember site with a streamlined service.
Better Gmail 2 Gets Four New Features
Firefox only: Just released an update to the Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension, which compiles our favorite Greasemonkey user scripts for the new Gmail interface into one package. The new release includes a slew of recently updated scripts, including Folders4Gmail, Spam Count Hide, a swanky disk Quota Usage Graph, and my personal favorite, a modified version of Gmail Macros that lets you map your own preferred keystrokes to mail actions.
With the Macros Sewpafly mod enabled (its name is derived from its creator), you can map keys of your choosing to a task; just hit the question mark (?), type in your preferred keys, and click the “Save Mapping” button.
Finally, I submitted Better Gmail 2 to the Mozilla Add-ons Sandbox for review. There’s no telling when they’ll get around to approving it for public downloads, but if you’ve got the time and inclination, do post a user review on the extension’s sandbox page (login required) to speed along the approval process. Once Mozilla Add-ons approves the extension (fingers crossed), Firefox 3 users will be able to install it. In the meantime, grab the download over at the extension’s homepage here at Lifehacker, and post any problems or requests in the comments.
View the Contents of a Zip File in Quick Look with Zip Quick Look
Mac OS X only: View the contents of zipped files in Leopard’s Quick Look without unzipping the archive with freeware plug-in Zip Quick Look. Just download the plug-in, drag it to
/Library/QuickLook/, and then restart Finder (right-click Finder in the Dock while holding the Option key and select Relaunch). Next time you Quick Look a zipped archive, you should get a look at the contents as well. The Zip Quick Look plug-in is freeware, Mac OS X Leopard only.
iPhone SDK already seeding to select devs?
It’s not anything more than a rumor right now, but reports are floating around claiming that “select developers” are already receiving prerelease versions of the upcoming iPhone SDK. The kit is said to already be producing native apps, and development is being compared to other sandboxed APIs like Google’s OpenSocial — apps have “clear limits” on what they can do, and interactions with the OS are mediated, presumably to avoid any security or performance issues. That jives with what Steve-O said about managing access, but again — this is all just a steamy cloud of vaporous nothing till that first app shows up in iTunes.
[Via Mac Rumors]
We new there SDK is coming to the IPHONE looks like Apple is trying to make it as quickly as possible!!
