Firefox with Greasemonkey: If the upgrade to the new version of Gmail made you leave your HTML signatures behind, you’re in luck. The Gmail 2.0 Multiple HTML Signatures Greasemonkey user script (wow, that’s a mouthful) can associate rich text signatures to individual addresses in Gmail, and include them above the quoted text in replies. Unfortunately the user script requires that you edit its source to set up your sigs: once it’s installed, in Greasemonkey’s Manage Scripts dialog, hit the Edit button. In the area labeled “Setup/Configuration,” enter your email address(es), and your signature markup. Use the pre-filled examples to get started. Because this script requires hand source-editing, it’ll take some work to get it implemented in Better Gmail 2, but it’s on the roadmap. The Multiple HTML Signatures user script is a free download that works with Greasemonkey in Firefox.
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Find Popular Google Reader Shared Items with ReadBurner
Web site ReadBurner aggregates popular Google Reader Shared Items, turning Google Reader sharing into an action similar to bookmarking a page on Del.icio.us or voting for an article on Digg. Sure you can already share your favorite news items with friends, but by adding your shared items URL to ReadBurner, sharing feeds will also give that link some juice on ReadBurner—so it’s like a simple way to contribute to a social bookmarking service without really adding a step to your bookmarking. So far the site’s fairly young, but with enough users it really shows promise.
I saw this on Life Hacker and thought people would like to know about this little way to social bookmark on Google Reader!!
Listen to Music and Playlists from Gmail with Gspace
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Store and manage music with all those extra gigabytes in your Gmail account with previously mentioned Gmail File Space extension, now known simply as Gspace. Just install the extension, upload some music, and then enter Player mode. From there you can create playlists from the music you’ve uploaded and play them in the embedded flash player. It’s a bit of a hassle setting Flash to play files from Gmail (you have to change your Global Flash settings), but if you jump through the hoops it’s pretty cool to be able to store music and build playlists from your Gmail account.
Zoho Suite vs Google Docs
Slowly you’ve been moving the work you used to do in desktop applications online, and you’ve got two major choices to do that: Google Apps or Zoho’s Office Suite. Both the big G and the little Z offer completely browser-based office applications like a word processor and spreadsheet, as well as communication tools like chat and email, as well as collaboration tools like project managers and wiki’s. But the business-oriented Zoho and the consumer-oriented Google applications differ a little bit in offerings, and probably a whole lot when it comes to active users. After the jump, we compare Zoho and Google’s current webapp offerings and you get the chance to pick your poison.
Every time we visit Zoho, we’re impressed by the wide range of available applications, and their depth of features. So we talked to Raju Vegesna at Zoho, who gave us a quick rundown of what Google’s got, and what Zoho’s got. Most applications have equivalents, and some only Zoho has, and some only Google has, and some seem imminent based on recent acquisitions. Here’s a table.
It tells you in a table which stuff you can do and what you can not do!! I thought it was interesting!!
Manage Multiple Remote Desktop Connections with mRemote
Windows only: Connect to and manage multiple remote desktop connections—supporting RDP, VNC, SSH2, and Telnet protocols—in a friendly tabbed interface with free, open source application mRemote. While you could run multiple instances of the Windows Remote Desktop application along with your other remote connections, mRemote allows you to connect to and manage them all from one place without cluttering up your taskbar or running several different applications. Whether you’re controlling your home computer on-the-go with VNC, you prefer Windows Remote Desktop connections (RDP), or you regularly use an SSH2 or even Telnet connections, mRemote is the perfect tool to manage and connect to them all. mRemote is free, Windows only.
Nice little program for when you have more than two machines and need to get on both.
