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.
Hot Image Your PC’s Hard Drive with DriveImage XML
You don’t need a complicated boot CD or expensive software to create a restorable system disk image for your PC: free utility DriveImage XML can save a full, working snapshot of your Windows hard drive while you work on it. (That’s hot.) When your PC crashes and burns or just slows down over time, the best insurance you can have is a mirror image of your operating system, complete with drivers, user settings, software applications, and documents in one place. A while back we covered how to partition and image your Windows hard drive using the Linux-based System Recovery Boot CD, a process that involves command line work, disk-burning, rebooting, and video driver wrangling. With DiskImage XML, imaging your PC’s hard drive is a matter of a few clicks, no reboots required. Let’s check it out.
Go check out the full article on DriveImage XML, I actually like this article and how they talk about making backukps!!
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!!
