Google apps improved, explained
Posted by Jacque on April 24th, 2007
Download of the Day: Better Gmail 0.4 (Firefox)
Gina Trapani continues fast-paced upgrading of Better Gmail, a free download which works with and wherever Firefox does. Version 0.4 “includes the Air Skin in addition to Super Clean and sports a re-vamped, tabbed options dialog. Update an already-installed version by going to Firefox’s Tools menu, Add-ons, and hitting the Find Updates button.”
Gmail Attachments
Google Operating System blog explains how Gmail handles attachments and gives some great tips, including how to upload files using a drag and drop Firefox extension.
“Google offers you the option to view online a lot of file types: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint files, PDF, RTF and even edit Word and Excel files using Google Docs. This is a simple way to convert all these file types to HTML. You can also listen to MP3 files directly from Gmail.” [via Lifehacer]
Open Google Notebook in the Firefox sidebar
Mitchelaneous brings us a way to open Google Notebook in the Firefox sidebar. It makes possible a full notetaking application that is larger than Google’s Notebook widget from their Personalized Homepage and opens and shuts quickly. [via Lifehacker]
Announcing the Google AJAX Feed API
In case you missed it, Google has launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that takes the pain out of developing mashups in JavaScript. “Now you can mash up feeds using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.”