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Here is a good spot to farm in wow (world of warcraft), everyone’s favorite online game.

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Apple Mac Pro users rejoice! Some graphics love is coming.

Apple ships Mac Pro graphics upgrade kit: “Apple ships NVidia GeForce 8800GT (1st Generation) Graphics Upgrade Kit
for Mac Pro in the US

Apple has introduced a new graphics upgrade kit for Mac Pro users, the
NVidia GeForce 8800GT (1st Generation) Graphics Upgrade Kit, though it’s
currently only available through Apple’s US store.

(Via Macworld UK.)

Very nice news…

Palm has announced that an update to the Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system will be available for Treo 750 smartphone customers around the world later this year. The Treo 750 is available from carriers in the United States, Europe and Asia and remains a key part of Palm’s international expansion strategy to make Treo smartphones available to more customers. For Cingular/AT&T customers, the update also will facilitate High-speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) capability – allowing faster data-download speeds on 3G/UMTS/HSDPA networks.

“Palm continues to work closely with Microsoft to maximize the benefits of Windows Mobile and to deliver the best mobile experience to Treo customers,” said Joe Fabris, director of wireless solutions at Palm, Inc. “Our hallmark Palm experience combined with the benefits of Windows Mobile 6 on the Treo 750 will continue to deliver a great productivity tool for businesses across the country and around the world.”

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Web worker daily has some nice tips on skinning popular websites. I use the gmail and google reader one and could not be happier.

“Sites like Gmail, Google Reader and del.icio.us
are essential, functional and extensible. We live in them. But
aesthetically, they don’t win raves out of the box. Thank goodness a
web application’s look & feel is only skin deep. With a few add-ons
and tweaks, it’s easy to completely change the browsing experience for
popular, yet not-so-easy-on-the-eye sites.

You use Firefox, Safari or Camino as your default browser, right? Of course you do. So read on.”

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“Google Spreadsheets, which brings Excel-like number crunching to your browser, has added chart capabilities.

To create a chart from an existing spreadsheet, just click the Add Chart icon (which resembles a little pie chart, natch). Your chart choices include columns, bars, lines, pie, and scatter, each with a handful of sub-types (such as 2D and 3D). You can specify what range of data to include in the chart and add labels and a legend. Plus, you can export charts in PNG format. In short, it’s a basic, easy-to-use charting module that’s sure to delight Google Spreadsheets users who’ve been pining for this feature. —Rick Broida”

Nice!!

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This has made my day! Just as I move accross to google reader to give it a spin. This skin pops up to turn it into a good looking mac app.

“That’s why I like this theme by Hicksdesign.
It will work with Firefox, Camino, Safari, Opera and Omniweb and looks
great. The “add a subscription” window even has a nice, smoky
transparency.

Please note, as the author does, that Google could
change the code of Reader at any time, causing you trouble if you’re
using this theme. With that in mind, try it out! It looks really good.
While you’re at it, why not give Bloglines a Mac Makeover, too?”

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Google will shortly release an update to their documents and spreadsheets app, otherwise known as google docs. It will allow presentation sharing and callaboration sharing (will be interesting to see how this is implemented).

“Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long as we could, but to be
honest, we’ve been dying to tell you about the bun we’ve got in the
oven. We’ll soon be welcoming a new addition to the Google Docs &
Spreadsheets family: presentations.”

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ouch!

They say all publicity is good publicity but this has made it to digg.. and I think I wouldn’t like what is going around if I was this developer.

“My RSS newsreader of choice was NewsFire. It’s a great, polished product. Despite a minor annoyance with the trial version, I slapped down my credit-card for a full version of the software around two years ago, and have been incredibly happy with it since. I can’t put my finger on the reason, but whenever I subscribe to feeds in NetNewsWire or Safari RSS I end up with thousands of unread posts in my less-important feeds, but with NewsFire I’m always on top of my subscriptions.:

the registration system for NewsFire is a bit weird. There’s no license key to lose. To activate the full version of the application you just type in your email address, and it gets verified against some central licence server.

This was all well and good until the last time I reinstalled OS X on my MacBook. When it came time to re-register NewsFire, I was told that my email address was not valid. I sent off a quick support mail to NewsFire’s author, David Watanabe, and got the following reply:

While you may now activate your software again, the evidence suggests that you’ve activated your single-user license from a suspiciously wide variety of locations. An explanation would be appreciated. I don’t want to have to presume this is breach of license.”

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My google life is continuing:

What with my mail now in gmail, rss feeds in google reader, my calendar in google calendar, and some documents that I want to share in google docs. I even have google notebook up and running. Things are going well.

However, I am having some trouble with my browsers.

Up to this little holiday google project, I was happily using Omniweb which I find is one of the fastest and slickest browsers for the mac around. But, google reader stumbles with some of its ajax sexiness, and so I have started to look around again. I have used Camino in the past and fnd it pretty fast. But I am trying firefox again, after about a year of not using it. Last time I used it on the mac, it seemed bloated and tired but it now seems to be much slicker. And those add-ons… well, I could be here a while playing with all the add-ons.

As I am switching (as part of my living with google attempt), from mail to gmail, this little trick of using mail tags and the redirect function in apple mail to get my emails into gmail.

“One nice thing about Mail is the Redirect feature, which lets you forward mail to a particular address so that it does not appear to have been forwarded from you. The final recipient sees the message just as you did when it arrived in your inbox.

One annoying thing about Mail’s Redirect feature is that it cannot be used on more than one message at a time. You can’t select, say, the entire contents of one mailbox and tell Mail to redirect all those messages to your Gmail account. If you select more than one message, the Redirect menu item is unusable.

For people with the urge to adopt Gmail as their main email client, and shift their mail archives from Mail to Gmail in one fell swoop, this could be more than just annoying; it could be the deal-breaker that prevents them moving at all.

So be thankful for Mail Act-On, because this handy little Mail utility lets you do perform a simple redirect command for as many messages as you wish, with just a few keystrokes. I recently used it to move several months’ worth of email over to my Gmail account, and it worked like a charm. ”

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