I use Gmail Notifier on my desktop PC so that Gmail handles all mailto: links, but I don’t really care for it as a notifier. But if you do install it and get the error message ”Cannot connect to your mailbox”, it may be because you’ve set your Gmail account to only use https, which the notifier is incompatible. So Google has a Windows registry fix/patch for that. Problem solved.
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Firefox and Chrome plugins for viewing PDFs
I had previously mentioned Foxit Reader as a recommended alternative to Adobe Acrobat for viewing PDFs, and while that still stands, I would also recommend the Google Docs Viewer for viewing PDFs through your web browser. A couple of plug-ins do a very nice job of seamlessly integrating the Google’s Viewer into your Firefox or Chrome browsers as plugins. Plug-in download links below:
I’m hoping Google’s Nexus One stirs things up
I’ve resisted the iPhone for all these years, and just recently got the Palm Pre, and while I won’t be an early adopter of “The Google Phone”, the Nexus One, I hope it stirs things up in the market. And no, I’m not an Apple/iPhone-hater.
The details are supposed to come out January 5th, but here are a couple articles to get you caught up ahead of the press conference:
Google Chrome’s Internal Task Manager via SHIFT + ESC
Quick little tip for Google Chrome users, and yet another reason for you to use it. Pressing SHIFT + ESC brings up Google Chrome browser’s internal task manager showing the memory and CPU usage of individual tabs and extensions, revealing what is hogging up the memory. Not being able to figure this out was a major annoyance of Firefox as it become more and more bloated over the last couple years.
