Gmail goes offline (in a good way)

		January 31, 2009

	Google's Gmail offers offline option It's been a long time coming, but Google's Gmail now finally allows its users to view, compose, and search through mail when away from an active Internet connection. It only works on a couple of browsers, and will only download a portion of your Web mail in-box, but it's a huge step forward in bringing Web apps closer to some of the functionality we're used to in desktop software. Read more  Gmail offline: A guided tour Josh Lowensohn Associate Editor, Webware.com New on Webware.com Which HD video Web service is best? Posted by Josh Lowensohn Got some HD video you just recorded, and feel like uploading it somewhere? We put six different Web video hosts head-to-head to see which is tops. The results might surprise you.  Read more  Facebook Connect syncs up with iPhoto Posted by Caroline McCarthy If you're a Mac user running the latest edition of Apple's iLife package, Facebook Connect allows you to hook up your Facebook account to easily upload photos right from iPhoto. If you use the iWeb site creation tool, you can set it up to post a message to your Facebook profile (and your friends' news feeds) whenever you make an edit.  Read more  Microsoft adds fancy search option for Firefox Posted by Stephen Shankland If you had doubts Microsoft didn't appreciate the advantages of Firefox's capability to accommodate add-ons, you can dispel them now. The company just released an add-on that makes Microsoft's search service work better with the open-source Web browser.  Read more  More details surface on Google's alleged GDrive Posted by Don Reisinger Over the past few weeks, numerous reports have surfaced suggesting that the mythical Google GDrive, an online storage service developed by the company, might be a reality--even though the company has kept its alleged existence under wraps. This week's discovery tells us what it would do.  Read more  6 ways to be a better commenter on YouTube (and elsewhere) Posted by Don Reisinger As someone who writes controversial articles on the world of technology, I've seen every kind of comment known to the world: friendly, angry, thoughtful, agreeable, disagreeable, ridiculous, rude, meandering, outrageous. Too many comments just have no business being on the Web.  Read more  Cool new productivity tools Gist hopes to solve your e-mail overload woes Posted by Josh Lowensohn Gist is an upcoming e-mail helper service that links up to your Outlook and Web mail accounts and analyzes the people you're communicating with. It then rates what it believes their importance to be, as well as your conversations so you can more easily wade through an ever-growing e-mail in-box.  Read more  Share MP3s as tweets with Songly Posted by Josh Lowensohn If you want to send friends an MP3 without them having to download it, or share it with others as a Twitter message, check out Songly. This free service does all the heavy lifting by taking a URL and converting it into a streaming music player.  Read more    Related Newsletters Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most CNET offers a wide variety of newsletters on everything from tech industry news to the latest games and gear. Browse the entire list now. Manage newsletters More Webware  Webware RSS feed  The Webware 100  About Webware.com
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heise online news 31/01/2009

heise online news 31/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Symbian trojan steals money from mobile accounts The trojan can transfer small sums of money by texting, but infection requires that a number of conditions be met. Australian media sources are warning of a wave of mobile phone trojans heading for Australia › Read article     Microsoft's Web Sandbox is now open source The software vendor has released the source code of the Web Sandbox project for developing secure mash-up solutions under the Apache 2.0 open source license › Read article     Microsoft PR blunder over Internet Explorer security Microsoft's security evangelist Jeff Jones appears to have miscounted when trying to prove that Internet Explorer is as secure as its open source competitor, Firefox › Read article     PHP 5.3 beta released - testing invited The PHP development team has released the PHP 5.3 beta and has issued an invitation to those interested, to test the new version › Read article     Google fixes security vulnerabilities in Chrome A bug in the JavaScript Engine means that it is possible to circumvent the Same Origin Policy. According to Google, JavaScript can be used to read the URL, other attributes and data from other frames. The update also fixes XSS vulnerabilities › Read article     How to make open web sites - BBC RadioLabs tutorial A presentation from the BBC steps developers through the BBC design process for creating web sites and resources › Read article     OLPC XO-2 to be open source hardware According to a Guardian report, the next version of the OLPC will be open source hardware › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Dj Walker-Morgan All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.

Fedora Weekly News meeting summary 2009-01-30

Thanks to all who were able to attend today's FWN meeting. Transcript
is available at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Meetings/2009-01-30

Summary:

Participants:

Adam Batkin
Nicu Buculei
Pascal Calarco
Oisin Feeley

1. Dormant beats

* we would like to find active writers for the Ambassadors, Marketing,
and Security Week beats, at a minimum
* Pascal will follow up with current Ambassador and Marketing writers,
and send a note out to the lists if they are not able to continue; Oisin
will ask David Nalley for suggestions for the Security Week beat, since
David is doing the Fedora updates beat each week

2. Formatting issues

* we thought it would be useful to investigate what MediaWiki
conventions were available, and create some wiki scratch space to try
these out, ie. <pkg> and other tagging
* Oisin and Pascal will reach out to the Docs folks to see if these are
documented, and work with them to possibly add these to the wiki
StyleGuide for others to use as well
* Pascal will update the FWN StyleGuide to indicate that person
references should ideally reference the appropriate User: wiki page, if
it exists. If it does not, we will use CamelCase references as a fallback
* Oisin and Pascal will submit a request for Design work from the Art
Team to help with a new wiki banner; also will consult with IanWeller
and Mo for other FWN wiki styling updates
* Oisin will update the FWN StyleGuide to direct writers to start using
the ref: cite module convention for links, which is much cleaner;
Editors will need to convert all numbered references to ref: beginning
with the next issue

3. Fedora Magazine

* Oisin and Pascal will contact Jonathon Roberts to discuss Fedora Magazine
* specifically: 1) investigate how to export from MediaWiki to e.g.
wordpress or whatever is the CMS du jour supported by infrastrucure; 2)
contact JonRob to ask what his plans are
* Adam Batkin indicated he can help out occasionally
* Pascal can devote some time to this also
* Nicu is happy to have his weekly webcomic syndicated in Fedora Magazine
* Nicu also suggested that the Art team was thinking about wallpaper
photos of the week, which could be incorporated into Fedora Magazine

* the meeting adjourned at 13:59 UTC.

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