This weekend has been one for cool new gadgets, mind-broadening medical ideas, and discoveries:
- a backpack that generates its own electricity, capable of powering up to seven gadgets simultaneously
- a battery that runs on the bacteria-rich fluids found in a cow's stomach, providing a clean and renewable energy supply
- using hookworms to treat asthma
- a South Australian study has identified what may be the diabetic body's natural defence: when hypoglycaemic, the body accelerates emptying the stomach to raise blood sugar levels
- Jupiter's clouds, as seen from Cassini
- the flying lizards to make all flying lizards look tiny
- to make up for the delay between the Windows and Mac releases, the Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X has some cool tricks up its sleeve. Colour me envious (even though I don't use the GMail Notifier any more. But I might, if the Windows release had these cool functions)
And, finally, one that isn't technophilic so much as nostalgic: Moon River (can't you hear Audrey singing when you look at this one?)
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I can't help thinking that Jupiter has bad skin.
*snort* I hadn't even considered that. But now I won't be able to think of anything else!
the weird thing is — they didn't really add much with Google Talk (which replaces the notifier if you install it), but if you install Google Desktop 2 and have it index your email, you can set up filters to only see certain items in the sidebar box, based on your criteria. Why they didn't include that in the notifier or Google Talk, I have no idea. I'm using Google Desktop, but don't use the sidebar since it mostly just takes up screen real estate, so having the option there isn't that incredibly useful.
In case you're wondering, the only really useful addition in Google Talk's mail notifications is that you can now click on the icon in the pop up notices to launch that email.
(Greg, longing to jump back to Macs as soon as I can…)
I haven't even looked at Google Talk or Desktop. I couldn't say why, probably just doesn't strike me as entirely necessary. So all I know about is the Notifier itself, which bugged me with it's checking every 2 minutes, and no way to tell the program "I know about those emails, you don't have to tell me they're new anymore". I like Macs, and I like the variety of really cool programs available to Macs, but I'm so used to Windows PC that I don't know if I could switch…
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