Update:It seems like GMail could go public soonish. After reading about people having 50+ invites I’m in that club now, too. So if you want an account, just post a comment, atm I’ve got 50 invites sitting here…

Update: The request are flowing in as are the new invites…the number below is still accurate, so if you’re still in need of an invite, just post a comment here (ideal would be a post with full name)…

Update: It seems that my account is auto-refilling itself…I was done to two numerous times now and it seems as soon as my account hits 2 it is refilled to 4 invites, let’s see how long this will go on…

After a really long time there are some new gmail invites waiting in my account. So, in the spirit of sharing the good stuff: anyone who wants an account, just post a comment to this post with your email-address and you shall receive an invite. (Offer valid while stocks last ;-) ).

Current status: 6 30 available

Yes! A two page ad was run today! (see official site).

And here’s my name on it: :mrgreen:

The pdf of it is here. A picture of it is here.

:-)

Alrighty, after Google’s desktop search and MSN’s toolbar (including desktop search) we’ve got the third one on our hands: Ask Jeeves Desktop search.

Now I’m wondering: how much desktop do you even have to search? How often do you really search for something on your desktop with a search-functionality (OS side)? Isn’t it better to just organize your files and stick with it? Maybe it’s just me, but I stick to my well thought out data-organisation and abstain from shutting down my brain in an effort to push “new technologies” like the desktop search.

It doesn’t mean that those search-programs are a bad thing (although they might as well be – think about what Google Desktop search does (can’t speak about the others as I didn’t and probably won’t test them): build an index of all your files. Do you know if that is properly encrypted? Do you know whether or not a “bad person” could take advantage of such (a) file(s)?), I was really amazed how fast the search mechanism worked – in contrast to the WinXP built-in search mechanism. So maybe it’s time that Microsoft works on their own engine or allow others to be integrated into the OS as there’s no way I’m going to install this thing as an additional program.

Woohoo! The big 1.0! Get it now!

I just did, download was fast as ever, the “update” from 0.9 worked like a charm and everything is looking good (especially the new icons).

I guess it’s time that you Reclaim Your Inbox, too! ;-)

online-bookmarks is a really nice web application using php and MySQL to implement an online system for bookmarks. Alright, you can always save (or export) your bookmark list from your browser and upload it to a web-location, but that’s not really elegant nor efficient. So this really comes in handy. You can import and export bookmarks (I just tested the import with my bookmarks of my Firefox 1.0 – which worked like a charm) and best of all: manage them online (add, delete, move, etc)!

All you need is php and a MySQL-db and you’re set. Really nice! It took me less than two minutes to have it up and running. Thanks to Ben for finding this one! You can read his thoughts about it here.

Well, well. It was really interesting to watch the auction “live” (refresh, refresh, refresh). In the last hour the bid rose to over 3000$ taking a stop just before the end of the auction with the winning bid of 3350$. Nice one!

Too bad that my guess of 2600$ was a little bit too low, so no prices for me, but hey…at least Jeremy got a nice amount of cash!

Read more about it over at ensight…

• 1. What Halo 2 character are you?
  
• 2. Which Movie Hero are you?
  
• 3. Which Movie Villain are you?
  

Man I love such quiz things :-)

Update: The prices that are up for grabs are starting to pour in hour by hour! The grand prize is now even higher and there are more prices for the runner up places! So, make sure you enter this competition!

Hehe, nice one. As you might have heard Jeremy is putting himself up for auction at ebay (see here). So after he’s posting day to day standings of the current price I suggested he could make it a “competition” (see here): whoever guesses the final price (or is nearest to it) will win something like a T-shirt or something.

Now he really did a great job and put up the Contest:
First price will be

• 1. A groovy t-shirt
• 2. 1 year free ROCKET3 hosting with HostRocket
• 3. Free domain name from DeveloperCube
• 4. A free guest blog appearance by world renowned blogger Jeremy Wright!

Two thumbs up, and the prices for second and third price aren’t bad either!

• 2nd place: 1 year free ROCKET2 hosting with HostRocket
• 3rd place: 1 year free ROCKET1 hosting with HostRocket

So…if you’re interested, get your behind over to ensight and enter your guess ;-)

Alright. Arvid Axelsson released the new verision of Qute on November 27th 2004. It carries the version tag 3 and is compatible with all versions of Firefox (up to 1.0) now. Groovy stuff.

If you’ve been waiting for it you can get it here or update it if you’ve already installed the old version (2.1.3): in Firefox: Tools -> Themes select the Qute theme and hit the update button.

While I was really busy this week there was much going on around the “blogosphere”.

• 1. Ensight’s Jeremy Wright is selling himself on ebay. Unbelievable? No, his idea to sell himself for a period of time as a blogger for a company is really groovy. I’m wondering how much will be the final price. You can checkout the auction here (current price: 112.73$).
• 2. Jeremy is still looking out for bloggers who would like to join his effort to get 50 bloggers together to start an advertising network. Jeremy will negotiate based on the basis of 50 bloggers as soon as this number is met and, I think, it’ll be beneficial for all participants. More infos can be found here
• 3. Google’s newest edition to the “beta-family” is Google Scholar which can be used for literature research (scholar.google.com). Found via Technosailor.com

After taking this test, here’s the result:

Old school :-)

Found via Neil’s World

Update: Downloaded and installed. Looking good, looking good. Now I just need to wait until the Qute theme is available for the 1.0 :-)

Yes, it is finally here Firefox 1.0

(Found via Chu Yeow)

Now I’m wondering: what’s up with the New York Times ad ?
Wasn’t it supposed to be released before the 1.0 was about to be released?

Hehe…so which one is you?

Me is:

Which Family Guy character are you?

Found via Neil’s World

Today both Firefox and Thunderbird were updated.

Thunderbird is now available in version 0.9, Firefox in version 1.0 rc2.

Will I update?

• Thunderbird: nope as I don’t use it (yet)
• Firefox: not really as the 1.0 release is said to happen next week(?!)