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Google adding Chrome Desktop Notification for Gmail

01/28/2011 Cool Apps In the News No Comments

This is pretty interesting, I was in my gmail this morning, and noticed a message that I can enable desktop alerts just by using Google Chrome. Now you can get chat / email alerts without popping back and forth from your work to your gmail account. To activate the feature,…

Drag images into your email messages using Gmail

05/13/2010 In the News Javascript Thoughts & Rants No Comments

I read this morning that Google added the ‘drag-n-drop’ feature to image attachments to mail. Which is pretty exciting because if you think about it, you are really dragging an image INTO a browser. I’m really curious what type of Javascript handling you need behind the scenes in order to…

Young job seekers hiding their online status from employers

04/01/2010 In the News Thoughts & Rants No Comments

Interesting to see that most new young job seekers are hiding their online status, wether it is on facebook, myspace, or even on linkedin (their non professional network). I found this article to be right on the money, people are used to ‘Googeling’ someone prior to an interview, and trying…