The recent news of Yahoo! buying Flickr made me check it out. I was impressed enough to sign up immediately. What made me do so? Well, I liked the simple design and intuitive interface, but what really clinched it for me was this plugin which makes uploading photographs from iPhoto very easy.
It also has some other interesting features like Continue reading “Flickr”
I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Yahoo Mail is increasing mailbox size to 1 GB. Ala Gmail (last I checked).
I don’t think it’s about the size anymore. Gmail might seem to be the first one to offer that kind of space, except it wasn’t. It’s about what other features you can offer – filter out spam, easy searching etc. And Yahoo does a pretty good job of keeping spam out of my Inbox, searching is fine too I guess. Now only if they started POPing my mail again for free. I know there are utilities that can do the job for me, but I would like Yahoo to open it up.
How come the ones with a .co.uk email id still have free POP access is something that I’ll never fathom, but that’s for another day.
Google did something interesting the other day, which only a lucky few could catch before it vanished. It was called Google X, Google’s “tribute” to Mac OS X.
Basically, the icons on the page “zoomed” in realtime when mouse was rolled over them. This, of course, is exactly how icons in the dock behave in Mac OS X (if magnification is enabled obviously). Pretty cool, eh?
But Google later removed the page, possibly because it stepped on some Apple patents, though one can’t be sure. There has been no official word from them on this topic as far as I know.
I managed to save that page and was able to reconstruct the effect with a little effort. You can check it out here in case you missed it earlier.
PS – If anyone from Google or Apple legal thinks I’m stepping on toes I shouldn’t, please drop me a line and I’ll be happy to remove the page.