Talamathi

Google has announced in a couple of places that they’ve released a beta of Picasa for the Mac (or in their terms, it’s “in Google Labs”). I’ve downloaded it, and hope to try it out once I have some real time. What I’d really like to see is how well it works with iPhoto. Given how iPhoto and iTunes (among others) integrate with the Mac, that’s really important if something like Picasa is going to survive on the Mac. Once I try it out, I’ll post something here. So, uh, why care? Despite how nice iPhoto generally is, Picasa on the PC is actually a nicer program. In fact, it’s one of very few Windows-only programs I actually enjoy using, and even want to have ported over. Technorati Tags: Google , Picasa , iPhoto

I thought this was a joke , but after a little bit of searching around, I managed to find the “Bells and Whistles” option. Don’t believe me? Check out the image. Technorati Tags: Google , iPhone

There was great new yesterday in the Columbus Dispatch : Riders can go to the COTA Web site, www.cota.com , and punch in the starting and ending points of their trip, along with the date and time the trip will be made. Google Transit processes the information and tells riders where and when to meet the bus that will take them where they want to go. Actually, I’m not sure why it was necessary to identify one of the people they interview as homeless, but that’s a totally different topic. I will say that I tried it out, and was generally impressed. It gave me the general route I sometimes take. The one thing I would say is that it appears COTA has given Google only the major pick up spots for each bus. So while there’s one just a minute away from where I live, Google would have me walk to a stop seven minutes away. Similary, Google tries to guess the route the bus will take, by using those major stops. That means it didn’t even show the circuitous route of the bus...

I finally have IMAP with Gmail! Thus ends the series of posts nobody cares about concerning my lack of email. Technorati Tags: Gmail , Google

It’s at this point in not having Gmail that I truly wish I had not accidentally run over a Google employee’s dog, where by “accidentally” I mean “repeatedly”, and “dog” I mean “son”. And yes, I took that from the Simpsons . Honestly, what else am I supposed to do? It’s not like I have IMAP to fill my time. Technorati Tags: Gmail , Google , Simpsons

So I still don’t have IMAP available for Gmail . A post on the Official Gmail Blog said it would take a couple of days to do them all, but I was hoping I would be better than average. Oh, well. I have picked up some useful pieces of information from an editorial “ Will Google replace Microsoft Exchange? ”. I don’t know if everything is true (I try not to use editorials as a source for facts, although Technologyevangelist.com has tended to be pretty good), but if it is there were two things I did not know previously: Gmail’s IMAP does not currently support IMAP Idle . This is too bad, but also not surprising, since I assume they wanted to get IMAP out as they could. I would be surprised if this doesn’t hurt them in the end, what with everyone doing full refreshes. Leopard will support IMAP idle. This is great news. Before I started using Gmail for everything, I was using IMAP and loving it. Unfortunately, Mail.app didn’t have idle so I sa...

Gmail gets IMAP - Download Squad : It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail. Download Squad reader eD! Thomas sent in a tip letting us know he came across the new IMAP setting while snooping around Gmail. However, it is only appearing in select few Gmail and Google Apps for domains accounts at the moment. When we checked Gmail Help database this evening, Gmail had said that they support POP, but not IMAP. Then a few minutes later, that doc was gone, and a stack of IMAP related help docs were up. The new pages explain how to integrate the new mail feature. It’s as easy as setting up POP, but with huge benefits. There’s a little mental list I have of things I’d like Google to do to improve their applications, and this just crossed half of them off (assuming it’s true; I haven’t seen this preference yet). (Via Daringfireball.net .) Technorati Tags: Google , repost , Gmail

Recently, I have been kind of wondering what has happened to some of my friends from high school, and even some people who were not maybe friends but I thought would go somewhere. Don’t worry, I won’t spend much time talking nostalgically, as there is a larger question to what I am writing about. But first, let me detail some of the kinds of references to people I can find: One person is in a bowling league One is now a teacher in middle school One appears to be working for a women’s foundation One got an MBA and appears to have cut her hair One studied physics in her undergrad, and then went on to graduate school to study dance One is now a lawyer One appears to be in finance and real estate One might be doing artwork for some RPGs One wrote a letter to a survivalist magazine One posted a few messages to some newsgroups right before and after graduating These were the best results of well under half of the people I tried to find things out about. Granted, I limited m...