ROUNDUP – Gmail Offline, Boxee, Shutl, TrailMeme, Lazyfeed, NoteTaker and more

By TheGeek on December 13, 2009 under News

Every week ROUNDUP brings you quick updates on some interesting news and tips around the web from the past week that we didn’t get the time to elaborate. It also brings you what happened at DemoGeek.com in the last week, in case if you missed the updates.

NEWS
	Real time search results comes to Google Google has quietly turned on the much awaited real time search results. Search for any of the social-media trending topics and you should be able to see a mini scrolling area with those real time results.
	Screenshots of Windows Live Messenger 2010 Neowin has posted some screenshots of what it claims to be of Windows Live Messenger 2010. Even though it surely looks like an early build screenshot and it looks ugly there seems to be quite a lot of Twitter integration upcoming.
	Gmail offline is now a standard Gmail feature Gmail Offline is leaving Gmail Labs and would become a standard Gmail feature. Previously Gmail Offline was using Google Gears but with the abandonment of Gears Gmail Offline won’t be using Google Gears anymore.
	You can twit now in Italian With the launch Twitter in Italian language Twitter is now available in 5 languages, English, Japanese, Spanish, French and Italian.
	Social Dashboard comes to Boxee Beta One of the famous upcoming internet television platform, Boxee, is ramping up its UI and launching into private beta with a set of new features that brings social dashboard capability to Boxee.
	Mark Zuckerberg opens up his Facebook page Get to know more about Mark Zuckerberg with his now widely open Facebook page. Even though he don’t share too much about him it is quite good to know some more about the Facebook founder.
	Shutl promises 90 minutes urban delivery from your favorite online stores New UK startup, Shutl, promises 90 minutes delivery to your urban place from your favorite online stores. They’ve launched the service in London to begin with, more major cities would get the service soon.
	Xerox launches TrailMeme Xerox just launched a destination site for a new kind of publishing technology called Xerox Trails. Trailmeme enables users to map a set of web pages or other digital objects.
	Experience a TV-live Feed Reader with Lazyfeed With Lazyfeed users would type in a tag or a single-word search term, and LazyFeed would then return videos, photos and blog posts tagged with that search term. Users were then prompted to add that term as a topic, which essentially meant the search was saved somewhere for you to easily get back.
	Cheating developers are not welcome anymore at the App Store With the booting of Molinker Inc. an iPhone app development company with more than 1,000 iPhone apps Apple indicated that they won’t be accommodative of developers trying to game their system. Nice move Apple!
	wikiHow hits 20 million monthly visitors wikiHow unveiled a new redesign that looks pretty along with a more stunning news that it receives more than 20 million monthly visitors per month. That’s just wikiWow!

TIPS
	Free Shipping Day – December 17 If you are postponing a purchase just because you don’t get free shipping then roll-up your sleeves and get ready for Dec 17 when more than 700 online retailers offers free shipping coupon codes
	Note taking on your iPhone made easy with Note Taker Note Taker iPhone app helps you use your natural writing capability to take notes on your iPhone without fat-fingering those tiny keyboard keys.
	HTML5′s impact on the way we use internet HTML5′s many new tags would help ease your programming and creative skills. Web application focus, Geolocation, native video and audio support, Canvas drawing, Smarter Forms, Offline storage and many features and very promising to change the was we use the web now.
	3 handy rules to process your Outlook emails Scott Hanselman reveals some nice rules which you can adopt to process your Outlook emails if you are burdened with email overload. He explains in detail about how to setup Outlook rules and such to automate this.
	wikiHow vs. eHow The founder of eHow and wikiHow, Jack Herrick, explains why he went from eHow to wikiHow and what advantages the wiki model brings into his target market segment.

CATCHUP
	Giving away 10 more Google Wave invitations On top of the 7 Google Wave invitations that you gave away couple of weeks back we’ve got 10 more Google Wave invites that we wanted to share with our Demo Geek readers. Leave a comment and tweet about to be one of those lucky winners on Sunday, Dec 20 2009.
	Change the default font of your Gmail message New Gmail Labs feature allows you to change the default “Arial” font of your Gmail messages. With this new feature you can make some other standard fonts to be used as the default font when composing new Gmail messages.
	Use CSS-Tricks Code Snippet Gallery to discover really useful code snippets If you are web developer I’m sure you might be looking for some code snippets quite constantly that can save your hours and hours of frustration. Code Snippet Gallery from CSS-Tricks can come-in handy when you are in need of useful code snippets.
	11 best online file storage services With the many choices always comes a confusion. The same goes true for the online file storage market with many choices. Get to know 11 of the best online file storage services which could come in handy.1
	Turn off icon previews to speed up your Mac If you are ever in need of squeezing your Mac to its last processing juice one quick performance boost would be to turn off the icon previews that consumes extra processing power every bit of the way.

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