Google Wave is a great tool and it seem there are more people out there who think this too. If you want Google to hang on to this mis-understood service check out; SaveGoogleWave.com and join the cause.

Just found that one of my top FF extensions is now on Chrome, Adblock. Not only cutting out the garbarge online but also the flash adverts which sends my MBP CPU temp right up

Please update your bookmarks and feeds for my site.

I now have a Mango Blog at:

http://www.andyjarrett.com/blog

Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/andyjarrett

I've been looking at accessing the Gmail contact data via their API. This is the first draft of my findings and is no way the finished solution but it does what it says on the tin and returns the email address's from a users Gmail account contacts. Its actually quite simple to and we're going to do this in 2 CFM pages. We are going to be using the AuthSub method of registration

There are three levels of registration:

1. Unregistered: Application is not recognized by Google. The Access Request page, which prompts your users to either grant or deny access for your application, displays this caution highlighted in yellow: "Non-registered, not secure. This website has not registered with Google. We recommend that you continue the process only if you trust this destination."
2. Registered: Application is recognized by Google. The Access Request page displays this caution: "Registered, not secure. This website is registered with Google to make authorization requests, but has not been configured to send requests securely. We recommend you continue if you trust this destination."
3. Registered with enhanced security: Registered applications with a security certificate on file can use secure tokens. The Access Request page displays this message: "Registered, secure. This website is registered with Google to make authorization requests."

As we are going to be using the first method of Unregistered the user will getting some simple/basic prompts:

1. The first will be asking them to log in and letting them know that "A third party service is requesting permission to access your Google Account"
2. Second an Access Request page which lets the user know WHAT we are doing

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This post is really aimed at anyone who uses GMail or Google Apps outside of the states or does not have English(US) set up as their default language!

Yes that right, if you are waiting for the IMAP settings on your Google mail account check your language settings now. This is something I remember reading about ages ago ... in short the Gmail team roll out new features for the US first and they use your language settings as a guide! Subsequently I've just enabled this on my apps account and it appeared instantly

The Google reader is finally graduating out of labs.

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Google have now added Trends(stats) to the Google RSS Reader.

You can view your trends at http://www.google.com/reader/view/?page=trends( Presuming that you are logged in)

You can find out more from the Google Reader Blog: I like big charts and I cannot lie

You can view:

• Reading trends over a 30 day/time of day/day of week period
• See which blog are active/inactive
• Breakdown of blogs read/starred/shared
• .. and more

Google are beta testing the ability to have Gmail access to your Domain emails. It offers the 2Gb (nearly 3 according to my stats) Gmail account, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and a Control Panel to manage user accounts, aliases, mailing lists, and chat settings.

You have to own your domain for this, its not something Gmail will offer. While in the beta it is free, but it does mention a cost factor in the learn more which might suggest this could change? maybe for corporate/large users. Another nice feature is that you can also upload your company's logo for brand awareness as well.

https://www.google.com/hosted/

Found while looking over at Ray Camdens site, in the comments

The other day we were stuck in a HUGE traffic jam in London. We just happened to be heading over to Earls Court in rush hour. Well with the taxi moving 2 metres in 10 minutes we decided to walk instead. We didn't know our way, but the London pedestrian is always willing to help contary to what some people say. Really though what I could of done with (except for heading off earlier to avoid the traffic) is Google maps. So as usual now that I don't need it I've found a J2ME program to stick on your mobile from Google to access their maps.

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Well I got on to the limited testers for Google spreadsheets. I wanted to try it out as I have a few work related logs which I manage that go around with me on a pen drive, and I thought what better than to have a web based solution.

I've been testing it out this morning and so far its more advanced than I thought it would be. The usual functions are there; bold,underline, copy, paste, formulas, multiple worksheet support, and you can even upload(open) you current .xls and .csv files. It also allows you to download all worksheets in a .xls format or download a single sheet in .csv and .html. One other nice feature which I think Excel doesnt have is autosave!

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I've made available below the code to my CF Meeting Calendar Pod. Its very rough and uses inline CSS. It also uses uses Ray Camdens iCal CFC which you can get from his "My Tools" pod. You will need to put this in your /includes/pod/ folder along with the pod code.

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Do you have an urge to find out about anything related to April Fools Day ( and if you do please let me know why)? Then you can check out Googles April Fools search engine.

http://www.googleaprilfools.com/

Though as im typing this it just seems like an April Fools joke!

I have created a public Google Calendar for ColdFusion meetings. The idea I had behind this is that if you run any kind of CF meeting, whether it be online (Online CF Group), at a meeting place, UKCFUG, or just a demo'ing something on a IRC chanel you can update it here so everyone knows about it and also be able to merge it with you current calendar.

The only problem is that I'm sure that I still have to invite you to join if you want to add/edit your meetings details, but anyone can view/subscribe to it.

At the moment I've only added the next UKCFUG one for tonight so you can see it in action. If you are an event organiser (and you have a gmail/calendar accout) and you want to be able to edit drop me a line in the comments and i'll enable you to add comments.

To subscribe use one of the following links

[XML]
[iCal]

I know this might seem a little presumptuous of me - but if you have any ideas on how to have a central location for meeting details drop me a line.

The Googls Adwords in Gmail are a thousand times better than what you get with most free email accounts but do come up with some good "targeted" links:

Cold Fusion Chalet
Discounted Easter Ski Holidays Now
http://www.coldfusionchalets.co.uk/

Whats the best targeted ad you've had?

Well to jump on the band wagon I thought I'd let everyone know for the n'th time that the Google Calendar is now online. The only thing I will say is that if you are interested get on there quick. Google have done this a few times then restricted access later, Analytics was a good example of this.

Techcrunch has an depth pre alpha post about the Google Calendar CL2. Also included are quite a few screen grabs as well. Some of the features are looking quite impressive including XML and ICAL settings for the Calendar and Private Addresses. You can choose how you want your notifications as well - email, SMS (there has got to be a cost involved for this?), or pop-up.

It is only being tested by a reported 200 people so don't hold your breath on seeing this too soon.

From the Labs Google have released an online (ajaxed) rss reader. Obviously another step towards keeping your life online and not on your PC, and it looks good.

Like Gmail, opps i'm in the UK, i should say Google Mail you can star items, group them with labels, even search RSS feeds.

If you have a Google mail(it doesn't sound right) Gmail account then its well worth a look.

I wonder how long it takes to put an Office Application online

One post which gets a quite a few hits is my one about Google Messenger.

Well it looks like the sources were right with the beta launch (of course) of Google Talk..

I havent had a chance to use it yet as im still in the middle of moving, which is going quite well. Should be in over the weekend and just in time for my birthday on Sunday. Fingers crossed.

Any friends of mine on Flickr can see the progress.

You can now personalise your Google homepage. On the front page under the search box you can have Google display

• Gmail
• Stock Market
• New York Times
• BBC News
• Google News
• Weather
• Wired News
• Slashdot
• Movies - U.S only
• ..... and more

Its nice but still needs some finishing touches e.g. If you only select one item then it should stretch to fit 100% width of the page. Instead each item takes up about 30%. Also stuff like the movies is US only...arrrgghhhh!

While this is all optional it's a nice touch to Google, let just hope it stays that way.

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Google Maps UK is now available - though sadly laking the satellilte images found in the US version