I’ve just read on the BBC News website that Google Wave will be going into a public preview later today opening the service up to 100,000 users who signed up at http://wave.google.com when Wave was first announced in May as well as developer people and a few Google Apps users.
As the Wave website shows its basically just Email V2 – chains of emails which different people can participate in, update, edit and change adding interactive elements, easily adding images and maps to and basically just making an emaily type system a whole lot more attractive.
I’m keeping all my fingers crossed in the hope that I’ll be included in the preview because it truly does look so cool – its like email and IM on steroids, perfect for planning events, keeping in touch and I’d have thought a nice way to get email type services back on track - it’s very rare that I receive an email from a friend and I blame Facebook for this, people find Facebook much easier - no email addresses to remember or effort to make because they always have Facebook open. With Wave being such an advance I’m hoping people will move over to it - BUT!, and its a big but! people will need an account which of course they will be reluctant to have, who really wants to have yet another account with a different service?! - A big shame, but if Wave interacts with Facebook and they create a good link this could help the cause.
I’ll keep this post updated if I get in - Its like being picked for a school sports team … only this time I actually want to be picked!

[Edit - 02/10/09] No invite for me unfortunately, I can only wait and hope for that all important email.

I’ve said in the past that my n95 is my favourite gadget, however that is old news - step aside n95, the n97 is in town. The decision for me to get it was easy - its fantastic, from the qwerty keyboard that takes a bit of getting used to, to the touch screen and the browser. I’ve had the phone for a little while and whilst there are a few little issues these will almost certainly get sorted in future firmware versions (an update is due this month which will feature kinetic scrolling on all menu’s). For me the keyboard is one of the best features, I haven’t fully tested my typing speeds compared to the n95 but I’m fairly sure they’ve improved - without predictive text and the hassle of turning it on / off for words that are or aren’t in the dictionary.

I think biggest issue has to be the low amount of memory - when a couple of applications are running it reduces the amount left free to a level whereby error messages hinder usage. however this isn’t always an issue and can be resolved with a cleanup of items left in the browsers history, I also hear that it will be resolved by the firmware update due this month.

The browser on the n97 is another plus point for me, to be able to touch and move around the pages more naturally than on the N95 is brilliant and the loading time of web pages is much lower too.

Applications that make the most of the n97’s touch screen are currently in limited numbers but I hope that over time some more brilliant apps will be released - the Facebook widget is fantastic whilst its working and not crashing.

Overall I’m very glad that I got the n97 and hopefully I’ll get a video done demoing some of my favourite features soon.

A while ago I found a service called Remember the Milk, I’m sure many others have heard of it – its basically an online service to manage tasks, with the ability to add deadlines and reminders. At the time I didn’t really have a need or use for it, however, I’d like to clean up my desk and get rid of the immense number of notes that I have lying around so I’m going to try and use it for this purpose.
The web interface is nice and clean and simple to use and add / manage tasks, enabling you to categorise them, search them, view by day, completed tasks, overdue tasks – a load of organisation basically.
Whilst I’m so far very impressed with the interface I was way more impressed by the amount of add-ins and gadgets for it – they go on and on!
For starters the simple ability to email tasks to a custom email address for them to be added to your list of tasks is nice, you simply follow a simple convention of tags to fill in fields ranging from a simple subject to tags, length, repeats, priorities and location.
Next is the gadgets available for Gmail and Google Calendar but also for the ‘Apps’ Versions of these for example I have them installed on my own domain which is a nice touch. These simply show you a list of recent tasks and enable you to add new ones and edit old ones.
There is a tie in with Twitter but so far I haven’t been able to get this to work but for those whom it works I’m sure it’s a nice touch.
There are also many others which don’t apply to me but are still a nice addition to the collection – MilkSync for Blackberry and Windows Mobile as well as apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
I’m not sure at the moment of how well the service will tie into how I manage my tasks but all of these add-ons can only help me to use the service to the most of its ability and get the most out of it so I look forward to updating you all on this soon… maybe.

Yes! I am still using windows 7, admittedly not on my Laptop anymore as it died on me so I went back to just plain Vista but on my main pc at home it’s still going strong and as good as ever. I’m a bit disappointed with Google Chromes compatibility – the ability to drag the maximised window from one monitor to another seems very buggy within it – presumably due to the customised title bar and tabs? But overall I still love Windows 7 – The ability to drag maximised windows from one monitor to another is still a great use to me and I’m enjoying the flexibility and ease of use its giving me rather than previously having to double click the title bar to restore down and then drag it over and then maximise it again, the process is much more user friendly now. I’m also finding that Windows 7 works a lot quicker and file transfer processes and fails a lot less than Vista, on top of this Windows 7 gives me accurate predicted times of completion and doesn’t crash explorer like Vista occasionally did.

In other news Google Chrome is another piece of brilliance I’m still enjoying, I’ve been using it as my main browser since its release all that time ago and I still enjoy it. The ability to search a website from the address bar by typing part of the site name in, pressing tab then the query is brilliant – it only works for sites you’ve previously visited and if they are compatible (e.g. Youtube) and the options also appear on the new tab page on the right. The browser itself I find is also rather speedy to start up and to use which is a plus.

Up until a minute ago Google had been throwing back the ‘This site may harm your computer’ error on every search result - even its own pages - for a little while. Whilst this was only occuring for around 5-15 minutes I have a feeling it may become some form of news, even if its just small blogs (much like I’m writing now). Whether it was hackers or just a little glitch in their Malware scanner I’m not sure but I do know they will be getting some publicity from it - probably just through blogs … but no news is bad news right?

I checked on the public twitter feed and noticed there were quite a few comments about the mighty Google fail too.

Credit to Google for fixing it in quick time but just remember - how many Google searches happen in the space of 15 minutes, I’m fairly sure Google may have lost a bit of money in that time.

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