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I discovered something in Gmail yesterday that I meant to mention that some of you will say, “Well duh, Peng. I’ve been known about that for a while.” I’ll give you a gold star, but if I just found it yesterday than I bet others don’t know you can do it either. First let’s get today’s links out of the way.
- Ubuntu Productivity: Better backup, syncing, and sharing. Windows and Mac users know about the Dropbox service but Linux users have been left out in the cold. There’s a Linux version currently in alpha testing, but you can request an invite. The author lets you know why that’s such a big deal, and after reading his post and checking it out I’ve requested an invite myself.
- Asa Dotzler: consumer reports: stop using safari, get firefox. This isn’t just Asa being a Mozilla evangelist (his job), this is a major consumer testing organization saying that safari shouldn’t be used. At all, alt least for now.
- Steven Rose: Ultamatix – Ubuntu NL warns against. The Ubunteros in the Netherlands (and Flanders) have looked at the Automatix replacement and don’t just say “Danger, Will Robinson!”, they tell you why you should avoid it.
- Scott Ritchie: Wine sucks and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. The WINE maintainer (it really is supposed to be in all caps since it’s a recursive acronym) for Ubuntu has some major beefs with our favorite Windows programming layer for Linux. Luckily tomorrow he’ll post his plan for fixing the issues, which I’ll post, but I wanted to post this link today to give you reasons to watch for tomorrow’s link.
A Gmail Tip
Like many of you I have filters set up on my Gmail account to help store my email in a way that I can hopefully find it again later. But I don’t save all of my email in Gmail, since I download all of it into Evolution at least once a day. So I end up having to select Unread messages, then deselect the news emails since they get deleted once I read them, and start reading my new emails. But it turns out I don’t have to select then deselect. Instead, since messages are already labeled thanks to my 
Gmail filters, once I read them I simply click the X box beside the Inbox label.Voila! The message has been archived without dumping you to your inbox.
Do you use Google Translate to translate web pages in a foreign language? There are bookmarklets available to give you one click translations of web pages. I only wish I had found those sooner. It would have saved me a ton of time even sooner.
/me checks his email and RSS feeds one more time
Yep, that’s a lid. I’ll post if I find anything that just won’t wait until tomorrow. Enjoy your Hump Day.;)
