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Filed under 'gmail'

March 25, 2008

March 8, 2008

A Question of Programming Ethics

Pretty much inevitable — An app that asked for your GMail username & password was harvesting them. One point to the “Why we need OAuth” party.

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December 20, 2007

Remember The Milk + Gmail = task management goodness

Brilliant use of Google’s newly-exposed Gmail API to seamlessly blend to-do lists into your Gmail UI.

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November 6, 2007

GmailGreasemonkey10API - gmail-greasemonkey - Google Code

GMail’s new interface exposes an object with the specific intent of making it easier to write less-fragile GreaseMonkey scripts which interact with the application. Nice idea.

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July 25, 2007

Official Gmail Blog: Help make a Gmail video

Fun little collaborative video project from GMail.

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April 18, 2007

Lifehacker Code: Better Gmail (Firefox extension)

Bunch of handy GMail Greasemonkey scripts bundled up into one tasty Firefox extension.

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April 3, 2007

FireGPG - use GPG easily in Firefox !

Firefox extension to enable GPG encryption/verification in GMail. Need to give this a shot.

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January 10, 2007

SitePen Blog » Offline Gmail and Blogger Using the Dojo Offline Toolkit

First stages of the Dojo “offline toolkit”: Mockups imagining how it could be used to make GMail or Blogger usable when you don’t have an active net connection. Looks like it could be a game-changer.

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December 9, 2006

Techcrunch » Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect

GMail has integrated Fetchmail, so you can slurp in your other other mail accounts, rather than having to configure them all to forward to GMail.

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November 2, 2006

Google Mobile - GMail

Java applet for cellphones which, on my Nokia 6682 at least, provides a better email experience than the built-in mailreader.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.