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Google have recently rolled out support for multiple signatures in Gmail, something I’m sure will be celebrated by anyone who uses it for multiple email accounts. At the same time they’ve also added rich text options, basically allowing you greater control over the look of your signature, even allowing you to include pictures.
If you want to check it out log into Gmail, click on settings and you should see ‘Signatures’ under the general tab.
…. And we’re back! Actually, that’s not fair – Ben is the only one around here with a good excuse not to have been posting regular articles recently! I’m sure you’ve all missed me – and you won’t find any sarcasm around here (see what I did there?)! Anyway, I digress. Today I’ll be filling you in on, you guessed it (or read it in the title, durrrr), a sweet online service which will allow you to remote-desktop any computer you fancy installing it on. It’s called LogMeIn. Kinda catchy, I guess. That’s beside the point. I guess I am easily distracted, huh?
Exams are over, coursework is done and the celebrations are a mere (and slightly fuzzy) memory, all of which means one thing… I can finally start writing again! What, no applause? Anyway, this is just a quick one whilst I’m winding things back up, Google Chrome extension “Auto HD for YouTube”. (Geek points to BE77Y [Euan, for the uninitiated] for finding this).
If you’re like me you always play YouTube videos at the highest quality available, but when first loaded a lower quality is always selected. Two clicks and a reload later and you’re laughing, but should that really be necessary? Not in my book at any rate, so what can be done about it?
First there was IRC, followed by services such as MSN Messenger or AIM and now everyone and their semi-literate dog are using Facebook Chat. Some would say that contacting your friends over the internet has never been easier, but personally I view FC (that’s right, I’m acronyming it up, I think living with an accountant may be rubbing off on me) to be a step in the wrong direction.
Now don’t get me wrong, Facebook was the perfect platform to build a new system on, it’s got a much higher adoption rate than anything else before, it just doesn’t work as I’d like. The problem? Who wants to leave a browser with Facebook open all the time, the chat window system of yesteryear was so much better. Now I’m sure there’re going to be people who disagree with me (when will people realise that I’m always right…), but for those who feel the same as me there is an alternative.
If you use Facebook and Twitter, at some point or other you’ve probably wondered if you can link your status between the two sites. A cheeky Google search will have shown you a veritable plethora of ways to do this, but I found them all to be very underwhelming.
The problem is that your status in Facebook isn’t (or at least shouldn’t be) used in the same way as your Twitter. I ended up wishing that I could select specific Tweets to go as my Facebook status, instead of blindly setting a whole load of meaningless @replies and retweets.
Apologies for the lack of articles recently, it’s coursework season… which makes us sad. Anyway we all think this fantastic guest post by Alex Morris (GamerTag: scousiewousie) was well worth the wait. Speaking of guest posts, if you fancy a go at writing (and it’s something you think would suit Gizunk, sorry to anyone that wishes to write some long winded essay about paperclips) we’d love to see what you’ve got to say. All credit goes to your fine self and if we like your stuff, and you fancy it of course, you could always become a permanent contributor. Anyway, on to the article!
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Whilst watching a rented copy of Hurt Locker at the weekend (Blockbuster is still around, who knew?)… I got to thinking about war. This stark, gritty, free-cam filmed (think The Wire’s drug scenes in the projects, but in Iraq and feature-length) drama following a team of US bomb disposal soldiers apparently cost a ‘mere’ $11 million to make, yet picked up the highest accolade for best picture at both the BAFTAs and the Oscars.
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