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Some software updates of note

200702020916 Sometime over the past few weeks the folks at Google updated the Gmail Notifier for Mac. The latest version works with hosted gmail accounts (e.g. willisbros.net mail is hosted on gmail.) So now I get to hear that nice little da-ding whenever I get a new mail. Which is about every 9 seconds. So that’s going to get pretty annoying. But it’s still nice that Google’s not letting the hosted accounts fall too far behind the regular gmail accounts in terms of functionality. And third-parites are beginning to launch some cool services for gmail users, too. To wit, the ability to bi-directionaly sync calendars from iCal to Google Calendar.

200702020918 Secondly, there’s a new Skype client available for Mac. They’ve removed the (Beta) from the version number. So perhaps some of the flakiness has been addressed. Especially the problem of the manual keypad not working.

In other somewhat esoteric software news, the PDF spec has moved from an open format to an open standard. Something that I’d been betting on for a while but it’s still good to know that Adobe did the right thing here. Stephen O’Grady has some good discussion of the shift in openness here.

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