Life As It Comes
Google Docs and SpreadsheetsNo Comments
Just a quick note on a study break to say that I’m excited about Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Not only do they read and write MS Office but OpenOffice as well. Plus, there’s that whole collaboration feature. Sounds intriguing. Many writing about the release today have said it’s not an MS Office killer, but it doesn’t have to be yet. I’ll play around with it, let it grow in mindshare, and maybe find an excuse to collaborate with someone on a document. Already that’s me using it for a task or two for which I might have used MS Office. And so it begins.
New Firefox 2 LookNo Comments
Not as drastically different as I was thinking, but still a big step in a great direction. Google Groups post here.
(Win|Pin)stripe Icons Released2 Comments
Kevin Gerich and Stephen Horlander announce the release of the Winstripe and Pinstripe artwork from their work for Mozilla.
I guess this means the new theme for Firefox 2.0 will be a complete departure from (Win|Pin)stripe. This thread on Google Groups mentions that Radiant Core is responsible for whatever we’ll see next, so given this news today, I’d say they were given free reign. What about Thunderbird? Will it finally match Firefox?
Dilemma2 Comments
Now that Google Calendar is out, I’ve got a dilemma.
For a long time now, I’ve hosted my iCal calendars from my Powerbook (and my iBook before it) on my webserver via WebDAV. This has worked well for me, and I’ve benefitted heavily from figuring out how to set up WebDAV and using it for other purposes. Now, Google wants to host my calendars, enabling me to share them and subscribe to them with iCal instead of managing them within iCal like I have in the past. This will still let the phone and iPodPhoto sync, too.
The question becomes, “Where do I want to host my data?” Do I want to do it myself? Or do I want Google to do it?