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Waver, a cross-platform Google Wave application for your desktop

Download Squad  Oct 22 09

Filed under: Google, Social Software, web 2.0

There's Tweetdeck for your Tweets, Seesmic for your Facebook stalking -- and now Waver for your Waves! Waver is simply an Adobe AIR application that hooks into your Google Wave account. From there, you can create new waves, or update existing ones. Adobe's Javascript implementation seems to do surprisingly well, rendering Waves as quickly or quicker than Google's own V8 -- though this could be due to the fact that Waver uses the cut-down iPhone UI output from Google Wave. Also, a lot of the UI seems to actually be, er, missing. And a lot of the shortcuts don't seem to work yet. Full story...

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Better bookmark manager coming to Google Chrome - here's what it looks like (video)

Download Squad  6 hours ago

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Mac users of Google Chrome finally got a solid bookmark system in Google Chrome.

Ubuntu 10.04 beta now available for download (screenshot tour)

Download Squad  8 hours ago

Filed under: OS Updates, Features, Linux, Canonical, Beta

With the final release of Ubuntu 10.

DLS @ SXSW - Crowd Fusion

Download Squad  22 hours ago

Filed under: Web services, Commercial, Open Source, sxsw

I spoke to Brian Alvey, co-founder of Weblogs, Inc.

DLS @ SXSW - Lifeyo

Download Squad  23 hours ago

Filed under: sxsw

Erez dove into Lifeyo recently, so I won't duplicate his efforts here.

Can't make a meeting? Google Calendar now has a Smart Rescheduler

Download Squad  less than a day ago

Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, Google

If you're someone who has to take a lot of meetings, you've undoubtedly run into scheduling issues at some point and had to reschedule one .

DLS @ SXSW - PayPal

Download Squad  less than a day ago

Filed under: iPhone, Web, sxsw

PayPal had a nice booth at SXSW and was there to promote their API and developer platform, which now allows developers (hint: mobile developers, prayers answered) to enable PayPal's e-commerce solution within their apps.

Internet Explorer 9 to support hardware acceleration of HTML5 canvas tag

Download Squad  less than a day ago

Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers

It's already been pretty widely reported that Internet Explorer 9 will feature better support for standards -- including HTML5.

Firefox Friday Five - bringing a little fire to your weekend!

Download Squad  less than a day ago

Filed under: Features, Mozilla, Browsers

Sebastian is out stomping the fjords in Norway -- true story! -- so I'll be your humble replacement columnist this week.

Coming soon to Google Chrome: use your extensions in Incognito mode!

Download Squad  less than a day ago

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Google Chrome's Incognito mode is a handy way to browse without leaving unwanted traces of your activitybehind.

Google Chrome Beta, Dev channels now support Windows 7 taskbar thumbnails

Download Squad  less than a day ago

Filed under: Google, Beta, Browsers

Earlier today, Google pushed updates to both the Chrome beta and dev channels.



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