Google reader on Opera glitch?

I've been using Opera (9.64, Linux) for a couple of days and I noticed something a bit annoying about the Google reader interface. A few seconds after I share an item and add a comment, the comment view turns bold - new comments have been made... But it's MY comment. I get excited over nothing :(. AFAIK, this doesn't happen with Firefox. I really need to check out google reader groups / support.

Later: It just happened under Firefox too. How to reproduce, how to reproduce...

Google Calendar oops

Although I find their "oops" endearing at times, it looks a bit annoying and unprofessional the moment it happens.

GMail labels glitch. Sad.

:(
I can't apply a label to multiple elements if at least one already has that label. I deselect the items that are already labeled, apply the label and then carry on (reselecting "All", and archiving in this case). Sad.

[using Firefox]

LE: THERE'S AN "APPLY" BUTTON!! Just noticed it, and it does the job right...

Will you be mobile and edit my Google contacts, please?

It all started when I wanted to unblock one of my Google contacts.
By Google contacts, I mean the contacts that are shown under Contacts, in GMail's web interface, and particularly my most contacted ones, that are my GTalk contacts.
I am mobile, using my Nokia E51 phone, with the default internet browser and with fring installed.

First, I only seem able to use the basic html version of the GMail web interface. When I chose to use the standard version, i was shown the mobile one. No use there.

Then I figure I might be able to use the GTalk gadget under iGoogle. Pace yourself.No proper Flash Player version installed.

How about trying to use Opera Mini? Well, 4.1 installed ok... The second time. When I tried to install on phone and not on memory card that is. But then I could not log in to Gmail. All I got was a blank, white page. Sorry, I cannot document that with a screenshot at the moment. No print screen key.

Let's try the old opera mini. 3. I can install it just fine now, I chose my phone din prima this time around.

No friendlier (my specific need is editing a contact) pages this time either.

And only then do I start to google. But it's hard! Googling is fine, reading through the results, not so much! Not to my eyes at least.

So now, more than an hour later, I give up! Now, that's what I call an efficiently blocked contact.

Google Reader Manage Friends turns into Sharing Settings

Google Reader, through the Official Google Reader blog, just informed me that stuff's changed. I didn't really bother reading what it's about - I took a look over the article, figured it's about managing the people you share items with; also, I usually trust they're really making improvements. My attitude is, like always: show me, show me!

So I immediately go and click on Manage Friends.

And I get:


Boo. I need to see the new stuff!

I figure I need to refresh my page, and I do, and the first change I see is that Manage friends is now called Sharing settings. It actually makes a lot of sense, I personally use other means of managing my friends, none of which involving mouse clicks. And the changes are of so much impact that I now (5 minutes after the whole thing happened) wonder if it was really called Manage friends before.

I click on that and I get to the good stuff. I am now excited about taking a deeper look into it.

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I started to use Google Notebook, loving it more and more every day.

Another sweet one from Google and Firefox

Well, this really is actually kind of sweet.

This morning I was reading that Google Notebook now integrates Google Bookmarks
and I thought "Hey, I never used Google Notebook"... So I clicked and got to Google Notebook, and I was invited to install a Firefox addon for it. And I did.

A very nice, clean page (I, as a web developer, actually mean that) let me know that I was successful installing the add-on:


I didn't even have to read the note (it was sitting pretty in the center of the page), there on the page was also a huge arrow pointing to the trully important stuff:


The arrow, with its pretty colour and size, was so effective in directing me (I, again, really mean that) that it did take me a while to see the Open Notebook link just a little bit to the left. Just a little bit.

My more-annoyed-self would bitch on how presumptuous this whole thing was. But I find it sweet. Pin-the-tail-on-the-link kind of sweet.

Inca un screenshot cu o eroare de la Google

Mai exact e vorba de Picasa.

Dar sunt simpatici. Auzi la ei, a little bit broken!

GMail progress bar

Arătam cu altă ocazie nişte lucruri mărunte pe care le-am observat la interfaţa GMail, folosită din Firefox.

Acum iată ultima lor îmbunătăţire, pe care am văzut-o aseară:

Înainte, când se încărca lent, ziceau chestia asta şi ofereau link spre varianta simplă a interfeţei. Linkul îl dau şi acum, în colţul opus al paginii (prima dată nici nu l-am văzut):

[Gmail] deleting from in:trash does nothing

You want to forever delete the email messages in Trash... You click on Trash. But there, you find there are some messages you don't want to delete, not yet... So you think of filtering those you want to delete. The search tab already has in:trash written in, so you go on filtering upon your heart's desire.


At this point, I would humbly expect to get a Delete Forever button, instead of the Delete one. After all, the button was there right before I made the search. Oh well, I'll just click Delete.


A ha, that was a waste of time, just like I imagined - the action Delete applied on a conversation that's already in the Trash, will unnecessarily move it to the Trash.

I could select the needed messages, go and click on Trash again, and forever delete them from there, but that's a little counter-intuitive.

I just added my suggestion regarding this issue, at the Gmail: Help Center. I don't feel like searching the Gmail dedicated Google Group(s) for this one, sorry.