My Google apps get a style makeover
A cleaner, more functional GMail
I use GMail for my personal email, and functionally it’s great, but I always thought it could use some help in its look and feel. Even the new beta of Hotmail has a nicer look.
Not any more. Lifehacker recently rolled up multiple gmail enhancements and styling into one package: Better Gmail. I love the Super Clean skin, and the Conversation Preview option is sweet – simply right-click on a message to preview its content in a popup bubble.
Goodbye Newsgator, Hello Google Reader
I’ve played with Google Reader here and there, but the look and feel of Newsgator Online kept me with Newsgator. However, using the Stylish extension, with the Google Reader theme, makes for a much nicer looking Google Reader. This was the final straw that pushed me to move away from NewsGator and move to Google Reader permanently. Plus, Newsgator seems to have slowed in its performance lately; and Google Reader is just so quick!
If only Dovetail web applications were Firefox compatible
These type of Firefox extensions are truly kick-ass. They allow normal users and developers alike to extend, customize, and beautify existing apps without touching the existing source code. I wish our web applications were fully supported on Firefox – it would certainly enrich our product suite to be able to have our customers and the end-users at our customer sites introduce styling and functional enhancements in this area. Then, instead of just our handful of developers working on our applications, we could potentially have thousands of people working on extending our product suite.
