Gmail goes offline - that's a good thing

Google Makes Gmail Available Offline - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2:50pm

Source: bits.blogs.nytimes.c...

The biggest drawback of Web-based software, including e-mail programs like Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Microsoft’s Hotmail, is that they don’t work when users are offline — say, while on an airplane or on the road without access to a Wi-Fi connection.

Some more video links

Here is a screen shot of my bud in NYC (who unfortunately was born with a pillow head and an uncontrollable ability for witty responses)....

And here is an embedded video intro to....video chat...

Radio killed the video star

It's been a busy week so I missed this public announcement.

No more apps to make video chat happen. There it is embeded in your gmail!

Enjoy.

Announcement November 11, 2008 Gmail launches voice and video chat  Makes it easy to chat with video and voice right alongside your email Google today launched Gmail voice and video chat, making it simple for people around the world to chat in high-quality video for free right within Gmail. All you need is a webcam and a small web browser plugin, and you can start video chatting with your friends, family, and coworkers on Gmail and Google Apps. Gmail voice and video chat lets you start a video chat without switching to another application or signing up for another account. And if you don't have a webcam, you can simply chat by voice. We've made it easy enough that your mom -- or your employees -- will actually use it. .....(click title for full press release)

I need my Google to find my Google so we can go to the Google...

The only reall question here is why did take me almost 12 hours to do a post on this?

So for my tech challenged family just watch the video...

If you are hungry for more details, check out these feature videos...

New ways to read Bakerland

Streatching the technical envelope, I've added a few new features to the blog. These features make it easier for friends and family to subscribe to the endless reams of "quality" iPhone photo content Chris and I are "producing" these days (for those "slow" on the uptake, the "quotes" are used for ironic effect).

At Bakerland you'll now find two new additions both on the right column.

First is an sign-up for a daily digest. It is hard for me to believe it but you may not check our blog on an hourly basis as we expect. Typing in a URL, much less remembering a URL can be tough (sigh). Sign-up for the digest and then the posts will be emailed to you! Heck, if you want to skip that step (too lazy) just click here and follow the instructions: Subscribe to Bakerland by Email.

The other addition is the "Subscribe" box which through a few clicks you can add Bakerland to an online RSS reader where you can get all your blog reading aggregated into one place! If none of that made any sense then I'm guessing it isn't for you and you should stick to the email digest.

These are all new additions so I've no clue how well they are gonna work. The email in particular is done using Feedburner (a bunch of great guys working in Chicago). Please shoot me an email if things seem not right.

Another key change is that I've made the blog world readable (no access restrictions). I'm not taking out any front page ads for the blog and will do my best to keep it low key but the reality is that anyone can read it. So if inspiration hits you and you decide to post a comment or two, try and avoid using your S S N, blood type, secrete passwords, and the like. If you have pro or con thoughts on this I'd love to hear as this is most definitely uncharted territory for this blog.

Put it simply you now have three and/or options for reading our posts...

1. Just come to http://bakerland.blogspot.com and read it directly
2. Subscribe to the email and get regular digests of posts
3. Us a reader (Google account needed to use their reader) and read our blog along with others aggregated into one spot (Check out this video if you still don't get it).
   

At the very least, I hope this helps you enjoy the blog and more importantly keep in closer touch with us.

Yes I still pick up schwag...

...but hell if I'm gonna wear it.

That said, the parents do look faster in their new threads.

Lets test it out the new running gear. Quick...
"Who was the first winner of the New York Marathon?"

Oh yeah 0.30 seconds flat!