Boomerang for Gmail: A Smart Way to Manage Your Inbox

Did you wish you could schedule the emails you send and receive for a later time? Well with the Chrome and Firefox Extension Boomerang you may get your wish.

Boomerang will let you schedule emails to show up in your inbox when you’re ready. You can also schedule sent messages, for example if you wanted to send a timed “thank you” message or schedule a happy birthday email.

 

How it Works

It works by placing a Boomerang drop-down menu in your Gmail message bar. You choose when and how to schedule your message. Common options like in an hour, tomorrow, and next week are readily available but you can also choose a specific time.

What’s really nice about scheduling with specificity is that you don’t have to entire an exact date and time stamp if you don’t want to. You can enter things like “next Wednesday” or “Today at 5:00 PM” instead.

 

 

Boomerang is worth a look if you are frequently frustrated with your inbox. Right now it’s in private beta, but you may be able to find some invites floating around the interwebs.

 

Check out Boomerang for Gmail

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Tab Candy: Firefox Sweetness

Aza Raskin, Mozilla’s head of user experience for its Labs unit, on Friday unveiled a new project called “Tab Candy” that promises to dramatically change the way users manage open browser tabs.


Tab Candy is a new tab management feature for Firefox that organizes tabs into groups to help you keep your tabs grouped by task. Not only does it offer incredibly handy features, but it looks beautiful.
Tab Candy is not an extension, but a new feature that Raskin and team plan to build into a future version of the Firefox browser.

This is what Raskin had to say about Tab Candy:

The power of the browser has grown substantially in the last ten years. We now use the Web to multi-task the activities we juggle every day, like vacation plans, purchases, sharing pictures, listening to music, reading email, and writing a blog post.
It’s hard to keep everything straight with dozens of tabs all crammed into a little strip along the top of your browser. Your tab with a search to find a pizza parlor gets mixed up with your tabs on your favorite band. Often, it’s easier to open a new tab than to try to find the open tab you already have. Worse, how many of us keep tabs open as reminders of something we want to do or read later? We’re all suffering from infoguilt.
We need a way to organize browsing, to see all of our tabs at once, and focus on the task at hand. In short, we need a way to get back control of our online lives.
Enter: Tab Candy.

Tab Candy effectively consolidates different windows inside of one, so when you’re looking at one group, your others are waiting inside the switching interface. The concept is still in development, and only available in an experimental version of Firefox, which Raskin has made available for brave alpha testers.
Right now it’s only feature is this tab organization, though many more features are coming, including search, clusters that can be set as a private browsing session, and public and private sharing of tab groups.

This demo video details some concepts:



This looks like a big step forward for tabbed browsing in Firefox. What do you think of Tab Candy so far?

Read Aza Raskin’s blog.

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Is Google Chrome Coming for Firefox?

Chrome overtakes Safari for first time to claim third place in US Internet browser market

 

Google Chrome continues to gain browser marketshare, edging past Apple’s Safari in the U.S. and, apparently, also taking some users from Mozilla’s Firefox according to StatCounter. The firm's research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that for the week beginning 21 June Chrome overtook Safari to claim third place in the US browser market.

 

Aodhan Cullen, CEO for StatCounter commented:

This is quite a coup for Google as they have gone from zero to almost 10% of the US market in under two years. There is a battle royal going on between Google and Apple in the internet browser space (Chrome v Safari) as well as in the mobile market (Android v iPhone).

 

 

To see how much Chrome has grown over time, check out these extended stats, which go from October 11, 2009 through the end of June 2010:

 

 

Chrome with 8.97% took third place in the US browser market ahead of Safari with 8.88%. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the US Internet browser market with 52%, followed by Firefox (28.5%).

 

Globally Chrome has been well ahead of Safari for some time with 9.4% of the market compared to 4% for Safari. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has 53% of the global market followed by Firefox on 31%.

 

The data is based on an analysis of 3.6 billion page views (874 million from the US) for the week 21 to 27 June 2010 collected from the StatCounter network of over three million websites.

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