Google’s disapearing emails

When Jeneane Sessum logged into her Gmail account on the afternoon of 27 October, she was greeted with a horrifying sight: an empty inbox.

A Gmail user since 2004, Sessum, a social media consultant and writer in Atlanta, had thousands of messages there, enough to use up almost 30% of her allotted storage space.

Since Gmail is her primary work and personal email service, Sessum lost many important messages, including some she needed at that moment for a project.

Days earlier in Chicago, Jessica Squazzo, a writer and editor, accessed Gmail and stared at her computer screen in disbelief: all messages from 2007 had disappeared from her inbox.

Sessum and Squazzo are just two of a small but steady stream of Gmail users who regularly report losing some, many, or all of their messages without a clue as to why.

Asked to comment about multiple lost-message reports in 11 different threads created in September and October in the Gmail Help forum, a Google spokesman declined to address any of the specific situations, citing privacy reasons.

However, he did emphasise that, as far as Google is concerned, “most issues like this are a result of phishing attacks or compromised passwords – or sometimes simply messages mistakenly deleted or marked as spam – not a data corruption issue”.

Read more here….

Google to launch open-source Chrome OS this year

Google is developing an open-source operating system targeted at Internet-centric computers such as netbooks and will release it later this year, the company said Wednesday. The OS, which will carry the same “Chrome” name as the company’s browser, is expected to begin appearing on netbook computers in the second half of 2010, Google said.

The Chrome OS will be available for computers based on the x86 architecture, which is used by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and the Arm architecture.

“Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android,” it said. “Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the Web.”

While Google is initially looking at the netbook segment of the market it might compete with Microsoft and Apple on larger, Internet-centric machines.

Chrome OS is “being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems,” said Google.

The heart of Chrome OS is the Linux kernel. Applications, which can be written in standard Web programming languages, will run inside Google Chrome in a new windowing system. They will additionally run inside the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac or Linux machines, meaning that a single application could run on almost any computer.

Checkout more at:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135276/Google_to_launch_open_source_Chrome_OS_this_year

http://www.pcworld.com/article/168141/google_chrome_os_will_reshape_desktop_landscape.html

One more….

Here’s one more extension to great Vanilla.IsOnline is an extension which indicates if the comment author is online or not.
This uses some codes from the extension “Who’s Online” which gets the names of the online users and assigns them an array.Then another function checks if the particular author of the comment exists in that array.If exists it returns a colored icon ,if not returns a gray icon.
This icon is compatible to the default Vanilla theme.But some tweaking needed to the comment.php file inside the theme folder.
Since this extension uses string replace function which replaces the span tags with the required data, and no span tags are provided after the time element in the comment title ,before enabling this extension you will need to add ” . ‘<span>IsOnline</span>’ ” just before the semicolon which ends the line where comment title is displayed,right after the time and date.And you are ready to use this extension.

I hope we will have this span tag added to the page in coming versions of the default theme.For now Go get this extension.

 

 

Bugs report are always welcome!!:)