A few minutes ago I walked/crawled this planet for 23 years now.
As I was playing around with the Wavr plugin and Google Wave all evening long, I forgot about it.
Luckily there’s still Eva, my good-looking roommate. 🙂
She came by to give me 3 kisses and an awesome present!
Wondering what it is?
Check it out:
It’s fairly simple, but you have to click a little but further.
I know there should be a remove-button inside the tool-tip when clicking on the contact’s avatar, but it’s not.
Note that only the contacts that have an @gmail.com adress will show up in the contact manager. People that only have an @googlewave.com address won’t show up.
But there’s no need to sweat. This has already been noted by the Google Wave team on this support page.
The Google Wave interface is quite easy to get started, but some things may still be more complex than it first seemed.
One of these things is the search function.
At first the search function is only capable of searching for Blips that contain certain words and that are in some folder.
But after reading this Wave Support page you’ll see that there are much more ways to use the little search box.
Read trough the list of possible commands, and you’ll find a quite strong search box.
Also note that it’s possible to add multiple search commands in the box.
So or example, if you’re searching for all public posts that contain the word Ubuntu you can simply enter the search string:
with:public ubuntu
If you want to search the public waves for all the ones about WordPress and contain the word style, you just query for:
with:public title:wordpress style
The most important thing you can do after you triggered a query is save it.
Saved searches help you find and filter waves, faster. Here’s how to save a search:
- In the Navigation panel, click (+) next to SEARCHES.
- Enter the appropriate details in the box that appears.
* If you’d like to apply filters to waves matching your search criteria, use the Filter Actions in the box. Archive causes waves to skip the inbox, and selecting Mark as read will unbold all matching waves.- Click Submit.
If you perform a search and decide you’d like to save the terms of that search, click Save search at the bottom of the search panel. The same box mentioned above will appear so you can further customize the search.
You can access your saved searches by expanding SEARCHES in your Navigation panel (click (+) next to SEARCHES). Like other options in the Navigation panel, you can edit, rename, reorder, and/or change the color of your saved searches using the More actions arrow next to the title of each of your searches.
gnome-cups-manager ------------------ Once upon a time there was a printer who lived in the woods. He was a lonely printer, because nobody knew how to configure him. He hoped and hoped for someone to play with. One day, the wind passed by the printer's cottage. "Whoosh," said the wind. The printer became excited. Maybe the wind would be his friend! "Will you be my friend?" the printer asked. "Whoosh," said the wind. "What does that mean?" asked the printer. "Whoosh," said the wind, and with that it was gone. The printer was confused. He spent the rest of the day thinking and jamming paper (for that is what little printers do when they are confused). The next day a storm came. The rain came pouring down, darkening the morning sky and destroying the printer's garden. The little printer was upset. "Why are you being so mean to me?" he asked. Continue reading Funny Gnome-Cups-Manager README file :)
This weekend there was this awesome mail in my mailbox comming from wave-noreply@gmail.com.
The subject? “Your invitation to preview Google Wave”
Guess what, it was my Google Wave invite!
Here’s the mail:
From: wave-noreply@google.com
To: Me
Subject: Your invitation to preview Google Wave
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:01:52 +0000 (23:01 CEST)Google wave
preview
Check out the videos and example waves
* Invite others to join you
*
Thank you for signing up to give us early feedback on Google Wave. We’re happy to give you access to Google Wave and are enlisting your help to improve the product.To accept your invitation, sign into Google Wave at the following link*:
https://wave.google.com/wave/invite?a=pre&wtok=4af57blablalblaalla13&wsig=ABk8uhSmlkmlieodqsfqdErsQTtjw
(If you do not have a Google account, you will be prompted to create one)Once you’ve signed in:
Happy waving!
The Google Wave TeamFor help, please visit http://www.google.com/support/wave
* This link will only work for one invitation to Google Wave, it cannot be shared!
Copyright 2009. Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.
So now I got my Wave account, but there are no people in it, yet.
For now, I won’t be able to test that many things as a communication platform is quite useless without contacts.
But as my friends & family starts accepting the invites I send out, it’ll be a great experience.
Every accounts seems to start with 20 invites, but they’re not send out immediately.
The reason is quite obvious:
Invite others to Google Wave
Google Wave is more fun when you have others to wave with, so please nominate people you would like to add. Keep in mind that this is a preview so it could be a bit rocky at times.
Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.
Happy waving!
The welcome message includes an introducing video to the Wave platform.
A quite nice way for a multi-billion company to introduce a new product 😀
This is a way too funny picture, if you know that guy in the picture. Not the Japanese guy!
The man kneeling in front of the Windows 7 booth is no one less than Linus Torvalds, the godfather of the Linux kernel.
The picture was taken at the Linux Symposium in Japan yesterday.
At the same day as the Linux Symposium took place, some funny guy (from Yodobashi Camera) had no better idea to start a Windows 7 release booth just at the other side of the street.
I can imagine how much impression he made on the FOSS minded people.
There was little planning going on before starting the booth. According to me, they thought: Hmm conference, lots of people, lots of sales…
Would be nice to know his actual sales-numbers.
The guy fro the store clearly doesn’t know what’s going on 🙂
Mark my words, this picture will be around for a long time.
Nice trolling there Linus!
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Ok, Windows Server 2003 was great, and Windows Server 2008 is even greater, as told by Microsoft @ the It-pro days in Ghent (Belgium) 2 years ago.
So, we’re going flat on the assumption that they’re using their own ‘great’ server technology for their own good.
After all, according to their website, Windows Server is cheaper, safer and better than any other technology around.
But wait, what’s this?
As a search page should be quick, secure and efficient I agree you should use Linux, but I never saw this one coming!
Other searches for microsoft results in different linux hosted services beneath the microsoft.com domain.
wb.dlservice.microsoft.com
search.microsoft.com
vista.gallery.microsoft.com
social.microsoft.com
fullproduct.download.microsoft.com
silverlight.dlservice.microsoft.com (This one is even hosted on Ubuntu)
I know the saying: “Keep your friends close, but your enemy’s closer” (not sure who came up with this slogan), but this is way too funny!