The Voice of Rosen

Gmail had a great idea: replacing the limitations of hierarchical folders with the flexibility of labels. Now they are promoting the notion that they've "improved" Gmail by making labels work more like folders. How is that an improvement?

As the "death of the newspaper" gets continuing coverage (mostly on television), new apps bring the New York Times, USA Today, and now The Wall Street Journal, to your iPhone.

If you use the Firefox extension Better Gmail 2, recently you may have noticed some problems. Changes to Gmail's HTML and CSS layout broke some of the scripts included in this add-on. But don't worry, Better Gmail is getting better.

A year ago, Gmail was updated to provide a new interface. The Better Gmail add-on for Firefox was updated to support this new interface. Then Gmail Labs began providing new experimental features. Who can keep it all straight?

The brouhaha over the voice search capability in the latest version of Google's new iPhone app.

Gmail started misbehaving for some people right around the time the Android was introduced (coincidence?), but attempting to resolve this problem led to the discovery of a cool way to make Gmail work better on your iPhone.

You'd think this was the hottest news item of the week, the way EVERYBODY seems to find this new Gmail feature so fascinating.

If you thought drunk dialing was a problem, consider the notion of "inebriated email". But don't worry: Google provides a new feature in Gmail to protect you from yourself... unless you're REALLY good at math.

Google announces their own browser, complete with a comic book explaining how cool it is!

Google's Gmail service is vigilant about rooting out spam. So vigilant... that their own standard "relationship emails" with their customers are labelled as spam!

This is what Wiley has proposed to us as a cover for the second edition of the Web Application Architecture book. We like it.

You've probably seen a number of blogs (including this one) that present the date as a page from a desktop calendar. Here's how I did it.

Apple provides a developer's guide for the iPhone.

Caucho Technology, the people who brought us Resin, now offer a Java-based implementation of PHP that can run on Java application servers.

Apple has released a version of its Safari browser for Windows... OK, so?

Second edition of Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols & Practices to be released next year.