In a comment to the post on Michael McCracken’s “Distraction-free” Gmail WebKit browser, Justin Reid posts about how he does the same thing in Camino using javascript bookmarklets.

He uses this script to open his Gmail in a distraction-free Camino window:

And another for GCal (which I quickly hacked out of his Gmail script).

Nice! Just Command-click on the links above and select “Bookmark this link…” to install them.

They also work in Firefox, as one might expect.gmail, Google calendar, camino, firefox, javascript, bookmarklets, GTD, productivity, email, web 2.0

Tech. Life. Blogged. has a post that explains how to add the Agenda from your Google Calendar to your Gmail web interface using a Greasemonkey script in Firefox.

The instructions are involved but not technically demanding.

And the result is useful:

You can only have one calendar at a time loaded in this way and if your calendar is big the reloading will slow things down (a little).gmail, Google, agenda, calendar, greasemonkey, firefox, tips

I ran across two things for Gmail users today.

Adam Pash at Lifehacker has posted a tutorial of tips and tricks for getting the most out of Gmail. It even has video clips!

Among other things, he talks about some scripts for the Firefox extension Greasemonkey which add very useful bells and whistles to Gmail’s web interface.

Another Greasemonkey script promises to bring basic encryption to Gmail. It first encrypts the email into AES and then uses the RSA algorithm to encrypt the message again.gmail, tips, tricks, greasemonkey, scripts, firefox, encryption, email

Five quickies:

1. Seamonkey 1.0 , the open source next generation of the Netscape communicator suite has been released. Although it is based on the Mozilla 1.8 code base, Seamonkey is not the same thing as Thunderbird plus Firefox. The projects have taken off in slightly different directions. You can find a good chart of the differences on Chirs Ilias’ web site. UPDATE: The Blue Ferret reviews Seamonkey.
2. Rob Griffith at MacWorld offers a tip that shows you how to reply to an email while keeping the original open in its own window (Hold down the Option key while clicking on Reply, Reply All or Forward).
3. Speaking of the rise and rise of the Mail-like look, Fraser Spiers is suffering Expos?ɬ© confusion . So many of his apps now look like Mail.app that it is hard to tell them apart. UPDATE: He has posted an even more striking photo of the confusion on flickr.
4. David Pogue shows you how to reconfigure the Address Book of a Motorola Razr (the world’s top-selling cell/mobile phone) to make it more user-friendly and efficient to use. Nice one!. See also, if you are into that sort of thing, his comparison between the Razr and the Blade , Samsung’s new Razr clone.
5. A spammer writes to say, “I read over your blog, and i found it inquisitive.” Honestly!

Two quick Thunderbird things:

1. FreeSMUG has posted a portable build of Thunderbird 1.5 that you can put on a memory stick or any other portable medium.

   You will need at least 33 MB of free space, but you can then take your Thunderbird with you (complete with emails and contacts) and use it on any Mac.

2. The Mozilla Wiki carries news of progress towards a version of Thunderbird that will run on the new Intel Macs.

   The article describes what needs to be done, how they are going to do it, and also links to the latest Intel Mac builds of Thunderbird, Firefox and Camino.

Now Mozilla users can enjoy portable browsing and email.

It would be very cool to see something similar for Mail.app.

You can put your Mail folder on an iPod or memory stick and use Apple Mail on whatever Mac you have to hand, but that’s nowhere near as elegant a solution.

Jim at Journeyman James writes about moving from Mail.app to Gmail and how it has simplified his life:

Bottom line, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve gone from three apps open ?¢‚Ǩ‚ÄùMail, Safari and sometimes FireFox?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù to two ?¢‚Ǩ‚ÄùFireFox and NetNewsWire Lite. I guess that?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s good. At least, it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s more simple. Safari seems to me to perform much better than FireFox, but FireFox isn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t too bad.

Mail offers many features that one cannot get from an online, hosted service like Gmail, but I never used them much anyway and frankly, syncing Mail between computers ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùand not all on my company provided WinTel craptop?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù is a hassle. So I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m pleased.