Facebook hasn’t made its redesigned profiles official yet, but a number of blogs have posted a link where you can check out the redesign and play with your new profile a bit.

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Facebook hasn’t made its redesigned profiles official yet, but a number of blogs have posted a link where you can check out the redesign and play with your new profile a bit.

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It’s summer tour season. Are you planning to go see anyone play? The Daily Green has a rundown of musicians who go the extra mile to reduce their carbon footprints as they travel and perform.

Among the superstars is Radiohead. Their opening act says, “At the outset we were all given tour water flasks. Plastic anything is like contraband. Each bus and truck runs on bio-fuel. There’s no idling, rather some newfangled way to deliver electricity cleanly. They don’t do airfreight, either. The list goes on. Everything is supremely managed to reduce the ‘footprint.’”

Also on the list is Coldplay, fronted by the always-too-prickly Chris Martin, and the supremely crunchy Jack Johnson, about whom The Daily Green says, “The tireless eco-supporting Hawaiian surfer dude not only has his own eco village at each venue but his concert rider includes fluorescent light bulbs and water efficient showers backstage, separate bins for waste and recycling (with biodegradable bags), an eco-crew to check tire air pressure for attendees, and a stipulation that all leftover food be donated to local food banks.” Impressive.

You might also want to check out The Dave Matthews Band. Why? “Every time the man tours, he ups the eco-ante. Last year it was biodiesel trucks and buses, carbon offsets for travel, eco-friendly merch, and an Eco-Village for fans. Green tour mavericks Reverb estimate more than 3 million pounds of CO₂ reduced or eliminated. This year, look for carpooling services and an eco-footprint reduction contest for fans.”

Don Willmott’s blog posts are provided by LifeWire, a part of The New York Times Company.

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We’ve heard about songs getting released on iLike, Imeem, MySpace, and a whole lot else. But Rock Band?

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That’s on the way, according to Microsoft’s press conference at the E3 Expo. The New York Times reported that that it could be on the way …

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REPEAT&CORRECT: US MBA Survey Table Of Current Interest Rates Last Update: 7/9/2008 11:44:32 AM WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Following is data from the Mortgage Bankers Association of America’s weekly mortgage application survey, released Wednesday. Seasonally Unadjusted Seasonally Adjusted […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

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The Live Calendar automatically generates a birthday calendar.

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Microsoft is adding birthday reminders and several other new features to its Windows Live Calendar service.

The on the web calendar, which still is in beta testing, also got a new user interface and some more options for printing, Microsoft said in a statement Wednesday. On tap in coming days are the ability to subscribe to on the web iCal-format calendars, support for holidays, and the ability to synchronize with Windows Live Hotmail e-mail.

Some things on Live need updating though. The contacts section of the calendar page told me to upgrade my Web browser to World wide web Explorer, Firefox, or Safari; I’m using Firefox 3.0.

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REPEAT&CORRECT: US MBA Survey Table Of Current Interest Rates Last Update: 7/9/2008 11:44:32 AM WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Following is data from the Mortgage Bankers Association of America’s weekly mortgage application survey, released Wednesday. Seasonally Unadjusted Seasonally Adjusted […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

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Google doesn’t deny that it’s working on bringing offline access to two major Web applications, Gmail and Calendar, but a sign emerged Thursday that the feature–which would be a major expansion of the applications’ utility and competitive threat–is due soon.

“Gears on Gmail and Calendar in approximately 6 weeks. Just had a preview at Google offices. Not sure if it is Google Enterprise only,” stated Andrew Fogg, chief marketing and strategy officer for Web 2.0 consultancy Kusiri, in a Twitter post Thursday.

Gears, formerly called Google Gears, is an open-source extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer now and Safari and Opera later that, among other things, lets Web browsers store and use data even while offline. That can make Web applications vastly more useful and a more viable replacement for PC-based software such as Microsoft Outlook. With Gears, Google this day offers offline editing for its word processing service and offline viewing of its spreadsheet and presentation service.

A view from 2007 that indicated Google work on offline access to Google Calendar.

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Google Apps competes with Microsoft’s Outlook-Exchange combination as well as with many other online and offline applications, including Yahoo’s online e-mail application, Zimbra, which already offers offline access to e-mail.

Gmail has won plaudits from some users–I like it myself–but today they can’t use it directly unless they’re connected to a network, and I spend a lot of time working where there’s no access. Of course, with Google’s free use of IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol), software such as Mozilla’s Thunderbird also can be used to handle e-mail while offline, so it’s not as if Gmail users are helpless without a network connection.

Customers who pay $50 per year per user for Google Apps Premier Edition get more storage space, superior technical support, and other features. Personally, I’d be surprised if Google restricted offline access only to those customers, in particular because offline access imposes a burden on the local PC, not Google’s data centers, and makes the service and Google’s cloud computing argument stronger. But it could be an opportunity to sell more subscriptions.

Just yesterday I asked Google about offline access for Gmail and Calendar and they gave me their usual noncommittal reply that more or less indicates it’s in the works.

Two tricky things about Gears is deciding what data to cache locally on a personal and how to synchronize data when a network connection is restored, especially with group-edited content such as documents or calendars. There are hints how Google might go about getting around one challenge, though; according to the Google Operating System blog, some users saw a “Use Google Calendar Offline” note last year that stated Gears would let a user view and edit the next three months of a calendar.

Fogg also twittered another potentially useful extension of the Google Apps service is under way, support for technology called SyncML that would make it easier to synchronize Gmail contacts with the address books of mobile devices. Newer versions of SyncML also support “push e-mail,” which means a mobile device automatically gets new e-mail without having to be commanded to check.

“SyncML for Google contacts next month. Soocial (sic) watchout. My guess: its related to the sync that they worked on with Apple for 3G iPhone,” Fogg said in the Twitter post.

Update 11:02 a.m. PDT: Google offered an official but vague comment on the Gears work in Calendar and Gmail: “We’re working on Gears-enabling a number of our products, but we don’t have a specific timeline to announce.”

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We’ve heard about songs getting released on iLike, Imeem, MySpace, and a whole lot else. But Rock Band?

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That’s on the way, according to Microsoft’s press conference at the E3 Expo. The New York Times reported that that it could be on the way …

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