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Click to zoom: Gmail’s new Preview Pane option shows the contents of an email without leaving your inbox. Just a day after unveiling a variety of upgrades to its mobile Gmail interface, Google took the wraps off a new Labs feature for the desktop edition of its famed webmail client: Preview Pane. In a blog post announcing Preview Pane, associate product manager Maciek Nowakowski [...]

Click to zoom: Gmail’s new Preview Pane option shows the contents of an email without leaving your inbox. Just a day after unveiling a variety of upgrades to its mobile Gmail interface, Google took the wraps off a new Labs feature for the desktop edition of its famed webmail client: Preview Pane. In a blog post announcing Preview Pane, associate product manager Maciek Nowakowski [...]

If you’re like me you take a lot of photos with your iPhone. Some of them you might want to keep; most of them likely lose their novelty on a second viewing. There are various ways to get your photos from your iPhone to your Mac, where it’s much easier to decide which is which. Let’s go over how to import your iPhone photos to the two programs that come with the Mac, Image Capture [...]

Scenario: You’ve obtained an audio or video file that’s either in a format unsupported by the device you intend to play it on—an iOS device, traditional iPod, or your Mac, for example—or in a form that you’d prefer to not use (large AIFF or WAV audio files, for example). There are scads of utilities you can use to convert media files (and some of them aren’t marketed by spammers), but [...]

While Skype has long been available on the iPhone, iPad users have had to make do with using the iPhone version in super-sized mode. On Tuesday, though, Skype at long last released an iPad-native version of its VoIP client in the App Store. The release hasn’t been without its hiccups, however. In late June, a video of the program’s interface surfaced online, leading many to believe [...]