Gmail finally brings us push mail to our iPhone and Windows Mobile, though if you are an iPhone user, Push Gmail would only work if you are running iPhone OS version 3.0 or newer. Ah, this is just yet another reason for me to upgrade the OS of my iPhone.

A year ago, I would be ecstatic if I had Push Gmail since I was living in my Gmail inbox back then but now, I have moved on and email is not as important as it was before. I still need my email but that’s no longer a priority.

Anyway, if you are using Push mail, whether Gmail or some other email services, you should know that Push is a battery killer especially if you set it to push instantly like I did with my Nokia E61i. It really isn’t practical if you are always on the move. Sure, email is so important to many of us that we need to read it as soon as it hits our inbox but then what good is the phone when battery runs dry?

Google is planning to make Google Docs like documents, presentations and spreadsheets that are publicly published to be available for search on the web. While this is good and yet another option for linking *ahem*, I think that better documentation is needed so that users know specifically what to do if they do not want their Docs to be available in search results.

According to the post on Google’s Support Forum, only documents that are published “as web page” or “publish/embed” and linked from a public webpage will be crawled and indexed. Those Docs published with the option that allows “anyone with a link to view” will not be crawled. Users of Google Docs could also choose to “unpublish” content they wish to remain uncrawled.

I do not use Google Docs because I don’t relish the thought of an accident happening where my private documents are easily available on the web, so this doesn’t affect me but I think it’s pretty exciting and a new ball game for those who are in the linking business, if you know what I mean. 😛

Google has released its latest version of Chrome (3.0), one year after the launch of its Chrome browser which is purportedly the fastest web browser around. Chrome 3.0 comes with bug fixes, new features and improvements, particularly when running JavaScript.

I actually installed Google Chrome on my computer since its launch, trying it out for a while and didn’t like it and did not feel that it’s particularly fast. I didn’t use the browser for a long time, sticking to IE and FireFox but there was an issue with my Internet Explorer somehow, which butchered the display of Facebook for reasons unknown and which made me switch to Firefox as my default browser.

But lately, I started to use Chrome because I have to log in to two Facebook accounts at the same time to play games and FireFox and Chrome allow me to stay logged into two different Facebook accounts without logging me out of one.

With the new release, I will have to upgrade and see what new features have been added and see if running JavaScript is now a smoother experience. So far, running Java games that I play on Facebook, I get too many error notices about plug in unresponsive and my browser jams for a few moments every time I open a new page.

A couple of posts back, I mentioned that I am single. Well, I am fine with my status except that I have to concede that sometimes loneliness creeps in. When I was told of this online dating website called RecoveryDate that is dedicated to people in recovery, it just hits me that people in recovery who are single probably feel the loneliness a thousand times more acute than I do.

I think that with an online dating website like RecoveryDate, people who are in recovery would get to socialize online with others who are on the same boat and also looking for friendship, companionship or even life partner. I feel that since these people share a similar past, they get accepted easily without having to explain themselves to new friends or justify their past actions or old habits.

People who are in recovery may have problems socializing in the real world because of society norms and perceptions but a website like RecoveryDate provides these people anonymity until they are comfortable with the other party enough to reveal and share more information about themselves.

People in recovery need friends who are supportive but it is even more important to have an understanding partner. What better way to look for one than on an online dating site like RecoveryDate?

I received an email notice from Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, Inc. last night, regarding Twitter’s updated Terms of Service. It’s commendable that they sent a notice out to all users. You would be surprised that there are companies that changed their Terms of Service without an alert to users so that if we do not agree with the new terms, we could stop using their service.

Out of curiosity, I went to check out their spanking new Terms of Service but I am lazy to read what the terms that have changed and which are the original terms. Let’s be honest. Who has the time to read in detail these long user agreements, right? And who would remember them?

So off I went to the Twitter blog to find out what exactly has changed. They have a brief overview of the changes but it doesn’t really tell me how that would affect me. I guess we will only find out when Twitter decides to implement changes that are in the back burner now and then know how those changes affect us when they do!

If you are a Twitter.com user, go and check the new Terms of Service and try to spot the differences.

This morning, I accessed my Gmail as I do daily and was a little shocked when I received a note on my screen saying that my Gmail was temporarily unavailable. I hardly ever encounter this before but I cannot say never, though. This time was a little different with the server error code of 500. Even the display page was a little different.

Anyway, even though I do not have anything important in my email, when I couldn’t access my account when I wanted to and it doesn’t work as it should, I get pissed off and then my heart sinks thinking that may be a problem with my account and that my email has been wiped out.

You know, we have so many email stored in various folders, I am sure we wouldn’t even notice anything different if one or two mails went missing until we want certain information and go digging for it in our archived mail.

Luckily, this happened for just a short while and I was able to access my account upon pressing F5. And then I was able to breathe again. LOL

The Fan Check application on Facebook has caused tremendous concern among all my Facebook buddies over the past couple of days when suddenly, everyone is tagged in one photo or another. On the surface, it is quite a fun application to use as it scans the user’s Facebook profile to see which friends interact the most on the profile by posting on the wall, etc, and ranks these friends accordingly.

Fan Check was at first named Stalker Check but was forced to change its name by Facebook but the following day after the sludge of Fan Check photos on my newsfeed, Facebook apparently announced that it is a virus like Koobface. I don’t know how far true this is because I didn’t get any notification from Facebook. Some of my friends say they did, some, like me, did not.

However, I could say that at first, I thought I would want to use Fan Check to see which “joke” visits my profile the most to post on my wall but since I knew the answer already, I didn’t need an application to tell me. I could say that Fan Check was installed on my Facebook account even though I did not install it myself, merely just checking out the photo that I was tagged. I untagged it after receiving the warning about the virus and deleted Fan Check from my profile.

Even with Fan Check cleared from my newsfeed, I guess Facebook was doing a clean up in the background, along came something eerily similar called All My Friends. I wasn’t tagged in any of these All My Friends photos; I guess my 1000+ friends in Facebook are smarter or more cautious this time around, and you can bet that if I was tagged, this time I would not be clicking on the photo to have a look just to be on the safe side, virus or not!