Offline Gmail is Excellent

I think you are going to find you like Offline Gmail. Why its fast.

The article below is also excellent. Good information with good explanation.

clipped from www.pcworld.com When Google yesterday launched a system for accessing Gmail without a Net connection, they promised it would act almost exactly like regular Gmail. From my early testing, it seems like that claim isn't entirely true -- in some ways, offline Gmail actually works better than the online version. The main difference is speed. Regular Gmail is generally fairly quick, but you can still find yourself waiting at times for it to check in with Google's servers. In offline mode or the very cool Flaky Connection Mode, everything -- opening messages, searching for information, labeling missives -- happens almost instantly, since all the data is local. You turn on offline capability through Gmail Labs. If you haven't already, you'll need to install Google Gears, the background system that enables offline capability in services like Google Documents and Zoho Mail. Once you okay Gmail using Gears, it'll start downloading messages

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In-N-Out Burger vs. McDonald’s: Guess Who Won?

They actually surveyed of 94,000 users. How did they miss me?

clipped from blogs.wsj.com Consumers rate regional food chains above national fast-food chains in overall customer experience, according to a recent survey by Sandelman & Associates, a San Clemente, Calif., market research and consumer-trends firm.

Home Prices at 2004 Levels

If you live in one of the 7 green states--congratulations.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com It’s a big week for home price data. Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors reported an unexpected rise in existing-home sales. Today the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index reported record rates of annual decline in 11 of 20 metro areas. Another survey released Monday also shows dramatic price erosion nationwide, this one from First American CoreLogic and its LoanPerformance Home Price Index, which tracks resales of single-family homes. Since peaking in July of 2006, home prices have tumbled 18.5% to levels last seen in the spring of 2004. In November alone, CoreLogic reports a 10.2% year-over-year decline — with early numbers showing continued pain in December — the 10th straight month with declines above 10%.

Going to New York City--Use Google

Plan your New York City trip and get all the maps from Google.

Great link to the Official NYC Information center.

clipped from google-latlong.blogspot.com On the Official Google Blog you can read New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's words about an exciting partnership between NYC and Google.  The partnership is one of the most ambitious projects to leverage our APIs for Google Maps and Google Earth, and it delights us that we've helped New York City develop such a useful and compelling way to explore the city. Check out nycgo.com and the Official NYC Information Center in this video:

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Which global steel maker, identified by ticker symbol, did Jon Najarian examine in his Jan. 21 Stock Blog post?

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On Monday, which bank announced the largest loss in Great Britain's corporate history (as of Jan. 19)?

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EF Hutton: In Cramer's Dec. 22 "outrage" over ultra-short ETFs, where was UltraShort Financials ProShares?

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EF Hutton: In Allen Wastler's blog post, "Time to Start a Fugitive Watch?", which infamous 1970s criminal does he refer to?

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Obama Inaugural Preparations Giving a Boost to Green Businesses

clipped from blogs.wsj.com A million invitations for the presidential inauguration next week have already been sent out. Printed on a Classic Crest Recycled 100 Natural White grade paper, the invitations are made of recycled fiber, with Alpharetta, Ga.-based maker Neenah Paper declaring it as the “greenest premium paper in the world.” “It reaffirms President-elect Obama’s position on the environment,” says Jim Donnelly, of Precise Continental, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based printer, which did the engraving and the press run for the invitations. “He said he’s environmentally friendly and he’s putting his dollars where he said he would. He’s specifying a paper that meets his own criteria.” At the Green Inaugural Ball, the ‘trashion’ trend is on the upswing, which my colleague Stephanie Simon also reported yesterday. Many attendees are being encouraged to car-pool and use public transit. Some are using Segways. Segs in the City, which rents out Segways, says one-third of its fleet has been booked already.

According to Jon Najarian's Tuesday Stock Blog, which biotech saw options trading spike on Eli Lilly deal rumors?

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On Tuesday, the Fast Money team described what group as former "Masters Of The Universe"?

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In his "Bond Outlook '09," Pimco's Paul McCulley is shown juxtaposed with what animal?

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Solar energy project makes advances in costs

At a cost of 7.5 cents a kilowatt-hour it costs less than the 9-cent benchmark for conventional electricity.

clipped from www.latimes.com Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy in San Diego, just took the wraps off a 10-megawatt solar farm in Nevada. That's small by industry standards, enough to light just 6,400 homes. But the ramifications are potentially huge. A veteran analyst has calculated that the facility can produce power at a cost of 7.5 cents a kilowatt-hour, less than the 9-cent benchmark for conventional electricity. If that's so, it marks a milestone that renewable fans have longed for: "grid parity," in which electricity from the sun, wind or other green sources can meet or beat the price performance of such carbon-based fuels as coal and natural gas.

EF Hutton: In the edition of "Pros Say" entitled "Buck Up--And Buy Upgraded Stocks" who upped his rating on stocks to market weight?

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The Disappearing Money Multiplier

I caught this over on Greg Mankiw blog. He is a professor of economics at Harvard University. You can visit his blog and bookmark it by following the link.

Feel free to add you comment and analysis.

clipped from gregmankiw.blogspot.com Econ prof Bill Seyfried of Rollins College emails me: Here's an interesting fact that you may not have seen yet. The M1 money multiplier just slipped below 1. So each $1 increase in reserves (monetary base) results in the money supply increasing by $0.95 (OK, so banks have substantially increased their holding of excess reserves while the M1 money supply hasn't changed by much). Thanks.

Federal Surplus/Deficit, 1950-2008

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In his Millennial Money blog post called "War On Climate Change Over..." what was Cliff Mason's apocalyptic message?

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Twitter Off to a Rough 2009

I caught this over on Digits.
If you are a twitter user you might want t check this out.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com You might be familiar with phishing attacks, those messages sent by criminals that look like they’re from a bank or Nigerian prince. But what about Twishing? The term may enter the tech lexicon this week, thanks to an attack targeting the Web site Twitter, which runs a popular service that lets people share short updates about what they’re doing. (Blame Brian Krebs of the Washington Post if it sticks.) Over the weekend, cyber baddies sent phishing messages via Twitter’s service to other account holders. The message directed people to a Web site that looked like Twitter’s home page, but was really operated by the bad buys. As people logged in to the fake Twitter site, the bad guys captured their user names and passwords. Twitter warned account holders Saturday about the scam in a post on its blog, and advised those concerned to change their passwords.

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Fed Officials Worry Inflation Rates Could Ease Too Much

Fed Officials Worry Inflation Rates Could Ease Too Much

Key words: Fed’s efforts to purchase debt--Fed’s efforts to purchase debt.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com Federal Reserve officials at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association indicated they are growing more worried that inflation rates could get too low. With gasoline prices tumbling, the year-to-year change in the consumer price index is likely to tip into negative territory in the months ahead. Meantime, increases in core consumer prices, which exclude food and energy, have slowed sharply in recent months. Fed officials don’t foresee deflation happening, but they’d like to avoid even getting close to it. “It is especially important in such circumstances for the Fed to emphasize its commitment to returning inflation over time to the higher levels that are most appropriate to the attainment of its longer-term objectives,” Ms. Yellen said. The Fed’s balance sheet has ballooned from less than $900 billion to more than $2 trillion since September Fed’s efforts to purchase debt “have only just begun.”

In a "Fast Money" interview on Dec. 31, how does CEO Howard Levine describe his family business?

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What is Ukraine's state-owned gas company named?

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