Josh Young

Everyone’s talking about Google’s new addition to Gmail today. They’ve added IMAP support.

What the heck is IMAP, you may ask? Well, let’s just say that it’s a very cool way to use e-mail.

Say you have an iPhone and a Gmail account. You’d like to be able to use the mail app on your iPhone, but you’d also still like to be able to login to Gmail when you’re at a computer and view it over the web. And you want them both to be the same (you’re awful demanding, aren’t you). So if you check a message on your iPhone, you want it to show that you’ve read it and/or moved it online too.

Well, with IMAP, that’s exactly what happens.

I could explain more, but why would I when so many other people have already done it? If you want to read the nerdy details, check out Wikipedia’s IMAP entry for more info.

Read more:

• Official Google Blog
• Lifehacker
• Ragamuffin Soul
• Leave it Behind
• Lifehacker (again)

Edit:

Here’s the video Jeff referenced below.

Looks like iTunes is dropping their DRM-free iTunes Plus music from $1.29 to $0.99 (which is the same price as their regular DRM music).

I posted recently about Amazon’s new DRM-free MP3’s. Good to see that it’s spurring on changes.

HT: Lifehacker

This morning on my way to work, I stopped and picked up a copy of Alter Bridge’s new release, Blackbird. I’m a huge Alter Bridge fan (although not as hardcore as my friend, Ryan), and this CD definitely does them justice. It’s a little different than their first release, One Day Remains, but definitely different good, not different bad.

I was a little worried after listening to samples online last week - they were all pretty wussy. However, for some reason they picked the worst parts of the CD to put on the samples. The full CD just flat rocks. Definitely worth the $10.

There are several versions of the CD out there. Wal-Mart’s version includes a DVD with the making of the album (which is the version I bought). Best Buy includes two additional songs. A couple of places online include autograph covers (if there’s any left).

Go give it a listen.

Alter Bridge

Well, I have officially entered the Facebook realm. Up until this point, I had kind of ignored it, but I thought maybe it was time I check it out. Interesting social network. A lot easier to find people that you would “want” to find. I’ve got a link to my profile in the sidebar here if you’re interested.

I guess maybe I’ll start paying attention to all of the Facebook blog postings I read about now relating to the church.