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Mac Dock Icon Spelling by Mike Giepert

Mike Giepert discovered a novel use for the icons in his dock — spelling out words like “sex,” “props” and “agoraphobe!”

He asked the readers of his blog to submit their own. See some of the results after the jump. Much more here.

Via SwissMiss.

By Mike Giepert

By Peter Collins

By Mike Giepert

This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp.

Posted by Zach Yeskel, Product Marketing Manager

If you got 100 new messages, how long would it take you to get through them all? An hour? Five minutes? How would you find the important ones, reply to the ones that require an immediate reply, and mark the ones that you needed to take care of later? Would you use stars, filters, keyboard shortcuts, labels? What about Gmail Labs like tasks or canned responses?

Everybody has their own system for managing email, but some are definitely more efficient than others. Even if you only get a few messages a day, there are probably some simple things you can do to make it easier to get through your inbox and maybe even have a little fun along the way. We know time is valuable, so we asked lots of Googlers for their tips and tricks on how they make the most of Gmail, and we combined the best of these into a guide at www.gmail.com/tips, cheekily entitled "Become a Gmail Ninja." The tips are categorized into ninja belts (white, green, black and master ) based on how much mail you get each day.

For a handy reference that you can pin to your wall or keep on your desk, we even made a printable version of the guide where all the tips fit on one page front and back. And for the first 1024 of you who want them, we’ll send a limited-edition, laminated guide for free. Just fill out this form with your address. Sorry, we can only ship to addresses in the US. If you’re not one of the lucky 1024, you can still buy a laminated guide at www.barcharts.com.

If you’re already a Gmail ninja and have your own tips you’d like to share, let us know and we’ll add the best ones to the online guide.

*Our lawyers asked us to make sure it was clear that your contact information won’t be maintained longer than necessary to send you the laminated guide and that this offer is “void where prohibited and only while supplies last.”

Update (11:59am): Well, that was fast. We’ve run out of the free laminated guides, but if you weren’t part of the first 1024 people to sign up, you can still can buy them for $1.25 at www.barcharts.com/gmail.

UPDATE: Reports now say work was being done to repair the crack in the weeks leading up to the collapse.

A four story building collapsed in Brooklyn today, just before 2pm. The “Vesper Bar & Lounge” at 493 Myrtle Avenue is completely unrecognizable after the collapse, which saw no casualties and four minor injuries, according to early reports. The Bar was closed at the time and emergency services are still on the scene.

Images of the fallen building were quickly posted to photo-sharing sites Twitpic (here and here) and Yfrog (here and here). But what makes this story more intriguing is that the imagery on Google Maps Street View clearly shows a large crack running up the front of the building (below).

One of the New York Times’ local blogs reports that:

The building was cited last month for having a crack running from the first floor to the third. The May 1 complaint from the Buildings Department says “Approx 1/2 inch to 1 inch wide vertical crack line in east wall (east south corner) facade from 1st to 3rd floor.” The inspection also found cracks on the interior wall on the third and fourth floors.

While Google Street View is sometimes viewed as invasive, eroding privacy yet further as more of our lives are captured and digitized, the event shows an unexpected benefit: images that once seemed irrelevant are suddenly at the center of a major news event.

See also: Top 15 Google Street View Sightings

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Tags: Google, Google Maps, new york, street view, twitpic

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