Re: [ubuntu-uk] BooHoo Yahoo

2007-05-07 Thread TheVeech
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 14:16 +0100, Stephen Morrish wrote: The complete Google group of services are good. Hi Stephen. Yes, they are (the Gbutts FF extension is pretty useful - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3576 - esp. with dropdown menu, horizontal). I don't want to install

[ubuntu-uk] BooHoo Yahoo

2007-05-06 Thread TheVeech
Yahoo's reported merger/takeover talks with MS means it's open (!) to selling its independence to the highest bidder. That it's MS they're talking with just emphasises my original stupidity and short-sightedness. I should have been more savvy to the long-term threat of something like this,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BooHoo Yahoo

2007-05-06 Thread Josh Blacker
Google's Picasa is quite good in my experience (and have an ubuntu client running under an integrated, tweaked wine), but doesn't offer nearly as many of the features of Flickr, I'm afraid, but its desktop-web integration is useful. Josh On 5/6/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yahoo's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BooHoo Yahoo

2007-05-06 Thread Stephen Morrish
The complete Google group of services are good. Some of the programs do work nativly under Linux with some exceptions. It's a shame about Gtalk, but you can't have everything... I use several PC's running different OS's, Googles browser sync is a real boon. I would be lost without the spell