Pro Tip: Hold Option (Alt in Windows) while editing an Answer post to expose some extra publishing options!
Google+ has some great mobile web app polish to make it behave like a native app. For example: if you’re viewing a friend’s profile, then tap on their name in a post, the page doesn’t needlessly refresh or lose your place at all. Same goes for when you tap an app in Google’s new app tab along the top of its mobile pages. Nothing happens, because you’re already there.
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The Reeder for Mac site leverages some impressive HTML animation tricks.
Update: Thanks to Brett Taylor for this one: just like on a Mac, you can Shift-click to experience the animation transitions at roughly half speed.
When posting a new status message on Facebook, it displays a lock icon with a downward pointing triangle next to the Share button. Clicking on it brings up a menu that allows you to make that status available for everyone to view, restrict it to your friends of friends, or to just your own friends.
If you click on the Customize option, it brings up the window displayed above. Here, you can make your status visible to specific people or to all the people on one or more of your friends lists. Alternatively, you can go in the opposite direction and restrict certain of your friends from viewing that status.
On a social network like Facebook, where you are simultaneously friends with not just your real life buddies but also friends made online, acquaintances, family members, and colleagues from work, this feature gives you powerful ways to filter your posts for just the people you want.
Facebook’s share bookmarklet now offers more options for where to share something you found, including a friend’s wall or a group you participate in.
The New York Times’ Chrome-optimized layout requests up to 50MB of storage space for saving stories locally.
⌘⇧D sends mail in the MobileMe mail web app just as it does in Mail.app in Mac OS.
If you stop using Gmail’s Priority Inbox feature for a couple weeks, then return, it welcomes you back with a one-click cleanup option that de-prioritizes a bunch of your old important mail. The amount of mail that gets shifted from your priority inbox to your regular inbox is unspecified, and there is no undo option.
A self-hosted web app, similar to ThinkUp, that lets you archive, browse, and search your Twitter account. You’ll need your own web host, PHP 5.2, and MySQL 4.1.
via Chris Bowler
When saving a bookmark to Pinboard, the feature-packed “anti-social” alternative to Delicious, you can use Markdown in the bookmark’s notes field.
via Brett Terpstra
