Use Gmail Drafts to Mail Yourself Unallowed Files [Gmail Tip]

Lifehacker reader Eric wanted to get in on the limited Microsoft Morro download, so he grabbed it at work and tried to email himself. Gmail killed the sending due to virus concerns, but Eric could still grab it later.

Gmail's Flash-based attachments grabs your files as you select them, including any .exe program files or other items that will eventually trip Gmail's security filters. When sending fails, however, the draft, and the server-stored attachment, are still there. Eric arrived home, therefore, and found his attached Morro installer still on his email in the Drafts folder, which could be right-clicked and downloaded with ease.

Gmail's attachment limit is 25MB at the moment, and while the Flash-based uploader sometimes doesn't appear and doesn't have guaranteed upload success, Eric's accidental discovery of what he calls an "Instant Dropbox, at a workplace where Dropbox and other file-sending sites are blocked, is a great work-around. Thanks for the tip, Eric!

Got your own file-sending solutions for places where the filters are strong? Tell us all about them in the comments.

Ordenador que puede leer los labios y reconocer idiomas

por : Jesús Maturana: 25 Abr 2009, 6:47

Científicos ingleses han desarrollado un ordenador que no sólo es capaz de leer los labios sino que también puede reconocer diferencias entre idiomas gracias al uso de un modelado estadístico de 23 habladores bilingües y trilingües.

Investigadores de la Universidad de East Anglia, School of Computing Sciences, han desarrollado una nueva tecnología que hace capaz a un ordenador identificar el idioma hablado por una persona con un alto nivel de precisión, pudiendo identificar el idioma entre los siguientes: inglés, francés, alemán, árabe, mandarín, cantonés, italiano, polaco y ruso.

Gantter Does Project Management in Your Browser [Project Management]

Web-based project management tool Gantter has an interface that looks remarkably similar to Microsoft Project—and even lets you import and export your Project files.

Using the application is fairly simple—just start adding tasks and resources just like you would on the desktop version of Microsoft Project. Once you've finished, you can download the project as an XML file, which can then be imported back into Project. You can import projects, open saved files, and use the wide array of keyboard shortcuts all from a web-based interface that works anywhere and requires no account to use—making this worth a look for anybody dealing with project plans and TPS reports.

Gantter is free to use, available in your web browser. For more, read about project management in a nutshell, check out free hosted project management with Clocking IT, or replace Microsoft Project with the open-source OpenProj. Thanks, Climbup!