Jetpack
A recent project over at Mozilla Labs, has recently grabbed my attention and hasn't quite let go yet. It's a very interesting concept: Allow people to create simple extensions to the browser using web languages (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). In effect, allowing extensions to be built by people without knowledge of more complex programming languages. The effect? More useful extensions with a much lower footprint.
One extension that I've admired for quite some time now is GMail Checker by James Nisbet. What it does is quite simple, but yet it replaces another addon I used to use (GMail Manager). What's even more amazing is that it's programmed in CSS, JavaScript, and HTML, which means it's very lightweight. As of its latest version, it also has support for Google Apps hosted e-mail.
I think everyone should head over to Jetpack.MozillaLabs.com and watch the video about it, which explains the extension a little bit better.
Google drops ‘beta’ tag from Google Apps products (Gmail, Google Docs, etc.)
After 5 years of officially being in 'beta', the company finally seems to have dropped this tag (officially) from the products in their Google Apps suite. Now all of the companies that feared using the products (Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Talk) because of that one little word (which has become meaningless online; although for Google, it had more internal meaning than anything) may now enjoy the array of benefits that you can only find at Google.
Over 1.75 billion businesses are currently using Google Apps, according to Google. Also, Google has made it clear that they will "continue to innovate and improve upon the applications whether or not there's a small "beta" beneath the logo".
Read the original article at Google's Official Blog.
Of course, if you happened to enjoy seeing that little Beta tag, Google feels for you! They've included a labs tool entitled "Back to Beta" which is described as "Soothes the soul by putting the familiar beta sticker back on the Gmail logo." Be sure to enable that to make the transition on your own terms 
Heh.
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