Flexamail, Access Social Network from Your Email... for China?

After Egypt incident, Flexamail kicks in as a service provider that allows people to access their favorite social network directly from email. Their API access your Facebook or Twitter and can pull recent updates or tweets. Although you do need to find a way to authorize the accounts first before you can do this, I've tested it and it's pretty handy. Once you've set it, its not necessary for you to logon to Flexamail, the emails are delivered straight to your personal inbox of your choice. Flexamail is just a medium or bridge between your errr... Internet Freedom and your inbox.

You will also get an instruction manual via email on the different email address and function, best to save these into your address book as they are quite long. You can basically do image hosting, retrieve file up to 25 MB, browse website (its done by saving the website in a pdf format, Facebook and Twitter - follow, search, reply to a tweet, send photos, etc. You can learn more here, currently it is free (I suspect they are getting fund through advertising, hey somebody got to pay the bills right).

This can be the answer for China and a way around the Great Firewall, as it is difficult to block email servers... but then again we may never know. Let me know if anyone has been using this constantly from China? I don't use it a lot, as I found it tiring after a while sending those emails and waiting for a reply and then having to send another reply... simply put quite a lot of emails exchange.

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Upgrade to the new MobileMe Calendar, now with sharing

Apple's fans and loyal MobileMe user will receive a new upgrade on their calendar for free.
I can understand the upgrade, as I found that if I am syncing based from my mac and from the mobileme calendars or contacts for that, I get duplicates and it ticks me off as I get two alarms notice for everything.
There are some system requirements, but I'm sure you're up to date to the latest version :)

Here are some of the new features:
  • The best calendar sync service for Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
  • Share calendars with family and friends
  • Publish a calendar for a group or team
  • Event invitations with RSVPs
  • New web application
Here are also links to Apple (click on the operating platform links) on how to make sure it syncs into your iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad, Mac OS and Windows.

I do am wondering when the native Mac OS X email application will get another upgrade? I mean they do look old and new a new refresh just like web version of me that is cool.

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Apple: Upgrade on Email System - MobileMe

Everyone that knows me, knows that I love design and innovative or cutting edge products and nobody does it better than Apple, or at least public wise.

I was so excited today when I saw the new design and layout of the new MobileMe account, the layout seems bigger. Slight improvement on response time and better looking. For me the design and feel does matter a lot. There was some glitches still as this is still a testing phase I guess, when you delete an email an move on to the next one, the preview pane or window got stuck on the old one, no matter new or other email you clicked on. The new mail composer is also looking very chic and more font customization, etc.

Anyway, great delivery - an email notifying it's my turn now, linking to the website on what's new and exciting feature they have. I'm hoping they will upgrade the address book, photo, calendar, etc too (like the one on iPad, wouldn't that be cool?). In today's Internet evolution, I guess you cannot wait until your product is "fully perfect", selecting several audience as your guinea pig might actually do you product better, as they can provide you real user experience. Announcing via email, linking with your company blog will also deliver a lot of more powerful product experience. But, keep it simple & neat.

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