Gmail adds offline access
Although it’s been rumored, Google finally has released an offline version of Gmail through Google Gears. If you don’t have it installed yet, you can download Google Gears here.
To enable this feature first click on the Labs icon and enable Offline mode:
Afterwards, click on the “Offline 0.1″ link in the top right hand corner next to the labs icon and allow Gmail to install the Offline option.
E-mails will begin to be downloaded after the installation. You can then expand the download box for more information:
If you don’t have this feature yet, please keep in mind that Google typically rolls these features out over the course of several days.
Auto white balance
I got a Nikon D60 recently and honestly I’ve been using it as a fancy point and shoot the first month but I’m slowly exploring the various settings.
One thing that’s always bugged me is the auto white balance leads to overly “warm” shots in incandescent lighting:
Process wait script
Often times I would run commands that depended on processes to finish on another tab within a screen session. Unfortunately, bash’s wait command only works within the existing shell, so I came up with a quick script to check versus executable name.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then
while pgrep ^$1 > /dev/null; do sleep 1; done;
else
echo "Invalid Arguments"
exit 1
fi
Obviously it’s a pretty simple script, and currently only matches commands at the beginning. A simple modification to check for pids instead would be fairly simple.
