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New Gadgetspimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/10/airline.png” width=”305″ height=”162″ align=”right” align=”right” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ /The holiday travel season is just around the corner, ticket prices are sky high, and airlines now charge an extra fee for everything from checking your bags to delivering your pretzels. So this holiday season, you want to pinch every penny for travel that you can. Lucky for you, the internet is filled to the brim with budget travel sites aiming to give you the best deal for your dollar. For this week’s Hive Five, we want you to share your favorite web site for booking your travel. Keep reading for more details, then nominate the site you load when you’re looking for a good ticket at a reasonable price. iPhoto by a href=”http://flickr.com/photos/bcorreira/2539507245/in/photostream/”Cubbie n Vegas/a/i./p pHive Five nominations take place in the comments, where you post your favorite tool for the job. We get hundreds of comments, so to make your nomination clear, please include it at the top of your comment like so: bcodeVOTE: Travel Web Site Goes Here/code/b. emNEW RULE/em: Please don’t include your vote in a reply to another commenter. Instead, make your vote and reply separate comments. If you don’t follow this format, we may not count your vote. To prevent tampering with the results, votes from first-time commenters may not be counted. After you’ve made your nomination, let us know what makes it stand out from the competition./p piAbout the Hive Five/i: The a href=”http://lifehacker.com/tag/hive-five/”Hive Five/a feature series asks readers to answer the most frequently asked question we get—”Which tool is the best?” Once a week we’ll put out a call for contenders looking for the best solution to a certain problem, then YOU tell us your favorite tools to get the job done. Every weekend, we’ll report back with the top five recommendations and give you a chance to vote on which is best. For an example, check out last week’s a href=”http://lifehacker.com/5068945/five-best-url-shrinkers”Hive Five Best URL Shrinkers/a./p br style=”clear: both;”/
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Best Travel Web Sites? [Hive Five Call For Contenders] 30 October 2008 at 6:00 pm by admin
+ Gmail Labs Adds Three New Reply Features [Gmail] By admin 11 September 2008 at 4:00 pm and have No Comments
Gmail Labs has rolled out three new features to beef up the popular email client’s Reply feature. How can you improve something as simple as Reply, you ask? Well, in at least three ways: Quote selected text, Default ‘Reply to all,’ and Vacation time. First, the simple Quote selected text feature generates a reply with the currently selected text. Just select the text you want to quote and then hit ‘r’ (the keyboard shortcut for Reply). This one seems like the most buggy, and the Official Gmail Blog admits it doesn’t work in Chrome or Safari yet. (I even had a little trouble getting it to work in Firefox.) The other worked much better.
The next one is simple: Default ‘Reply to all’ does exactly what it sounds like: replaces the Reply button in the top right of emails with Reply to all by default. The idea behind it:
When we’re working on features for Gmail, the email etiquette on the team is to reply all so everyone involved is kept in the loop. Mark was an intern here this past summer who got frustrated when he’d reply to an email only to realize that he forgot to reply all and had to resend the message. Thus, this Labs feature, which makes reply all your default selection.
It doesn’t change the keyboard shortcuts, so ‘r’ still does a single reply and ‘a’ will reply to all.
Finally, the Vacation time feature adds something tremendous to the vacation auto-responder: It allows you to schedule your vacation so you don’t have to do it manually when your vacation starts—and you don’t forget to turn it off once you get back. It’s simple, smart, and fills a need. Doesn’t get much better than that.
