The Technology Evangelist asks “Why Use Marginal Email Programs When You Can Use Gmail?” He has excellent reasons, especially
4. Threaded conversations: The next time you find yourself in a long conversation back and forth with a zillion people copied on each email where before long, the entire first page of your inbox is [...]
If Vista’s flipping and flopping windows has your heart a-flutter but you don’t have the video card for it, check out the Tab Effect plugin for Firefox. (Unfortunately, it only works with FF on Windows.)
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The Thermapen is an outright necessity for anyone cooking meat. This will let you deliver meat that is consistently right where want it to be. (Take beef off the heat at 125 and let it rest 15 minutes to hit medium rare, every time.) It’s expensive, but you won’t have to chow [...]
It’s been a while since I checked in with them. It looks like Project HoneyPot is doing a good job of collecting data about spam, spammers, and the way they collect email addresses.
In brief, the project asks webmasters to embed non-visible links on their websites. These links generate pages with non-visible [...]
What if your company wanted to have someone else — someone with a world-class infrastructure, spam and virus filtering, and more storage that you could shake a stick at — host your email system? What if you wanted it to work just like Gmail?
You’d be very happy.
Google is “beta” testing Google hosted [...]
We now have some video up on the podcast site, but in Windows Media Player (wmv) formats. I originally converted the files to an iPod compatible MP4 format, but there were problems with the quicktime plugins on my testers’ computers and there’s no QT plugin at all for Linux.
Things seem to be going better with [...]
Podcasting CCIM educational content - how it was implemented
Google Calendar is now available to anyone with a Gmail account. We run Exchange in-house, but this will let us set up shared calendars with anyone. Cool!
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The Register has a story, linking to this website about a replacement for the standard captcha, test to separate humans from robots. We’re all familiar with captchas: They’re a series of numbers and letters produced as a slightly obscured graphic that we have to decode and enter into a field on a form. [...]
Forget Google Office. This guy is going after Microsoft Office and already has a Word clone up on the web.
Michael Robertson writes:
What if there was alternative for Microsoft Word that would install and open in 6 seconds, read and write Microsoft Word .doc files and run on Macintosh, Microsoft Windows or Linux computers? [...]
