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By now many of you have heard that Google has a new web-based spreadsheet product called Google Spreadsheets. I heard about it yesterday, and immediately went to sign-up. It is a closed beta, so I filled in my email address to ask for an invitation, and a few hours later I had one: Thanks for …
I virtually never use my Yahoo! account for anything. However, yesterday I logged in for the first time in months and was prompted to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Wow! It’s very impressive. It’s much better looking then the Windows Live Mail Beta, and seems to have more features. If you have a Yahoo! …
I get the Microsoft TechNet magazine, and the latest issue had a good article on Deconstructing Common Security Myths: In our book Protect Your Windows Network, we wrote about “security myths”—things that many people believe are true about security, but which really are not… Our version of these myths is, of course, just our opinion. …
As you may be aware, one of the ways that Google determines where to rank a page for a particular search term is by its PageRank. This essentially rates the quality of a page in the Google index. It does this in a number of ways, one of which is the number of links to …
The oft-rumoured Google Calendar finally made its appearance this week and it looks impressive. The only thing I’m not sure of, is who actually needs a web-based calendar? If you are a business user, you are most likely using Outlook or something else similar. If you are a home user, then you’ve probably found something …
If you run a web site, then you should definitely check out this web site. The BackLink Analyzer Tool gives you access to sites that link to you, who owns that site, the Google cache of these pages, and more… Information The Backlinks Analyzer gives Number of Links to Domain Number of Links to Homepage …
Quite a while ago I posted about Box.net Virtual Storage. I still haven’t tried the service, as I don’t really have a need for it, but it’s interesting. One of the guys who is at Box.net has been in contact with me regarding a test that they were running (I didn’t end up participating). He …
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the new Google Page Creator Beta. When I heard about it a few days ago, I went to sign up for an account, and as is usually the case, with their beta releases, they had stopped allowing new sign-ups. I went again today, and was able to login with …
Gmail Skins is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things). It adds the following features: Change the colour/skin of your inbox Insert smileys/emoticons and images in to your emails Make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal Fix the navigation in place so that …
My post on Windows Live Mail Beta impressions has generated several comments, the majority of them negative. For some reason people are getting locked out of their Hotmail accounts. I’ve never had this problem and still think that the new Hotmail is far superior to the old one. If the negative experiences don’t scare you …