Gmail finally has a delete button
It’s about time!
Category «Internet Tips»
Phishing for PayPal information
Like most people, I get a fair number of junk emails pretending to be from a bank, insurance company, credit card company, or PayPal. This morning I thought I’d check out one of the sites and see what happens. I clicked on a nice looking “PayPal” email (that was sent to an email that wasn’t …
2005 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our desires. Considering all that has occurred in 2005, we thought it would be interesting to study just a few of the significant events, and names …
Gmail Changes
Google seems to be making some more changes to Gmail: The “Move to Trash” option of the drop-down menu has now been changed to simply “Delete”. This confused me at first because I was so used to the “Move to Trash” option. I thought this option had been removed entirely. Thankfully it hasn’t. Now if …
GMail Tips & Tricks
Did you know… Gmail does not take dots in consideration. So if your address is myname@gmail.com, someone writes to my.name@gmail.com, or myna.me@gmail.com or m.y.n.a.m.e@gmail.com. All those mails will arrive in your mail box. Don’t worry, this won’t cause your mail to go another GMail user, because when you subscribe your GMail Account, Google verify that …
Inside the Internet Movie Database
From SearchDay: The Internet Movie Database is a standard and respected reference database for film and TV information, but for film, TV and pop-culture fans it’s also a great deal of fun. The IMDB, owned by Amazon.com, is more than just a “enter a movie title or actor’s name and get results” type of service. …
Open source content management platform
In the past, I tried several web site content management solutions such as PHP-Nuke, Xoops, etc. I recently came across another one called Drupal: Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs …
My Google Page Rank
Determine a site (or web page) page rank by filling in the form at http://www.mygooglepagerank.com/ and submitting it. It returns the page rank immediately. As of right now, the page rank for the PCIN Update blog is As of right now, the page rank for the PCIN.net main page is Note: Both of these values …
Gmail increases number of available invites
For the longest time Gmail has given me 50 invitations. If I use a few, within a day or two, I’d be back up to 50. Well, today I noticed that the number of invitations is now 100. I don’t know what they’re waiting for, but if they are willing to let that many people …
isnoop.net urlizer
This tool is meant to take any URL and make it right-clickable. It does not do any sort of encoding or parsing of the URL other than adding ‘http://’ where necessary. You might find this tool handy if you have a URL to a .ra file on your clipboard. Pasting it directly into your browser’s …