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Lately, the GMail team has been sort of pissing me off, with various things. Recent versions of GMail didn’t work on Chrome on one of my computers (yes, didn’t work on their own browser on my computer). They got rid of the Offline version. Well, I don’t always have connectivity and it felt like Google [...]
Dropbox has come under fire for not being as secure as we’ve perhaps been led to believe, but Secret Sync and Spider Oak promise more secure alternatives.
Sometimes a Word document you get from someone else will have some strange characters that do not render correctly, either due to missing fonts or incompatible character encoding. Here’s how to find them and get rid of them.
After hating on iTunes player for a long time, but being locked into sometimes using it, I’m free thanks to cancelling my Audible subscription and switching to eMusic. I know, we’re all supposed to love Apple and iTunes and every product they create. I don’t. Here’s why.
For a few days, my offline Gmail was refusing to synch up with the server. Every time I would try, I would instantly get an ! in the synch status and it would say “Synchronization has stopped unexpectedly”. Well, yeah. I had figured that part out. I’m sure there are lots of reasons for this, [...]
Always looking for a better way to synch my laptop and desktop, so I tried Live Mesh. After many computer crashes, narrowly escaped with my data intact. So I’m back to Allway Synch, which has, in over a year of intense daily use, put my data at risk.
Read about my Live Mesh disaster »Word 2007 has a slick new interface. I like it. Now if only it weren’t broken! Here’s a list of the things that, off the top of my head, appear broken in Word 2007.
Word 2007 is broken, you say? Yes I do »I sometimes find myself on public hotspots at a hotel or airport or what have you. And sometimes, the reason I’m online is because I have to pay a bill or do some other sort of business. I know that on an open network, I’m putting myself at risk and it always makes me really [...]
Is Hotspot Shield the solution to surfing on public wifi? »I just discovered Google Charts. I’d never heard of it before, but I’m the sort of person who reads an article and scans for numbers and flips for charts, so this seemed pretty cool. Essentially, it’s an API that lets you create a chart with a simple URL.
See sample charts from Google Charts »No, that title isn’t a typo. It’s a sarcastic comment on the “genius” of the login screen for the iTunes Genius feature which, as it turns out, is the same as the iTunes store login. It took me four tries to figure out how to log in.
Not so Genius. Read on »
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