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I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. I have come to prefer Chrome as my favorite browser, but there was no Roboform integration, and I just can’t survive without Roboform (a password manager, but also a way to manage all sorts of sensitive information and keep it encrypted). As of April 14, Roboform [...]
Google Maps for our area is utterly and completely unreliable, but still manages to violate the privacy of a private citizen. How can it be this bad.
ChaCha answers questions on anything and everything. Even annual bowling deaths. Sometimes they don’t check their sources so well though. I sure wouldn’t take health advice off ChaCha!
Read why I don't trust ChaChaUntil recently, in Twitter you had to burn a lot of characters retweeting people. Twitter fixed that, but also destroyed a lot of the social proof one got from a retweet.
Read why I dislike the new retweet function »I’ve been thinking about what I like and don’t like on Twitter and why I follow some people and block others. In short: don’t spame me and I’m not actually that interested in whether or not you’re doing laundry.
Thinking about Twitter — follow this link and maybe I'll follow you »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 »Finding all your unlabeled Gmail messages can be a chore. If you find yourself wanting to do that regularly, here’s how to build a bookmark for your link bar so you can have single-click access to all Gmail messages without a label.
Read on to achieve unlabeled gmail message mastery. Sort of »I’ve been on a long quest for an email client that I like. Granted, my wish list ranged from simple (must not crash constantly) to less simple (synch address books with online account). Despite high resource usage and some interface shortcomings, I think the new version of Yahoo! Zimbra is it. Finally, something to get [...]
What's so great about Zimbra? Read on »Short version: create a label (like ‘aaDelete’), enable keyboard shortcuts, use ‘l’, then label the message aaDelete, then ‘k’ to go to the next message. When you’re all done, select all messages labelled delete and then delete them. It’s sort of like a second Trash can since Google won’t make the first one work right.
Until there's an actual delete and go next button in Gmail, try this -»Arrgghh! You try to access an IMAP account via Thunderbird and it just won’t work. Don’t despair!
Thunderbird crashes? Rebuild the Index »
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