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  • Using OpenDNS.com to protect your family

    I was a little surprised that someone I talked to last night hadn't heard of this amazing service, and even more surprised that I hadn't blogged about this before. If you have a router at home - and surely most of my audience does - you need to set it to use OpenDNS.  Do it today. It's free furchrissakes. There are many ...
    Posted to British Inside (Weblog) by James on August 29, 2008
  • Few Google tips

    As I find them.. Gmail: I've seen 20-30 good emails caught in spam, so check it often while you train it. Since I don't want to check the same message twice, I mark the spam as read whenever I check it. Then, to check just the unread spam you can search for in:spam is:unread. Here's a list of other neat search terms. Google ...
    Posted to British Inside (Weblog) by James on March 18, 2008
  • Living in Gworld

    Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's tweet this morning about Google Apps for business, perhaps that's only temporary! Go ...
    Posted to British Inside (Weblog) by James on March 13, 2008
  • Quickie Updates

    In the spirit of GTD I have to do a brain dump here every so often. There are a lot of small bloggable items that aren't worth blogging seperately. Here they are: Many of the Community Server (CS) team had fun at the weekend, myself ncluded, writing CS Modules for a little impromptu contest that ScottW organised. As his IM says this morning ''I ...
    Posted to British Inside (Weblog) by James on January 25, 2006
  • Brain Dump

    Some very interesting articles came onto my screen over the last few days: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far  For card-carrying Geeks only, this article is worth reading on two counts: 1. because Mark is damn impressive and 2. Sony are being very naughty Diamonds are for never (sic) A great thought-provoking essay ...
    Posted to British Inside (Weblog) by James on November 1, 2005
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