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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 ...

My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month or so and reading it there. When I went on vacation for a week I was reading it on my phone ...

I went to renew my Microsoft Partner Program membership today before it runs out at the end of the month. For a few hundred bucks I get 10 copies of XP and Office to use around the house - there are other benefits, but that alone makes me renew each year. This year, something is different. I'm now using FF as my default browser... So when I ...

Ok, I ought to give credit where it's due because you won't find this great example of "how to do PR properly" unless you're searching the site. Floyd Price of Code Spaces posted a comment on an old Subversion post and did a great job of answering my pointed questions. I haven't switched; I haven't even ...

This experiment is fascinating. I now have CA's version of CallingID toolbar in FF/IE and it is really interesting to watch. The big names are obviously all green, but some very well known sites are yellow. Most small sites are yellow, but some are red. Red causes all sorts of traffic to leave immediately I'd imagine. Or not even go there ...

I was offered a free year of credit monitoring a.k.a Identity Theft Protection with Equifax, so I signed up today. If you're ever going to use a super-strong password I suggest Equifax is the place. So I made up a nice strong one; mixtures of upper and lower case, numbers, punctuation. Nice. Except Equifax, the people that "serve our ...

A good few years ago I started another company to run some local city websites. At one point I had created a few thousand city sites and was making some decent coin from selling ads to local businesses. The idea didn't scale unfortunately - although I could easily sell enough ads to make a good living none of the people that signed up for ...

Wow, I just LOVE this idea. Ordered. [include:blogad]

Nice new service from thycotic; www.shortersigs.com offers a way to replace that long-winded email signature with a free URL that points to your personalized profile. You can set up any number of profiles with different amounts of information and use accordingly. My Telligent sig (below) doesn’t give my home address or phone number for ...