I’ve written numerous times about my migration and love of Google Gmail. Like many, Gmail is my portal to all my email – it’s configured to send and receive email from just about all my accounts throughout my Internet history. I say just about because until the other day, Microsoft’s Hotmail could not be easily [...]
I was a late holdover to the phenomenon of a free web-based email service. When Hotmail and Yahoo Mail really started gaining traction webmail was pretty slow and cumbersome compared to the experience of a traditional desktop email client – no surprise really. Any email power-user would quickly lose their patience if they were forced [...]
I’m a keyboarder at heart, those that read the site already know that. For me, it’s just a more efficient manner to interact with the computer. If I’m typing away at something but then have to lift my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse, it just breaks the flow. I’ve written in the [...]
Goosh is a “Google Shell” for your browser written by Stefan Grothkopp and it happens to be fairly nifty. The shell like interface allows once to search Google and Wikipedia, returning information in a text only form sans ads. Goosh that’s cool!
A Google search on all but the most obscure of terms return literally thousands of plausible results. There are times that this is very handy, and one of the reasons you likely turned to Google in the first place. But what if you were interested in results from a recent period? Time sensitive items, such [...]