By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] When Google revised the PageRanks recently, my blog got bumped up to a 6 and that has got me thinking about starting to sell some advertising space. But if I was being truthful with myself for a moment, I would admit that I am a really lazy person sometimes. The idea […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Gmail is taking new steps toward becoming a large-scale client solution. In what’s billed as one of the world’s largest Gmail rollouts ever conducted, an Australian school system is dumping its Outlook setup in lieu of a completely Gmail-based e-mail system for its 1.3 million students. The transition — […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] While idly browsing online today (as one often does on a Sunday afternoon), I had a look at the options on the new Stumbleupon toolbar for Firefox 3 to see if anything new was there. I was intrigued to discover this: It turns out that you can export ALL of […]
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
I have always been a bit of a sucker for new toys and gadgets, especially ones on the internet and Twitterfone is now officially “my new toy”. The invite code has been sitting in the wreckage that is called my email inbox for the past couple of weeks now and it was only today that I finally got around to activating the code and seeing what Twitterfone was all about. As soon as I did so, I got that gleam in my eye and my girlfriend said to her friend who was around, “uh, oh, I know that look…..I’ll never get Mark off the computer now!”
So what is Twitterfone all about?
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A man, whose partner of 12 years walked out on him, plans to start a new life – but not in the traditional sense. He plans to start a completely new life by auctioning his entire old life on eBay and walking away with nothing except his passport and […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Mozilla has a nifty looking downloads map which breaks down all the Firefox 3 downloads country by country. Download Squad previously commented that Turkmenistan was letting the side down with seven downloads but they must have seen the article and got all embarrassed because they suddenly picked up speed […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Need a second opinion before you make your next electronics purchase? A new social network called PEBuzz (Personal Electronics Buzz) hopes to help. The site, launched about a month ago, features user-generated reviews and opinions on everything from high-end TVs to random gadgets. The site lets you set up […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] In a landmark ruling, a US federal appeals court has declared that employers are not allowed to read employees work emails and text messages without getting a warrant first. But the ruling only applies to situations where the company outsources its email and texts to an outside company and […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] You only have to look at the issue of online file sharing to see how different the European Union is. Some political parties in Scandinavia want to legalise it while German prosecutors think it’s a waste of their time and taxpayers money even prosecuting such “petty offenses”. But France […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to Mozilla’s official live downloads page, Firefox 3 is about to hit 8 million downloads (at the time of writing this, it was at around 7.9 million and rising VERY fast). This is in the first 24 hours of its release. According to the page, this translates to […]