"Once you put it out on the Web, it's always exists." "Oh yeah, well then why can't I find what I'm looking for?" If you put anything of significance on Twitter or just want to keep a copy of everything for yourself, you'll probably want to keep a copy of your Tweets. Between Twitter's downtime or "Older tweets are temporarily unavailable.", off-loading from Twitter seems … [Read more...]
Gmail Prioritizes Your Inbox
Gmail will be rolling out a beta service called Priority Inbox to all Gmail users over the next week. You can check out the new service once the red 'New! Priority Inbox' link shows up in the top-right corner of your Gmail. Priority Inbox will work by adding three different sections to your Inbox: first for important messages, second for starred, and third for everything … [Read more...]
Is it Possible to Live by Best Practices?
If there can be Christmas in July then I guess another round of New Years' resolutions in August isn't too far off. For the past couple of weeks I've been trying to live by best practices in a few key areas: following the principle of least privilege, using strong passwords that aren't reused across multiple sites, and using No-Script in my web browser to protect against … [Read more...]
First Beta of Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
Microsoft released the first beta of the Visual Studio LightSwitch IDE earlier this week. It's designed to allow non-programmers create business applications and allow programmers of various levels to create applications quickly. It simplifies the process and allows doing many common functions like coding a database interaction to be done from a visual perspective. If you need … [Read more...]
Google Offers VoIP Right in Gmail
US users of Gmail will be getting a new feature in their inbox, the ability to make and receive calls right inside of Gmail. This seems like a perfectly predictable expansion of the Google Voice service and chat/video chat already offered within Gmail. Google seems to think it's a natural evolution of society going by their promo YouTube … [Read more...]