Not long ago I posted about my plan to aggressively filter bacn — messages that aren’t quite spam, but that I don’t actually want to read — out of my Inbox. So for three or four days, I let the bacn accumulate, and then I created a couple choice filters from that collection of mail. [...]
I’ve recently realized that probably about two-thirds of my email is stuff I just don’t care about or want to read. But it’s not exactly spam, either, as it comes from trusted sources that, if only peripherally, I know or who know me from somewhere. Turns out there’s a name for this type of email: [...]
Two and a half years ago I switched from Web Hosting Buzz to MediaTemple for the web hosting of this site. When I made that switch I made it clear that I would be monitoring the situation, and that if MediaTemple’s hosting service ever became problematic, I would move on to yet another provider. Today [...]
UPDATE 5/1/11: If you’ve been having trouble syncing multiple calendars to your iPhone, it’s because Google has added an extra step to the process. I’ve added a bit about Google’s new required iPhone sync utility to the Set Up Your iPhone section for folks with multiple calendars. As always, happy syncing! I keep getting comments [...]
Two small but exciting improvements revealed today. 1. Google has at last made some design improvements to their search results (via Daring Fireball). I wrote about my frustration with Google’s lack of design vision some time ago. It’s great to finally see them trying to improve their usability and their aesthetic at the same time. [...]
When I first saw the title of this article over at Ars I rolled my eyes: Cloud Computing: a short introduction Then I read it. It turns out to be an incredibly thorough, yet brief, technical description of the term Cloud Computing. The article does a great job of defining Grid Computing and then uses [...]
I was recently reading an article on the Tao of Mac that said, among other things: “I’ve long preferred to use iPhone Twitter and Facebook clients over desktop ones…“ It’s true, there are a handful of iPhone applications that are actually better than the original apps they replace — Facebook, for sure, and my recent [...]
Well, as promised, I performed my little experiment and have come to the conclusion that, for this site at least, Google’s AdSense is an abysmal failure. Here’s how it all went down. Getting an AdSense account was pretty easy — just sign up and wait for approval. And approval was quick as I’d submitted my site [...]
Pingbacks are those little snippets of text that get inserted into your comments section whenever someone links to your blog from another site. You can turn them on or off and, I believe, they need to be enabled on the originating site as well. For some folks they can be really useful as a way [...]
You have to hand it to Google. They really seem to be thinking about what their users want. Even if users want out. I think it’s very impressive that the search giant has started a branch of the company dedicated to helping users join, but also leave, Google if they want to. It not only [...]