Lo and behold when I opened my Gmail account, they’ve got a new feature:
Get mail from other accounts
Now Gmail can check for the mail you receive at your other email accounts. You can retrieve your mail (new and old) from up to five other email accounts and have them all in Gmail. Then you [...]

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If you’ve watched the Bruce Willis movie, Armageddon, then you probably know the dilemma that I’m pointing out - the end of the world by some idiot space rock who wants to do a fender-bender with earth.
The latest known rock is the asteroid Apophis, named after an Egyptian god of chaos, has, by space [...]

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And here they are: Applications that have earned the “Certified for Windows Vista” logo or the “Works with Windows Vista” logo.

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Microsoft tries to encourage more users to switch to Vista by handing out aids to help out in the transition.
For those concerned with backward compatibility, they launched Virtual PC 2007. This would allow Vista to run alongside other OSes. Find out more about Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 here.
And to aid business deployment, Bill’s guys [...]

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Here are two other video embeds featuring another shirt folding technique. This way doesn’t need those devices and takes a bit more practice to get hang of. The first is a 22 second video from Japan. The other’s an English version with commentary.
You can see that the Japanese seem have this technique down to [...]

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People from the military are often the most fit people we have around. And it’s mostly because of the conditioning they get from training. Here are excerpts on what exercises you can do to reach military-type fitness.

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Yahoo! introduced Pipes more than a week ago which is an RSS mashup application that can aggregate your favorite RSS feeds for better functionality. Much like your own custom web news service. I wanted to try it out since the launch but after massive Digging and resulting traffic , it crashed before I got [...]

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Last time, I’ve featured a SysSense - a freeware utility that keeps track of your Google AdSense account without having to open a browser window.
But if you’re the type of person that always keeps a browser open, you can also do the same within Firefox with an extension - AdSense Notifier. This helps [...]

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Wireless connectivity is really becoming the staple for the future. And Apple, again, leads the packs with its use of 802.11n for it’s router, AirPort Extreme.
And as Apple’s explanation for 802.11 says:
Among its key innovations, 802.11n adds technology called multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), a signal processing and smart antenna technique for transmitting multiple data streams [...]

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For Mac users, I know you’ll all be wishing this rumor will be true!
As you can see the screenshot (here), there’s an answering tab! So we could just all wish that this screenshot is a sign of this to come. Apple has already released a preview from way back which you can see here.
Apple [...]

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No wonder they’re down by that much. I remember when folks had to upgrade from Windows 98SE (or if they’re unfortunate ME), they didn’t need to buy a new PC. But Vista took that route and we see that they’re paying for it.
Who has that much money to shell out for a high-end (that’s [...]

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Last time, I buzzed an alert to everyone who uses Firefox to download their favorite add-ons ASAP since Mozilla was supposed to trim down the list.
But as I monitored the Mozilla site, there were still no updates made on the site. The reason behind, apparently, is that, they delayed the site update for tonight [...]

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Yesterday, Microsoft released a list of 12 updates that’s supposed to patch 20 vulnerabilities.
Now check bulletin MS0-010 which is supposed to patch Windows OneCare, Windows Defender and the Forefront Security and Antigen products.
Here’s a quip from Microsoft (from the Computerworld article):

“The underlying component [of Windows Defender] does ship with Vista,” acknowledged Mark Griesi, security [...]

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And yet another complaint against. It’s funny. I remember back in the great transition from Windows 98 to XP, there weren’t too many problems in backward compatibility. But Vista isn’t making loving it an easy thing to do.
First it was the specs. Then it was the cost. I was expecting businesses and other developers [...]

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No quick tip for today, read that: emergency! Why? Mozilla Firefox will be relaunching its add-on site by Feb. 12 and part of the launch will be the removal of thousands of add-ons from its list.
Mozilla is apparently doing this to streamline the list for new users. Let’s face it, add-ons have been the [...]

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