Tag Archives: email

Tip of the Day: Secure Your Gmail

Posted 21 March 2007 | By mitch | Categories: Geekery, JavaScript | No Comments

From the “Why Didn’t I Think of That” department: GMailSecure has got to be one of the most elegantly simple, yet useful Greasemonkey scripts ever.

When I say simple, I mean one line of code:

location.href = location.href.replace(/^http:/, ‘https:’);

This script ensures your Gmail session using Firefox takes place over a secure HTTP connection providing a reasonable amount [...]

Have We Lost The Spam War?

Posted 06 March 2007 | By mitch | Categories: Geekery, Talk | 4 Comments

This post on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog got me thinking about spam. I feel Jeremy’s pain, the problem he describes is troublesome,

It used to be a rare occurrence that a message I sent didn’t make it to the intended recipient’s inbox because of some overly aggressive filtering. No more. It seems to be happening on a [...]

Gmail Service Outage?

Posted 04 May 2006 | By mitch | Categories: Geekery | 2 Comments

Anyone else seeing this? I’ve been getting either 404 Not Found or 503 Service Unavailable errors when trying to access my Gmail account. I first noticed this about 1:50pm PDT (GMT -8), but suspect it’s been going on a bit longer. What’s up?

Funny, I was just thinking I need to switch to Gmail exclusively. Hmmm.

UPDATE: [...]