Tag Archives: gmail

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 [...]

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: [...]