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5 Web Applications You Can’t Live Without

Posted 05 June 2008 | By mitch | Categories: Geekery, Personal Productivity | 2 Comments

With ever-increasing amounts of information coming from every direction, and personal and professional lives that are busier than ever, it’s becoming more difficult to manage all the appointments, messages, notes, tasks, and details that are part of every day. If you need a little help, there are lots of well thought out web applications that provide solutions to many of life’s challenges.

Here’s five web applications you can’t live without.

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: [...]