jeremy I’ve been quiet on Gmail because I wasn’t sure it wasn’t an April Fool’s Day prank, but it appears that it’s not. The view seems to be that it’s simple, powerful and feature-packed. What features could you put in webmail? Here are some I’ve seen referred to (see sources below): easy email threading, where connected … Read more
From Akiba comes word of a new USB hard drive that’s a good 5 cm shorter than the usual laptop hard drive in a case, the Transcend 20GB and 40GB portable USB drive. If size is important for you, it looks like a good choice. No price given.
An interesting post from the ever thoughtful Tom Coates of PlasticBag points out that the key selling point of Kinja, the new blogging aggregator I took a brief look at a few days back, may be its ability to group blogs together and then allow other people to view the results easily, in real time. … Read more
For as long as phishing is a problem, I believe banks have got to rethink their Internet strategies. In short, any email sent from a bank or other affected online institution leaves customers vulnerable. For example: Citibank, one of the worst hit banks, still send out emails to their customers. Their Internet privacy page in … Read more
I’m a recent convert to treemaps — a way of presenting information in block form, where the block denote areas of information which can then be drilled through to reach the underlying text, pictures or whatever. It’s best explained by seeing an example. Anyway, here’s a great example of a treemap, applied to news (thanks … Read more