Of all the email services I have tried over the years I must admit my favourite is Google’s Gmail. Microsoft’s new Windows Live Mail is a big improvement over Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail is looking good these days but I love Gmail. The only complaint I have with the service is the appearance of the [...]

As the final release of WordPress 2.5 fast approaches, I’ve been having a lot of fun playing around with 2.4-bleeding which has since become WP 2.5 Beta. Since the changes have been coming fast and furious these last few weeks I’m sure glad I use a Subversion client to connect to the WordPress Subversion Repository [...]

Early reports show that the new Windows XP Service Pack 3 is more than just a patch release and that it may actually boost the overall performance of your system.
Using the OfficeBench benchmarking tool the Devil Mountain Software group showed a 10% increase in performance over Service Pack 2 and more than twice as fast [...]

I read an interesting post today in Alexa’s official blog called Alexa Data vs. Your Raw Logs in which they describe how Alexa traffic is calculated and what constitutes a visit. In pointing out how your very own server logs may not be giving you an accurate picture, Geoffrey Mack, Alexa product manager states,
Few individuals [...]

In an unusual move Dell is bringing back Windows XP.
Amid significant customer demand, the computer maker said on Thursday that it has returned to offering the older Windows version as an option on some of its consumer PCs.
What does this say about Vista?

Google’s recent $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick makes me wonder how many people at this very moment are feverishly working on new apps hoping to be bought out by the monolith?

I’ve been observing a strange behaviour over the course of the last month or so with respect to pinging but never bothered to investigate the problem. Now I see that Blogging Tories member Jesse Gritter Online is reporting the same problem.
The only time I ever ping is when I post a new item. But for [...]

Well I finally did it. I finally kicked Technorati off of my blog. It was a long time in coming. I don’t know about you but I grew tired of waiting for what seemed like an eternity for their search results page to load, if it loaded at all. On top of that I was [...]

In my other blog, Reverberations, I mentioned an anti-spam effort being mounted by an Israeli company called Blue Security. I thought I would cross-post it here as it may interest you.
An update to my previous post Spamming spammers. I checked out the link in the article and promptly signed up. The name of the anti-spam [...]

According to a new report, Firefox is closing in on the 10% mark with respect to market share. In addition, Dan Shapero of NetApplications claims that Microsoft is losing between 0.5 to 1.0 of market share each month.
“With its continued momentum, combined with significant media attention, Firefox has steadily increased its user-base each and every [...]