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Outlook 2003-style Blog
Got FoO - Office 2K3 Style: This guy duplicated the upcoming Outlook 2003 layout in HTML for his blog. Nicely done.
Published: July 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Pirillo on Outlook 2003 - Revisited
Screw You, Outlook 2003: Nothing has changed. Chris Pirillo still hates Outlook 2003. I can't stand it anymore; it's time to roll back to Outlook 2000 and pray to GOD IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE that someone keeps future versions of the PIM from going straight into the crapper for anybody ...
Published: November 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 995
Outlook and Office Spy
OutlookSpy - the Ultimate Outlook Developer Tool: A phenomenal tool if you ever do Outlook / Exchange / CDO programming. This guy also built OfficeSpy if you do Microsoft Office VBA programming. My days of hardcore Exchange programming are behind me, but I so wish they had this tool back ...
Published: July 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 982
AIM-Outlook Integration
AOL instant-message service to expand: This article paints this as a shot across the Outlook bow, but I just don't see it. Email is one thing, chat is quite another. Starting Monday (at www.aimatwork.com), AIM customers can download a free plug-in that will let users of Microsoft Outlook see which ...
Published: February 28, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 980
Outlook for Subscription Services
MS launches Outlook email subscriptions: It's essentially a Webmail account with a client thrown in. (Or a nice way to open a huge security hole in an otherwise secure Webmail account, depending on how you look at it...) Microsoft has launched a subscription version of Outlook that will connect to ...
Published: January 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 976
Thoughts on Outlook 2003
Outlook 2003 Sucks Ass. Bigtime: Gee, Chris, don't pull any punches. "I've had it running for about a week now, and find it very difficult to give it anything beyond a 'D+' as a grade. It's noticably slower than Outlook 2000, and (beyond the high-color icons) brings with it ghastly ...
Published: October 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 961
Switching to Outlook Web Access
I'm a nomad these days -- I split my time between two offices, one with a Windows domain, and one without. Because of this, I've decided to remove my computer from the domain to which it was attached. I still have my domain user account to access resources, but my ...
Published: January 6, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 948
No More Outlook Express
Microsoft kills off Outlook Express: This was probably inevitable, but it makes you wonder what Microsoft's entry-level, bundled email program is going to be. Are they going to push MSN as the email program for new machines? "'[Outlook Express] just sits where it is,' said Dan Leach, lead product manager ...
Published: August 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 943
MSN 9.0 / Outlook Sync
MSN 9.0 to Include Built-In Outlook Synchronization: Premium subscribers to the next version of MSN will be able to sync their Web mail, contacts, and calendar with their client version of Outlook. "The Connector will allow for 'rich integration scenarios,' Pai said, such as the ability to drag contacts from ...
Published: July 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 938
Outlook Web Access Privacy Hole
Here's something a little scary for anyone who uses Outlook Web Access. Watch out for the links you click in emails, because your browser may send a whole lot of information about you in the HTTP Referer header. Browsing through my log files the other day, I found this as ...
Published: December 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 905
PHP and COM: Quite Awesome These Days
I do some hairy Outlook and Exchange programming. Not by choice, but by force -- I have users that won't give up Outlook for any reason, and they want it to interoperate with our PHP-based database. I usually do my Outlook scripting in VBScript, since Outlook has a snazzy COM ...
Published: September 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 904
Bayesian Spam Filter for Outlook
SpamBayes Outlook Addin: Here's a spam filter for Outlook that runs on Bayesian theory. You give it a folder of good emails (your inbox) and a folder of spam that you've collected, then let it analyze both. From then on, it will use this information to assign a score to ...
Published: June 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 902
NewsGator: Beyond the Aggregator
Why Did We Invest in NewsGator?: Here's a post from a venture capitalist about why he invested in NewsGator. The misperception is that NewsGator is only an Outlook plug-in. While the most popular product from NewsGator is currently their Outlook-based aggregator, what really turned us on when we dug into ...
Published: July 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 880
NewsGator Handiness
Chris threw down the gauntlet the other night by shilling for Awasu and claiming: "The only thing I can see that NewsGator has on Awasu is the ability to see a consolidated view of all subscriptions, so I can can sort all new items by date regardless of where they ...
Published: June 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 860
Plaxo
Plaxo Contact Networks: Web sync for your Outlook and Outlook Express contact information. Getting raves from some, jeers from others. It's like PayPal it works best when everyone on Earth joins.
Published: November 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 853
Exchange Competitor
Stalker aims to creep up on Exchange | CNET News.com: So, if you're still using Outlook, then it stands to reason that this software would have to support all the functions that Outlook exposes client-side: Contacts, Tasks, Calendar, etc. "Stalker Software plans to unveil messaging and collaboration software next week ...
Published: June 20, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 852
Independent Objects from RSS
I was playing around with NewsMonster today, and in doing this, I stumbled upon an obvious difference between NewsGator and other aggregators. NewsGator creates an independent object in Outlook for each entry it gets off an RSS feed. The object (an Outlook post object) is no longer tied to the ...
Published: August 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 845
Lightning: Mozilla Strikes Again
Given the growing success of Firefox, a new Mozilla-based project code-named 'Lightning' may be worth keeping an eye on. Lightning is the working project name for an extension to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird. [...] Q. Is Lightning meant as a competitor to Outlook? A. With ...
Published: December 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 842
NewsGator
NewsGator - the RSS news aggregator for Outlook: Do you find yourself checking the same sites many times a day for updates? Ever wish the operators could be so nice as to email you when they add something? Well, now they can...sorta. NewsGator is an add-in for Outlook that checks ...
Published: May 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 841
Newsgator 1.3
NewsGator - Downloads: NewsGator 1.3 is out with severaldozen changes, including NNTP support. This means you don't have to use Outlook Express as a newsreader anymore since this builds it into Outlook and it inherits all the snazzy NewsGator functionality.
Published: August 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 835
Chandler 0.1
Open Source Applications Foundation - Our Product "Chandler" - Description: Chandler is the Big Thing that Mitch Kapor (the guy who brought us Lotus 1-2-3) has been working on for a year now. Version 0.1 is out. Here's his vision: "Recent open-source groupware products and projects (Evolution, Kroupware) use Outlook ...
Published: June 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 811
Email Sound FX
Email Sound FX - Outlook add-in for email sound notification: This is a pretty good idea. I get email all day, and it would be nice to know who it was from without having to look and without having to visual process the email itself. By using this Outlook add-in ...
Published: February 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 801
Mozilla Calendar
Calendar - Standards Based Calendar Client Project: Want to switch to Mozilla but can't leave behind Outlook's calendar and task list? Follow this link, and you have one less excuse. I spent five minutes with it, and I think this is another nail in Outlook's coffin. A bonus is that ...
Published: July 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 796
Thunderbird Adoption Lagging
Thunderbird Finds It Hard To Mimic Firefox's Rapid Rise, Says Report: A report has been released which indicates that Thunderbird is not flourishing the way Firefox is. Thunderbird's major shortcoming is the absence of an integrated calendar, the report says. A future release is expected to fill that void. Once ...
Published: April 8, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 787
Registering URL Protocols
Registering an Application to a URL Protocol: Here's a handy note on how to register a new URL protocol to an application in Windows. Adam did it with Zempt a URL starting with "zempt://" will start that app and pass it a bunch of information. I always wondered how ...
Published: January 5, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 785
Sobig
We're just getting hammered by Sobig this morning. It got into a mailing list used by one of the organizations we belong to and we're getting them at the rate of one every five seconds or so. My Bayesian Outlook Filter is dumping most of them, but one guy here ...
Published: August 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 783
Open-Sourced Groupware: Contenders for the Throne
If you've read this blog, you may have picked up on the fact that I'm a bit of an open-source advocate. I far prefer to use open-source solutions wherever possible. By and large, open-source doesn't get enough credit. I've run Linux and KDE as my primary work environment on my ...
Published: February 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 778
Blogs in the Enterprise
NewsGator Case Study: Triple Point Technology: This is a great case study by the guys over at NewsGator about integrating blogs and RSS into the enterprise. "Internal weblogs were created using Six Apart's Movable Type. Internal authors are accustomed to sending email, but now post certain information to their new ...
Published: July 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 776
Handling Arbitrary RSS Data with NewsGator
RSS extensions: The inventor of NewsGator shows us some of the really cool things you can do with it. ...you can define whatever extension you like, and NewsGator will be able to use it in one way of another. Let's explore how this works, and what you can do...you can ...
Published: January 24, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 766
New Virus Erases Hard Drive
From the 'It Was Bound To Happen' department: Symantec reports that a new virus is making the rounds that deletes all files on the infected PC: The malware targets Windows computers, and arrives in an email bearing the subject "Re" and an attachment that will have an .asp, .hta, .htm, ...
Published: June 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 766
SNARF
Social Network and Relationship Finder, or SNARF, was released by Microsoft Research at the end of November. SNARF is designed to assign priorities to email in your Outlook inbox according to established relationships you have with the senders of that mail. As one MS Research guru puts it... We often ...
Published: December 11, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 759
Do Computers Enable Blissful Ignorance?
I'm reading David Allen's book "Getting Things Done." I'm not a total convert yet, but I am planning to read it a second time. It's got a lot of good information. One of the things the book has forced me to realize is how stuff has a tendency to "collect" ...
Published: May 29, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 746
HTTP Referer Security Considerations
HTTP/1.1: Security Considerations: Regarding my earlier post about the Outlook Web Access privacy issue, here's what I found about HTTP Referer headers in the HTTP 1.1 spec (RFC 2616): Because the source of a link might be private information or might reveal an otherwise private information source, it is strongly ...
Published: December 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 744
Future-Proofing Contact Information
How do you future-proof contact information? It strikes me that, through the years, I migrate from one messaging platform to another, but I'm generally contacting the same people. My Mom is going to be my Mom no matter what email client I'm using. Probably true for my wife, too. So, ...
Published: January 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 736
SpamNet
Spam was killing me, but I've been having great luck with SpamNet from CloudMark. It's a free add-in to Outlook that uses a remote list to identify spam. What it does is compare each email to a list of known spam. That's nothing new. However, if a spam does get ...
Published: April 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 734
Varying Degrees of Microsoft Separation
Given that Microsoft products appear to be full of security holes, more and more thought is being given to migrating to other platforms. However, this has problems of its own. Macs are expensive, and Linux isn't quite ready as a desktop platform. This leaves a lot of people in limbo ...
Published: October 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 710
RSS as NNTP
Genecast: A very smooth idea. Convert RSS feeds into Usenet-compatible newsgroups so people with NNTP readers (like Outlook Express) can view them by monitoring the "newsgroup." I'm beginning to think RSS is simply private Usenet anyway. (I do, however, have to question the intelligence of using a sperm as your ...
Published: August 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 708
Thunderbird Spellchecking
Mozilla Thunderbird Inline Spell Checking Test Build: Good stuff coming to Thunderbird. [...] the feature highlights potentially misspelled words with a red dotted underline (much like applications such as Microsoft Word). Users can easily pick from the top seven spelling suggestions using the context menu. This would actually be a ...
Published: January 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 704
Exchange 2000 as a Corporate Blogging Platform
So you want to give blogging a go at your company, but you dread the thought of getting sign off on new software, setting everything up, handling permissions issues, etc. What a huge pain, especially when you have no idea if anyone is going to even like the concept. Never ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 702
Hotmail Finally Gets Updated
Microsoft s new Hotmail goes live: I tried it. Ehhh. Nothing to write home about. Windows Live Hotmail, which officially became available Monday, sports a new look and features similar to Microsoft s desktop-based Outlook e-mail program, including the ability to drag and drop messages into folders. Microsoft also said it improved ...
Published: May 8, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 698
PC World's Best of 2004
PCWorld.com - Best of 2004: Some eye-openers here: Opera as Best Browser? Outlook as Best Email Client? Groove as Best Collaboration Tool? Panther as Best OS seems legit. I like the Dell Dimension 4600 as Best General Purpose PC because I just bought one. Microsoft Money unseating Quicken as Best ...
Published: December 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 698
Zawodny on New Yahoo! Mail
About the new Yahoo! Mail: Jeremy writes about the new Yahoo! Mail interface and has a great screenshot. Oh, and if you look at that screenshot, you'll see that there are over 42,000 messages in my inbox. The product still works well with a big volume of mail. He includes ...
Published: September 22, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 695
RSS Aggregator Review
RSS News Readers Browse for You: PC Mag reviewed aggregators. FeedDemon and NewsGator came out on top. Regarding NewsGator: "Don't underestimate the convenience factor here. With the other news readers, you have to open a separate application. Most business users will agree that having the news feeds directly in Outlook ...
Published: September 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 685
Convea
Convea - Open Source Business Application Platform: This is a pretty stunning piece of work. It's super-Outlook in a browser. IE 5.5+ only. Try the demo. If you're ever used Oddpost, you'll be just as impressed with Convea. Using astounding client-side programming, they have utterly and completely replictaed a client-side ...
Published: July 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 684
New Spam Filter for Movable Type
Bayesian filter for MT: This looks promising. Hope it works as good as Bayesian spam filter for Outlook. "...I spent the last 2 days working on a bayesian plugin. To cut the story short, the plugin will allow you to train your movabletype blog to automatically identify spam comments and ...
Published: November 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 683
Chandler Brings in Big Bucks
OSAF receives grant from Mellon Foundation: We've talked about Cnandler before it's an attempt to put Exchange out of business with a peer-to-peer Outlook-type client. With this kind of money, they're well on their way. "We are very pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the ...
Published: October 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 680
Microsoft Trying to Purge Java
Announcement: Upcoming Content Revision to MSDN Subscriber Downloads: Microsoft is going to stop distributing a whole slew of programs in the wake of the Java settlement. It's trying to purge itself of anything that uses the current JVM. Due to a settlement agreement reached in January 2001, the following products ...
Published: December 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
NewsGator Acquires Nick Bradbury
NewsGator buys syndication rival: Huh. Newsgator bought FeedDemon. I think these two are the best client-side (as opposed to Web-based) aggregators on the market right now NewsGator is near-perfect integration into Outlook, and FeedDemon is IMHO the best standalone RSS client. NewsGator plans to distribute Bradbury's products, including FeedDemon ...
Published: May 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
Hallmark and URL Length
My wife sent a Hallmark eCard to someone today. She picked a format then typed a paragraph or so of text. The length of her prose was nothing out of the ordinary. Hallmark then generated an email to the recipient and CC'd my wife. In this email was a link ...
Published: March 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 677
Smart Screen
Gates gets serious about spam, security: This is new. Sounds Bayesian. Google News had no mention of it prior to seven hours ago. Gates also said both technology and legal efforts may help curb spam, the unsolicited e-mails that clog inboxes and create headaches for Information Technology departments. He said ...
Published: November 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 676
Contact Managers - Evil or Good?
A friend called me this morning saying that he got an e-mail message from someone he knew, but that message was apparently sent on his behalf by Plaxo. This friend was wondering what I knew about Plaxo, and whether he should respond to the message, which was asking him for ...
Published: July 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 674
Even the Viruses are Open Source Now
ZDNet states that the latest variants of the Bagle worm include the original assembler source code of the virus as an attachment to the emails it sends. Security experts worry that this will produce a lot more variants, and make it harder to prosecute the author. "On Friday, the perfect ...
Published: July 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 669
New Thunderbird Release
Mozilla Thunderbird: Thunderbird 0.4 is out. The attachment icon (the paper clip) has been broken out to its own column (instead of being overlad on the envelope you could never see it) so you can sort on it now, and the envelope now includes "forwarded" and "replied" arrows like ...
Published: December 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 669
PageTrack
PageTrack - An easy alternative to RSS?: Interesting concept. PageTrack is an easy way to keep track of web pages at home and at work. Unlike an RSS reader, PageTrack monitors whole web pages. By opening the pages in the user's default browser, PageTrack allows the user to take maximum ...
Published: December 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 668
Styling RSS Feeds
I've subscribed to a new RSS feed that's injecting styles into posts each post is surrounded by a FONT tag that makes the text Arial, instead of the default Times New Roman that Outlook (I use NewsGator) would render in if not for the tag. I always felt that ...
Published: July 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 668
Spam Filtering in Mozilla
I've begun using Mozilla Mail for personal email, and I've been quite impressed with its "junk mail filters." It appears to be a rule-based filtering system which seems awfully accurate at flagging messages as spam. Over the weekend, I got 182 emails, and Mozilla slashed this total to five by ...
Published: August 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 668
How to Speed RSS Adoption
One Way to Take Aggregators Mainstream: Some great thoughts about RSS aggregator adoption. "I think some of this can come from libraries, much the way we teach internet classes now. I mean, seriously - who exactly do you think is going to introduce aggregators to the public at large? If ...
Published: October 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Half-Life 2 is in the Wild
Thieves steal playable version of Half-Life 2: Valve's nightmare gets worse enough code was stolen to compile the game and run it. "When hackers broke into the computing system of Valve Software, they stole more than just the source code to Half-Life 2. They also stole enough game maps ...
Published: October 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Newsgator 2.0
Press Release - NewsGator Online Services...: I was one of the beta testers for Newsgator 2.0. I can finally vouch that it's a stunning piece of work, since I've been under an NDA for the last two months. In addition to launching NewsGator 2.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ...
Published: January 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Headaches
Companies brace for Microsoft security update: An interesting look at the apparently huge Windows XP Service Pack 2 due next month and what it means for software companies. The changes will affect thousands of programs that have depended on how Windows handles certain things. The new system bolsters security on ...
Published: July 19, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
Firebird Rises Again
The Mozilla Foundation has cranked out new versions of three major apps today. The Mozilla Suite goes to 1.5, with enhancements to Composer, a new spellchecker, and stability enhancements. The world's greatest browser (if you ask me), FireBird, goes to version 0.7 and gets enhanced preferences, alternate stylesheets features, and ...
Published: October 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 663
No Email Policy
British boss bans e-mail: This is a very interesting thought. "John Caudwell, CEO of High Street mobile retailer Phones 4U, announced Thursday that he'll ban all employees from using e-mail across the business. The reasoning behind the total ban is apparently to improve productivity by reducing the time Phones 4U ...
Published: September 19, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 663
The Death of the Web Site?
From the "Let's Jump To Conclusions" Department with my acquisition of Zempt, and my continued use of NewsGator, I can produce and consume content without ever using a browser. I get information in Outlook via NewsGator, and I can turn it around (or create it from scratch) in Zempt. ...
Published: July 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Interesting SharpReader Feature
I tried out this SharpReader, and found it to quite competent it's a free, Windows newsreader. It seems to do all the right things. It's very Outlook-ish: three panes, unread items bolded, etc. It lets you filter and sort and such. But here's the thing. Look at this screencap: ...
Published: August 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
TaskArrange
Elias Fotinis TaskArrange :: Arrange the Windows taskbar buttons: Okay, this sounds stupid, but I'm wicked guilty of it. From left to right, it has to be Outlook, Thunderbird, Firefox. If it's not, I get a little...anxious. Sometimes we open our programs in a specific sequence, to keep their taskbar ...
Published: May 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 653
New Email Virus
Wells Fargo Warns Of Email Hoax: I got this yesterday, but Outlook blocked the attachment. "The email, which is titled 'Wells Fargo New Business Account Application' states that the user's 'application' has been rejected. If a user opens the attachment, however, a Trojan is placed onto the user's system that ...
Published: July 22, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
Programming with Firefox
Microsoft's Worst Nightmare: Business 2.0 has a good article on the new front in the browser wars: rich client apps. Firefox has XUL, which is a language to create applications within the Firefox browser. This article explains why Microsoft should be worried about it. [...] Firefox's open platform gives it ...
Published: October 25, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
Cool Power Toys
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP: I know that Power Toys are old hat, but there are some real winners on this page. Clear Type Tuner: This PowerToy lets you use ClearType technology to make it easier to read text on your screen, and installs in the Control Panel for easy ...
Published: March 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
Microsoft Six Sigma "Accelerator"
Q&A: Microsoft Accelerator Boosts Six Sigma Practices: Microsoft is pushing a set of add-ons for Office and Project that make the software play nice within a Six Sigma methodology framework. For instance: A lot of Six Sigma teams spend an inordinate amount of time creating Microsoft PowerPoint reports, such as ...
Published: June 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
One Less Reason Not To Switch
Novell has announced in a press release that they will release the Exchange Connector for Ximian Evolution, previously a $75/seat plugin, as open source. Novell today announced its Connector for Microsoft* Exchange Server will be integrated into EvolutionTM 2.0 and made available as open source, beginning today with the current ...
Published: May 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 635
Freebie Friday
It's raining free apps! Picasa is a pretty terrific photo management software. Google just bought the company, and they're giving Picasa away for free. My father-in-law just got a digital camera for his birthday, so I set him up with Picasa. Now he just plugs in the camera, and up ...
Published: July 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 633
Office 12 For Mac
Sounds like the long expected release of Office 12 for the Mac is well on it's way through the halls of Redmond's Mac Business Unit. The thing most potential customers are looking forward to is a version that will run natively on Intel Macs, but it will also have many ...
Published: September 18, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 630
Email Conversations as Discussion Threads
Shadows of future versions of Outlook?: Here's a look at an internal company memo about how to organize email messages. Essentially, you treat email conversations as threads of a discussion forum conversation. ...about half the time you use e-mail, it's a no-brainer. Someone sends you a message, you reply, they ...
Published: December 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 628
Diluted Spam Messages
Looks like spammers are trying to fool Bayesian filters by diluting their text. I got a spam today with two lines at the top advertising "cash freedom" or something, and I noticed that the message scrolled quite a bit. After about a hundred line breaks, I found this: I can ...
Published: November 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 616
What Links Here
We're trying something new around here. Since we have so many posts, there's a lot of internal linking between posts. This linking has value because it can point you to other things you may be interested in. You see, you can only link to something in the past -- it ...
Published: December 29, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 612
Stupid Cell Phone Tricks
The last cell phone that I owned and carried around with me was a 1997 analog number that I thought was tiny because it fit in a coat pocket or the cup holder of my car. So when I went to pick up a new phone, I was suprised to ...
Published: January 25, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 593
Why Email is Better Than the Telephone
I hate it when people call me on the phone. I d much rather they use email. I got to wondering why this was so the other day, and here goes: Email is quicker. I m at my computer anyway, so I don t have to turn away and pick up the phone, ...
Published: February 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 592
The Third Era of the Web
The third era starts here: This article is a good overall introduction to where the Web is headed. It's worth reading if you think the Web is going to stay a "come-and-read-my-Web-page" affair: The programmable web is different for two main reasons. First, instead of going to look at a ...
Published: May 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 588
Why I secretly like to pay for stuff
I've recently made the switch from Microsoft Outlook to a Web mail account. I was nervous about virus propagation, and I wanted to be able to access my email anywhere, so I decided to make the leap. But which Web mail service to use? I tried several free ones (Hotmail, ...
Published: September 14, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 586
Essentials
Essentials : Mark Pilgrim has listed his "essential" software tools for doing his job. I always like to see these the absolute, "can't live without" tools of people who do the same work as me. As the risk of being self-indulgent, here's mine: Email: Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail via ...
Published: May 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 582
Life With Fedora
I've been using Fedora for a week now, and it's really enlightened me as to what apps I use and what I don't. Since I'm having to find replacements for my Windows apps, I've learned that 90% of my app usage can be condensed to (1) Web browser, (2) email ...
Published: April 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 572
Hardware is a Bad Place to Be These Days
Let me play industry analyst for a second and explain why I think computer manufacturers are in deep kimshee: Hardware has vastly out-paced software. Besides gaming, there's no compelling reason to upgrade your computer. I'm still running on a 1GHz/384MB machine I had built for me two years ago. I ...
Published: May 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 565
A Business Information Publication Standard and Google's Power to Make It Happen
It's time we extend the robots.txt concept to information about businesses. First, let's take a quick detour into robots.txt for a second In order to tell a search engine how to spider a Web site (or not), webmasters can stick a text file called "robots.txt" in their root directory ...
Published: August 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 563
Experts Exchange
How many of you use Experts Exchange (EE) for tech questions? It's like a big IT discussion board, with the important addition of a points system. When you create a free user account on EE, you get, like, 500 points. You have to "spend" these points to ask questions (they ...
Published: September 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 551
Unresolved 404 Patterns
I changed the URL scheme of this Web site over the weekend. I had been meaning to do it for a while, but some problems with Movable Type 3.2 kind of forced the issue. (I have got to stop rushing into every beta that presents itself...) To make everything backwards ...
Published: July 17, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 551
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