Google currently has a deal going that offers a free Eye-Fi card when you lease 200GB of storage for them for a year. When I first saw it it seemed like a pretty good deal, and I hate to pass up a good deal. But it’s less of a deal if I don’t really need the space and won’t use the card. So that got me thinking about my options. The space is split between Gmail and Picasa. I’m not even close to my Gmail limit and I’m not currently [...] Read the rest »
AOL My eAddress Changes
I took a look at AOL’s My eAddress offering over two years ago. While I signed up for the free service I never really used it. The biggest hindrance for me was that AOL controlled the domain. So if AOL decided to discontinue the service there was no guarantee that I would keep the domain. I could be forced into changing my email addresses. While AOL isn’t discontinuing My eAddress they are restructuring it to remove that obstacle. Now they only offer a “Bring your own domain” option where you [...] Read the rest »
Google Reader to NewsGator/NetNewsWire/FeedDemon
As you may know NewsGator Technologies made their RSS readers free. While these RSS clients are desktop clients they have the ability to synch between multiple computers and there’s also a web based reader. I took the opportunity to move my feeds from Google Reader to give it a spin. Moving the feeds over via an OPML file was a cinch. In Google Reader click on Manage Subscriptions at the bottom of your subscriptions list (or click on Settings long the top). Then click Import/Export from the settings menu. You’ll [...] Read the rest »
Mint – Slightly Bitter Taste
When I first heard about Mint I wondered what website analytics software was doing getting into finance. Then I realized it was a different Mint. Then I found they already had established competition and weren’t so unique. Most info I saw about Mint came from blogs and seemed to be more of the “press release” type. Heavy on adjectives and short on details. There were exceptions. So I decided to give Mint a try. I had problems from the beginning. I was able to create an ID OK but my [...] Read the rest »
Google Apps for My Domain – Part 1
I’ve completed my move to Google Apps and now all my mail goes into my inbox there, one way or the the other. In Part 1 I’ll cover the domain setup and IMAP mail migration using the migration tool, while in part 2 I’ll cover the features that are available to all GMail users. My reasons for moving to Google Apps were: Sometimes they can be a bit creepy but I trust them as much as I trust any other ISP or mail provider. I want to provide email to [...] Read the rest »
Google Updates Docs and Spreadsheets and Toolbar
Google updated Docs and Spreadsheets today. They did away with tagging and implemented folders instead. They’ve also added new keyboard shortcuts for those of us who like those things instead of a mouse. Rounding out the latest features are right to left text support and “easier invitations”. The change was implemented without warning (at least none that I saw) which seems rather bold. While the changes are simple and easy to understand it’s a pretty significant UI change which always seems to cause problems when users encounter them without warning. [...] Read the rest »
Stikkit
I came across Stikkit (www.stikkit.com) while listening to a bunch of podcasts over the long weekend. Unfortunately I don’t remember which one. Right now it’s in public beta and is free. They also claim they will always have a free version. Stikkit is a very Web 2.0-ish website based around a concept similar to post it notes with a filing system. When a Stikkit note is posted the language in it is parsed. If it’s recognized as a meeting or a to-do it’s categorized as such and you’ll get the [...] Read the rest »
XDrive – Free Disk Space From AOL
After signing up for the AOL e-mail I was looking around the AOL website. Now that they’ve been losing customers they seem to have adopted the business model of dropping their price to free but making up for it in volume. They’ve gone Google and will try to make it up in advertising revenue. Anyway, one thing that caught my eye was their XDrive offering. It’s 5GB of disk space for free. They didn’t want any additional info beyond what they collected for the e-mail account so I signed up [...] Read the rest »
