When I got a Gmail invite in June 2004 (I did beg for it), I thought yaay 1GB worth of email that’s more than I could ever need.  Today after emptying my trash, deleting spam and any other useless emails I realized I had filled 21% of my quota.  I still have lots to go [...]

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I had been looking for a smart calendar for my desktop, something small, compact, good looking, easy to use and easy on the memory.  I forget how I cam across Rainlender, but I am sure it was totally by chance because I was quite surprised to find it.  It looks cool, you can skin it [...]

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Smashing Magazine published their November desktop wallpaper set a couple of days ago.
They are all awesome!
My only tiff is that they don’t have a wide screen version.
You can download the right resolution for your screen, with or without the calendar.

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I like being an early adopter, well I try, so as of two minutes ago I just adopted Google’s Chrome browser.  The interface is quite new with the tabs being above the buttons.  After years of using Mozilla’s Firefox Chrome is different, I miss the status bar at the bottom of the screen, the ability [...]

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Eeeek! Who still uses dial-up internet? I have no idea.  I’ve been on DSL for so long that the sound of the modem connecting was so nostalgic, and that was where the nostalgia ended.  My DSL connection needs to be renewed and because we pay by year we messed up the date thinking we still [...]

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When I was young we visited the Guiness World Book of Records museum in London and ever since then I have always had a fascination with world records.  So when I stumbled upon Firefox’s attempt to break the world record in the number of downloads in a 24 hour period for Firefox 3’s release I [...]

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After my last post on free software, Tarek commented that ClamWin did not provide real time virus scanning and recommended WinPooch, so I uninstalled ClamWin and installed WinPooch to give it a try.  The interface wasn’t any better than ClamWin and had two very annoying issues.  The first was that the tray icon was a [...]

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A few years back I made a pact with myself not to use any pirated software, mainly because I am a software developer and we all enjoy getting paid.  My laptop came with Norton Protection Center pre-installed and recently it started warning me to update my subscription.  So I decided to take the plunge and [...]

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I have a thing for laptop bags, I hate the boring black kind that seems to be regular issue with most laptops, I already had a cool Timberland one but was not satisfied with it for 2 reasons. One it no longer was big enough for my new wide screen laptop the second [...]

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