I was poking through my blog posts from 5 years ago and found one referring to GMail invitations. I had forgotten that GMail was by invitation only for the first few months of its existence. Those were the days!
I was poking through my blog posts from 5 years ago and found one referring to GMail invitations. I had forgotten that GMail was by invitation only for the first few months of its existence. Those were the days!
Over the years, Experts Exchange has become quite the repository of tech advice, where people go to ask questions, then the experts compete to give the best answer and win the asker’s vote. It’s a pretty slick system, I suppose, if you are an ‘expert’, and your goal in life…
YouTube has implemented a three-phased attack to thoroughly rid me of any reason to ever talk nice about it again. They have succeeded. Phase I – Google Search Drops My Site It started in late December. I run a site called TheBestOfYouTube.com which is just a blog I use to…
Google says the recent GMail account breeches were due to typical phishing scams, not a vulnerability in GMail itself. With help from affected users, we determined that the cause was a phishing scheme, a common method used by malicious actors to trick people into sharing their sensitive information. Attackers sent…
I’ve been following the story about the domain name hijacking of MakeUseOf.com the last few weeks with interest. All signs are pointing to the domain thief having cracked the MakeUseOf.com Gmail account in order to retrieve their GoDaddy.com password and transfer the owenership of the domain. This is not good…
Chrome just came out, and I downloaded it and have it installed. Expect a review here once I have time to kick the tires a little bit. One thing that made me chuckle during the installation was a dialog box that popped up when I told Chrome to import my…