From the monthly archives:

January 2006

Now you can DELETE your Gmail…

January 19, 2006

Yep, if you use Gmail (as I do) you now have a Delete but­ton for unwanted email. Before it was bur­ied in the drop­down menu under More Actions… Pre­vi­ously, it was called ‘Move to Trash…’
As far as I know, Google really doesn’t want people delet­ing their email, as it gives their data min­ing algorithms much more […]

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Advertising in Video Games…

January 19, 2006

Ars tech­nica takes a look into how Sub­way ads ended up in Valve’s Coun­ter­strike game, without Valve’s permission!

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Web2.0 Online Task Manager…

January 19, 2006

Here’s another one of the onslaught of Web 2.0 apps. mak­ing an appear­ance. Task Freak is a simple, yet eleg­ant, single user task man­age­ment pro­gram.
By default, it sup­ports the Get­ting Things Done meth­od­o­logy, but is cus­tom­iz­able enough for you to use it as you wish.
This is still a work in pro­gress, but future devel­op­ment will include:

full […]

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Free Directory Sharing — From Microsoft!

January 18, 2006

The Com­pany Line:
Folder­ShareTM allows you to cre­ate a private peer-to-peer net­work that will help you to syn­chron­ize files across mul­tiple devices and access or share files with col­leagues and friends. You no longer need to send large files via email, burn them to CDs/DVDs and mail them, or upload them to a web­site. Folder­Share allows you […]

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First Impressions…

January 17, 2006

Looks like first impres­sions really do mat­ter, as far as web­site design goes. Nature is run­ning an art­icle about research done by a Cana­dian researcher; con­clu­sion is that in about 1/50th of a second, you’ve made up your mind about lik­ing the site or not.
The phe­nomenon per­vades our soci­ety; even doc­tors have been shown to follow […]

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Reality…

January 17, 2006

Scan­ning this morning’s rss feed and caught this great art­icle on ‘real­ity’ and motiv­a­tional posters. Bot­tom line, your work­ers are much smarter than you give them credit for, don’t use pithy posters to pro­mote passion.

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