Another eye catching headline there! We have a couple of clients who use Sonicwall SRA appliances for remote access to internal resources. The bookmarks that were setup to gain access to file shares stopped working. On some PCs we were seeing a blank page. On others it was pretty clear where the problem lay. The
Category: Google
Bye Bye Google Reader
I woke up to the news this morning that Google Reader will close down on July 1st. My twitter feed was full this morning people who use it on daily basis now having to consider alternatives. It’s part of a broader “spring clean” Google have been on for some time but the specific reasoning was
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Protecting Your Gmail Account with Two Factor Authentication.
It’s not always obvious but your email account is one of the most important things you have on the Internet. (Jeff Attwood wrote a really good post about this back in 2008!) Your email account is like the keys to the city because when you sign up for just about any service on the Internet
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I’m officially a two browser person
Since Google Chrome is actually out of Beta I’ve installed it on my PC at home and my laptop (and i plan to install it at the office too). I have mentioned before about why i thought i might run two browsers, compatibility with some Microsoft products, Application shortcuts and the speed increases are just
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Unreasonable?
Isn’t amazing how demanding some people can be, even when they are getting something for nothing Google have introduced a channel system for releases of Chrome You can subscribe to one of our update channels: Stable channel. Everyone is on the Stable channel when they first install Google Chrome. The Stable channel is updated
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Google Chrome – First Usage Thoughts
Yes I know it’s been out a while but yesterday was the first time I’d gotten around to installing Google Chrome. Mainly because I didn’t want to install it on a production machine (being a beta and all) so with after getting back yesterday afternoon it was the first time in ages I actually had
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Google Chrome – One interesting bit, ok two, maybe three
When the Internet is in full blown hype mode I usually don’t even bother to blog about it. But this I thought I’d make an exception on this one However, I haven’t even downloaded Chrome yet! (I have seen it in action though – some people can’t wait!) However, a few things caught my eye
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Could i ask for a feature please Google?
Dear Google Reader Team, Could you do one of two things for me please? Either put an undo button somewhere or move the refresh button away from the mark all as read button….. Why? Last night i was doing some bits and pieces, it was late and i accidently clicked the mark all as read
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So this google reader..
After an endorsment by Vlad i figured it would rude not to check out google reader! So far i’m pretty impressed. I like the speed of it. One thing about a lot of web services is clicking then waiting which you obviously don’t get with a desktop reader. The shortcuts are a god send! I
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Bye Bye Outlook RSS
I’ve never found an RSS reader i’ve been 100% happy with I started with NewsGator (online version) and tried various desktop offerings such as RSS Bandit but thought Outlook 2007 would be the answer to my prayers. I know that it doesn’t have the features that other readers have but it does mean i keep