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If I hosted my own mail server then I can see how this could work, but in my case I can't. Does anyone know how this is supposed to work in my situation? This is something that sounds like a good idea but carrying it out in the real world is going to cause headaches.
Skip at 5:22 AM
I went to Staples midnight madness sale Friday night and picked up a BENQ FP731 LCD monitor. A great buy for $399. I've set it up and so far have been very pleased with the colour and resolution. First impression is a big thumbs up! Also got a 64MB Verbatim USB drive for $9.95 I already have another brands 128MB and find it very useful. At the price Staples had I couldn't resist picking up the Verbatim as well.
Skip at 10:38 AM
I missed yesterday, where did the time go? Nothing much to say, so I was looking around here and decided to tidy up a wee tiny bit. I've dumped the "Referring Web Page" from TrueFresco.org and replaced it with NerdsOnSite's "whos online" service. I get read/visited so rarely that you will probably see you are the ONLY one. With NerdOnSite you can customize what is placed on your site so I have elected to call you a "GREAT SURFER". If you want your ego stroked visit often. Just look down the right hand side just under the CactusGuy and CactusGal logos.
The referral pages were interesting but for the most part it was Google or directly off my own main page at SChrysler.com. With NerdsOnSite you can also get a tag board, hit counter, countdown timer, and several other services. Of course the price is my favorite number, FREE.
Skip at 5:24 AM
Whois Source offers a free email protection script for anyone to use at their site. This script will produce code you can add to your web page or a PNG image you can download. This will help keep your email address a little more hidden so that spammers can't easily harvest your data. I use a javascript, on this site, to hide my address but using the PNG image is easier and probably more effective.
Skip at 5:45 AM
Chandu Thota has devoted some space for an experiment with MapPoint. I'm now on this map. If you use the pull down to select Canada, and look over in the area of Toronto you can find a link to this site! Thanks Chandu. Every star on the map will lead you to a blog site. With so many bloggers, if this news gets out Chandu will have to work hard. I think this experiment is an interesting alternative to the traditional webring.
Skip at 5:15 AM
BugMeNot is back up and there is an explanation of the outage. Now that is it back check it out!
Skip at 5:29 AM
I have a trip to the dentist today. Nothing much, but I always lose interest in doing anything, even blogging, until it is over.
I was sure that I had mentioned BugMeNot sometime ago but looking through my past posts I can't find it. I guess it was something I meant to do but when I got to the keyboard I forget why I was there. Just like going into the kitchen and wondering what it was you wanted. Guess I'm feeling old today.
Anyway I was sure that I had told everyone about BugMeNot's great service as an add in to IE that gave you an id and password for the media sites requiring subscription. I've been using it for the last 6-8 weeks and was so happy. Yesterday, I clicked on BugMeNot and got nothing! I see now from several postings in other blogs that it is dead. RIP BugmeNot. It was a great idea but I bet someone has served them with some legal thing to shut them up. It was so abrupt with no advanced notice that something drastic must have happened. So far I've only seen rumour and no real news. Guess my mental lapse about not telling you about this really didn't matter.
Skip at 7:22 AM
Looking at Bloglines today, I spotted DropCash moving up in the top mentions.
DropCash: "It's a simple way to organize a fundraiser. Are you raising money for a charity, a trip overseas, a family gift for mom, or to pay off a surprise hosting bill? DropCash lets you set up a page so everyone can follow your progress as you near your goal."
It is a great example of how to combine things into a seamless application.
TypeKey + Paypal = DropCash. Typekey users can organize fundraiser campaigns which accept PayPal payments. DropCash provides a convenient campaign url which displays a running tally and comments. Really Neat!
Skip at 5:25 AM
It has been just over a month since my ISP started to offer a SPAM Toolbox to keep SPAM out of my mailbox. It took a little while for me to figure out how to use the Whitelist effectively and set up the parameters of the tool. I do subscribe to several newsletters and services that on the surface look like SPAM but with the Whitelist I have now them arriving and SPAM cut to almost nothing. I still have my Popfile up and running but it has only had to flag four messages in the last 3 days as spam.
Popfile is great but it still requires that the SPAM be downloaded, now with this tool I don't worry about the size of SPAM and a the virus protection seems to have cut out the worst of the mess. My AVG hasn't popped up since the service started. Before it used to warn me about messages Popfile was handling at least once a day, usually more! If your ISP doesn't offer something like this, complain. You will be glad you did.
Skip at 5:59 AM
Everyone seems to be redesigning their websites. The Daily Thing is no exception and has come up with a nice looking page. While there I saw this posting about the Web Developer extension for Firefox:
Whether you're a professional web developer or just the guy living across the street making his own web page to show off his collection of vintage 80's mini crotch rockets, then you need the Web Developer tools for Firefox. Web Developer puts a plethora of information about a page within a single click of a mouse. View css, outline how the elements stackup, image widths, display the paths to links, paths to images, hide images, and so much more. You can even edit css of a page live!!!!
Get the Web Developer by going to Tools>Extensions>Get More Extensions from Firefox or go to the Firefox Extension page. I did and I am very impressed with the tools this extension gives with just a quick click of the mouse.
Skip at 5:24 AM
Just a little FYI for anyone interested in the XP Service pack 2 microsoft has a list of applications that have issues with the upgrade. Make sure you check it out before proceeding.
Skip at 7:51 AM
A little amusement for Friday will be a visit to Spamusement. Where cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines are on view! Check out a few, and I'm sure you will get a chuckle or two.
Skip at 6:02 AM
The people at Avast! have just released a new version. Avast! 4 Home Edition is now free of charge for home users on NON-COMMERCIAL computers. It can be downloaded here after filling in a simple registration form. You can download and try it out or you can register and they will email you a download link and serial number. This gives you full use and one year of automatic signature updates. Like version 3 you will have to re-register once a year to be able to continue downloading signature updates. The new version seems very good so far. I like the Virus Recovery Database, where up to three versions of key windows files are kept safe in case of infection. These files can then be restored/repaired after the infection is removed.
Skip at 5:21 AM
As noted before I really like FireFox. At Hicks Design is an interesting item on how to tweak FireFox with CSS. There are some neat things shown on how to use CSS after installing Chris Neale’s ChromEdit extension.
Skip at 5:41 AM
If you are becoming as enamoured with Gmail as I am check out the page Mark Lyon has put together for us. A good starting point to get to is to upload your existing email into Gmail. There are some apps listed here to do that. As well several Gmail notifier apps for your systray or Mozilla.
Skip at 5:49 AM
Seems the summer doldrums has hit. I haven't seen anything interesting enough to get up an blog. If the present state of affairs continues I will be posting on a not too regular basis.
One interesting item in EWeek seems to indicate that the Yahoo Toolbar with Anti-Spy actually works now. Yahoo partnered with PestPatrol Inc. to build the Anti-Spy tool and had lots of complaints about how it worked, with Yahoo advertisers, led many to believe it was only semi-effective. I haven't tried it but it seems they have done a better job of letting users know about adware and spyware now.
I still think Ad-Aware is the best tool to protect your computer. It remains my number one choice.
Skip at 5:43 AM
A very good test of your skill at detecting fake emails is MailFrontier's Phishing IQ test. They have put together ten different emails they have been forwarded. You have to decide if they are real or fake. I missed one, how about you? I'm still not sure why I missed the one I did. I have to investigate that one. While I'm happy that I got 9 out of ten, it only takes one to mess up your life.
Skip at 5:39 AM
Helping to lower the average quality of Web content almost daily.