If you logged into your Gmail today you might have seen something like this: I’d love to find out how many people are searching their mailboxes for this new feature or contacting tech support to find out how to do it 🙂 Gotta love Google.…
Author: Nicole Hernandez
Yahoo! announced that it is going to start offering unlimited email storage to its users. When? Well according to the post, Yahoo! “will begin offering everyone unlimited email storage starting in May 2007.” However, you may not have your Yahoo! account updated in May specifically.…
And people say that techies don’t have a sense of humor. Well, likely PayForPost won’t have much of one about the obvious ‘spin-off’ of their service, but it’s hilarious nonetheless. BegForPost doesn’t pull any punches when it states baldly on the homepage: “BegForPost will allow…
I think that it’s a lost art in many ways – coding by hand. With all the visual point-and-click editors out there, few people code from scratch anymore. Personally, I prefer hand coding and will until a visual editor comes along that works well enough…
Geni is an online service offering free family tree organization, and it’s definitely on its way up. In a nutshell, Geni allows the user to sign up for free and create their family tree. Where it becomes really dynamic is that you can invite other…
Recently I posted an article which talked about the reasons to avoid using javascript navigation. The article listed reasons, but not alternatives, so that’s what I’d like to spend some time talking about. Secondary Navigation I feel that the best alternative to javascript navigation is…
Over time many bad web design ideas have been dropped or lost favour, including unnecessary splash screens and unwieldy framesets, for the good of the web user. However, one web design bad habit that persists is the JavaScript Dynamic Navigation. This is bad news for…
A few weeks ago I ordered Jeremy Keith’s DOM Scripting book. (Yes, I know I’m far behind in my reading, but life has been busy.) I’ve had some free time lately to read through it and I think it’s really quite good (yes, I actually…
This morning the server was given life again, and the blog is back up. My first order of business was to make a backup of my database (which I had somehow neglected to do for a couple of years). So, it’s good news, and everything…
I heard from Kalle, my sys admin, this morning and it looks like the server may have succeeded with it’s previous suicide attempt, at least mostly. In his words, “it seems quite dead”… I think that says it all. He’s going to attempt to get…