Likely me just feeling cranky since I do use Gmail, be it not for anything business related. And while these events described here as being unrelated, it does little to those who might have been effected.Yes, it is true that phishing schemes happen all the time. And yes, Gmail has been hit with more...

Mashable besteedt aandacht aan vijf websites waarmee je documenten gezamenlijk kunt bewerken. Vier van die sites zijn ook al eens aan bod gekomen op ZB Digitaal, maar de bovenste, EtherPad, kende ik nog niet. Je zou denken dat de meeste mensen wel genoegen nemen met tools als Google Docs of Zoho, ma...

There will be times where, no matter how you try, you simply can’t share your ideas with text alone. At the same time, you may not be willing to whip out your video recording software and go through the steps of editing a video, adding or editing sound, uploading it to a server and possibly co...

Small and medium sized business customers are flocking to Google Apps. One of Google’s spokespeople said that they were adding 2,000 customers per day at the end of 2007 and 3,000 customers per day at the end of 2008. I decided to do a little math to see what this all meant. Assuming that Year...

During my research for this post, I stumbled across an endless list of great posts (see below) that offer great tips on the best Web tools for students. But the advice here isn’t just for students. I’m no longer a student but I do tons of research and writing for work and I found these t...

Like President Barack Obama said, it’s about getting up and dusting ourselves off. He also mentioned risk taking, and doers, and creativity. In software publishing, as much as anywhere, the web continues to change the business landscape. Retail markets go down in a double-whammy of technolog...

The time it takes to boot up a computer can be a source of frustration — especially if you’re in a rush and just want to log on, get information and move on with your day. If televisions took as long as PCs take to start working, we’d miss game-winning touchdowns. Slow boot-up time...

Making regular backups of the data on your computer is a smart thing to do, though it can be tedious. Burning CDs or DVDs, or moving files to an external hard drive once a week (or however often you plan to back up your data) is a time consuming process. That’s why many people seek automated b...

Ever lost all of your data, your tweets, photos, blog files, etc? Most of us don’t rely much on backing up data that frequently or never at all. But worry not, LifestreamBackup – a new startup(coming in two weeks), that aims to provide the peace of mind that your lifestream data will always ...

Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. Does the new Palm Pre smart phone use the traditional Palm operating system and the many programs that have been written for it? Palm’s P...