http://www.jasonwebber.com Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:24:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amazon EC2 is now out of Beta after two year and now gets an SLA. Service Commitments and Service Credits If the Annual Uptime Percentage for a customer drops below 99.95% for the Service Year, that customer is eligible to receive a Service Credit equal to 10% of their bill for the ... http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/10/24/amazon-ec2-exists-beta-and-gets-sla/ The Gmail team has rolled out version 2.0 of their mobile client for J2ME-supported and BlackBerry phones. http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/10/24/gmail-mobile-20-faster-smoother-offline-support/ Gmail has rolled out new emoticons to choose from when words just can describe what you are feeling. http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/10/24/gmail-rolls-out-new-emoticons/ Gmail announces a new Lab feature for Advanced IMAP Controls.  These new options will allow you to better control your IMAP experience down to the label level. http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/10/09/gmail-labs-advanced-imap-control/ Today Amazon anounced new tiered pricing for the S3 service. For the United States:  Storage — Current Pricing (thru October 31st) $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Storage — New Pricing (effective November 1st) $0.150 per GB – first 50 TB / month of storage used $0.140 per GB – next 50 TB / month of ... http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/10/09/amazon-announces-tiered-pricing-for-s3/ Do you have a tendancy of sending emails late at night that you really shouldn't?  Maybe after a long night out drinking?  Well the Gmail team has just rolled out Mail Goggles which may come to the rescue.  Once activate Gmail will prompt you with a couple simple math problems ... http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/10/06/gmail-introduces-mail-goggles/ The other day I was trying to help a client connect to the Console Session on a Windows 2003 Server from their XP computer.  For some reason connecting via mstsc.exe /console they were not getting connected to the console.  What was odd was that from my XP laptop I had no ... http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/10/04/xp-sp3-remote-desktop-and-console-session/ Amazon has announced that later this fall that they will offer the ability to run Windows Server and SQL Server in the EC2 environment. http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/10/01/amazon-ec2-running-windows-server-coming-soon/ If you were not aware of it today is Talk Like a Pirate Day.  To help ensure that Pirates can search for the content they are looking for online Google has added support for the pirate langauage to their search engine. http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/09/19/google-and-talk-like-a-pirate-day/ This week Gmail made availible in the Labs one of the more helpful options, the Forgotten attachment detector. Atleast twice a month I seem to forgot to attach a file and it always seems to be one of those more important emails.  Hopefully this will help. http://www.jasonwebber.com/2008/09/19/gmail-forgotten-attachment-detector/