Google adds a new setting to Gmail to allow the user to specify that all their activity should be done over a SSL connection. You could change the URL before manually from http to https, but now you can have it done automatically. This allows you to encrypt the data the transfers between your computer […]
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Crystal Reports 10 Runtime and Citrix
Earlier this week I installed the Crystal Reports 10 run time on a client’s Citrix server. After installing I tried to run our application and the run time kept on giving me an error saying “Load report failed”. Doing some research we found that the Crystal run time when installed assumes there is going to […]
Read moreCheat Sheets
Came across these cheat sheets today: Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers Windows, Google Search, Gmail, Google Reader For Developers Linux Various
Read moreHow To Make Your Website Faster
The video is of a presentation done by Steve Sounders who now works for Google. He used to work for Yahoo where he created the YSlow for Firefox. He talks about how to make your page load faster for the visitor instead of the common part of how to generate the page on the server […]
Read moreUpgrading from iPhone to iPhone 3G?
GMail Updates Contact Manager
One of the things I have found annoying with GMail is that it would automatically create contacts based on my email activity. I have ended up with a full contact manager that has some people in there many times. Well the GMail team announced today that you can now turn off the auto create function […]
Read moreGMail doing more to fight phishing
GMail has announced that they have rolled out stricter criteria for verifying emails from eBay and Paypal to ensure they are really coming from them. eBay and Paypal are now signing all their email with DomainKeys. GMail used to just display a message above the email warning you that the message may not be from […]
Read moreGMail Remote Signout and Activity Tracking
Have you ever forgot to logout of your GMail account while on someone elses computer? Do you have some “interesting” emails that you would rather people not see? Do you think someone else has access to your account? Well Google just rolled out the Remote Signout and the ability to see what recent activity has […]
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