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We want our email, and we want it fast. The goal of this guide is to replace outlook as your primary mail collector with Gmail. I just took the plunge and it’s been such a huge improvement that I want you to benefit as well. We want Gmail to open as if it’s an application, save it’s position on your screen, and notify you of new emails just as Outlook does.

I’ve encountered a simple, yet annoying problem when it comes to Google’s Gmail Notifier.  It turns out that if you select the option to always use HTTPS, then the notifier will not work.  The fix can be seen on the Notifier page, which is a registry edit.
Surely Google can do a better job of notifying us of [...]

Have you recently discovered a long list of amazonaws.com IPs listed in your websites stats and wondered what’s it for?  I was under the assumption that if I saw those IPs it’d probably be good news because I thought Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud had reputable clients.  It turns out that Amazon’s EC2 is a breeding [...]

By now everyone has heard of the iTunes commercials and the phrase “There’s an app for that”, but how much staying power does it really have?  Just yesterday Google released Google Voice as a standalone web application that can be used in the browser.  For some of us, it’s hard to imagine why this might [...]

One of the most important aspects of a web browser today is how good it is at blocking ads. Users thinking about switching to Chrome from Firefox NEED to have a reliable ad blocker. The two best ad blockers are AdThwart and AdBlock. They both support EasyList, but that doesn’t mean they are both equally effective and user friendly.

Google Chrome, Developer version 4.0.302.2 includes a new way to easily search a website.  When typing a URL into the address bar, an option comes up to “Press Tab to search”.  Have a look below:
The feature looks great to me.  My only question is how Chrome decides which sites are available to search and which [...]

Today Google announced another new feature of Rich Snippets called Events. Of course it is a great idea to provide more markup to better track events of concerts, sporting events, movies, etc. However, what if Rich Snippets could be used for a slightly different reason? News updates on events or people.

Everyone must of heard the news that Firefox 3.6 has finally come out. There is a video mentioning all of the new changes in 3.6.  Mike Beltzner made mention of a benchmark called SunSpider and said that 3.6 had increased speed to 995 ms, down from 1188 ms.  I thought to myself, now that [...]

Have you ever stopped to wonder how some of the biggest sports websites compare when it comes to speed and modern optimizations?  A lot of todays websites are using cutting edge features and embracing new technology, whether it be modern Javascript frameworks or a mesh of flash and embedded videos.  While it’s great to use these things to make [...]

Very recently Mashable created a post on their site indicating 5 reason why “Internet Explorer 6 Must Die”. I was so inspired by their post that I decided to create 5 reasons Mashable is bad for the Web