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iTunes is now number two in the US

2008-02-26T12:13:10-06:00

iTunes Now Number Two Music Retailer in the US

Who’s Your Email Daddy? Google, Yahoo, Hotmail?

2007-02-15T15:33:28-06:00

How many email accounts do you have? If you’re like most of us, more than one. Some of us have many email accounts.

What about free web mail accounts? I’ve had a Yahoo email account since the early days of free email. These days it catches mostly spam.

Who’s got the best web browser email? Google? Yahoo? MSN Hotmail? .Mac? Don’t get me started on .Mac.

I love Apple’s new .Mac email interface and how it looks like Apple’s OS X Mail, but I hate the lack of reliability of .Mac, a big reason why I won’t renew.

The obvious advantage to web-based email, email in your browser, is that mail is accessible from anywhere you’re online, in pretty much any browser.

What used to be the disadvantage was storage options. What was once a measly 10-megabytes of total email storage has given way to 1 gigabyte, then 2 gigabytes, and more.

I’ve been keeping all my mail accounts and most important messages and attachements in OS X’s Mail app. The grand total after five years of use is less than 400-megabytes (and I’m sure I could prune that even more).

Yahoo, Google, and Hotmail all offer more than enough mail storage space for most of us.

The question for the day is, “Which Free Email Service Is The Best For You, And Why?” Ok, that’s really two questions. Almost everyone I know has multiple email accounts these days.

If it’s not Yahoo, Google, or Hotmail, it’s email from work, email from the local internet service provider, email from various organizations, and so on. Many businesses have web-based browser email, too.

From a general perspective, the free browser-based email services work pretty much the same way. LoginID, password, compose new email, retrieve email, store email, add signatures, save attachments, manage various folders, manage email address lists.

What else is there? The user interfaces are generally spartan and devoid of many bells and whistles, but the basic functions remain the same.

Of the Big 4 (I’m generously including Apple’s .Mac mail in the list), which do you use and why?

Google Gmail - now fully out of beta and generally available for everyone, Google offers their typically spartain look with added AJAX functionality which speeds up the interface a bit. I’ve had a Gmail account since the early beta and it works fine, though not much different than Yahoo.

Yahoo Mail - there’s free Yahoo, and Yahoo Plus which will cost you money each month or year. I’ve had Yahoo mail since the very early days of browser mail and it’s improved remarkably in the past few years, especially capturing spam. Your mileage may vary.

Hotmail - Ewwww! It’s Microsoft. Still, tens of millions of Hotmail users can’t be wrong, right? I had Hotmail before it was Microsoft’s MSN toy, and finally stopped checking the account. I don’t know if it works or what features they offer these days.

After all, how many email accounts can you use?

Back to the question: who’s your web-based browser email daddy these days and why? What features do you use? What problems have you had? Is there anyone better than Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, or (sigh) .Mac?

WWDC is Sold out…

2008-05-15T12:26:26-06:00

Apparently WWDC has sold out for the first time ever. All I can say is wow, how cool is that.

New Safari 3.1

2008-03-18T13:39:48-06:00

Apple released today Safari 3.1 for OS X (via Software Update or download-requiring a Restart) and Windows (via download).

Safari 3.1 now get 75 (out of 100%) on the Acid 3 standards test. On the other hand the latest nightly Safari WebKit gets a 93. So it looks like by the end of the year Safari will be almost 100% web standard, the first browser to be like that.

New MacBook & MacBook Pros

2008-02-26T12:11:12-06:00

New MacBook Pros & MacBooks were released today February 26th.

Mac OS X update 10.4.11 kills SAFARI!!! Be careful!!!

2007-11-18T06:40:11-06:00

after downloading the latest update Mac OS X 10.4.11 this week, SAFARI 3, which is included in this update package, does not connect =i s dead!
And APPLE does not provide a stand-alone download for SAFARI 3 for MacOS X!
Only for WINDOWS!
Now, what do you think of this????
BE CAREFUL WITH THIS UPDATE

free download videos from youtube, Help…

2008-01-31T03:27:11-06:00

I access to the Youtube website from one of my friends. we both like rock�n roll very much. And often shoping at the CD�n VCD retails to search our favorite band or album. But since we are just students and don�t have much pocket money, the most way we can use is download them from website like youtube, myspce. And meanwhile we need a high speed downloading tool to help us and convert the formats for good quality, of cause it would better be free.
I�m sorry to wasting your time by asking this stupid question, but I�ve used many softwares which I searched from google, but It�s either function limited by trial or not a free edition,
thx.

Consumer Reports

2007-12-01T02:14:52-06:00

With a 64 rating, the iPhone is CU’s #1 smart phone. How ya like them Apples?

They rate movels by Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, and AT&T;, plus a different category for smart phones. No Verizon Wireless or Sprint Nextel phones get as high a rating. CU rates one T-Mobile model more highly than and one as highly as the iPhone. AT&T;, interestingly, scores two higher and two as highly.

This means that out of a grand total of 60 phones that CU reviewed by all carriers and in all categories, only three phone beat the iPhone and three more matched it.

Flash Cookies!

2007-12-01T10:46:27-06:00

Have you ever heard of Flash cookies? I hadn’t either until a couple of days ago when I listened to Leo Laporte’s internet stream of “Security Now! with Steve Gibson.”

It turns out that web developers have figured a way of using Flash, which resides on almost every computer, for storing cookies about which most users are completely unaware. I was! Furthermore there’s no way currently of editing those cookies from within the user’s computer environment. You can’t even access them. All is not lost, however. There is web access through the Adobe Flash site to these sneaky cookies. There you can establish permissons for future acceptance and delete current cookies. Do it today… you’ll be amazed by this hidden sneakery.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

Flock Rocks!

2007-11-12T11:15:13-06:00

Has anyone else discovered the newly released version 1.0 of Flock? Flock is billed as a browser for social networking users. It integrates Facebook, Flicr, YouTube, and other social networks. However, even if you aren’t into these networks, Flock is still a very useful browser. I’m surprised I’m not seeing more buzz about Flock. You can check it out at http://www.flock.com/