Goolge plans to double Gmail capacity!

Just minutes ago, I logged into my Gmail account noticing that my email space had risen to 1150mb. At first I didn’t think anything of it, because we’ve seen weird things happen to our space before.

But just as I logged out, I realized what day it was – April, 1^st 2005! Gmail’s one year anniversary!

With further investigation, I find that Google plans to offer a bottom-less cup of storage with its Gmail Web-based e-mail service, dramatically raising the bar for rivals in the sharply competitive business for the second time in a year.

Check out Gmail’s home page for more information: http://gmail.google.com/

If you’d like to give Gmail a shot, sign up and request an invite via our forum.

~ [Clayton] —- Getting the most out of Firefox - Extensions

BBC NEWS Health Brain chip reads man’s thoughts

I’m not even sure what to say about this one, but maybe…. wow…..or …… whoa! I mean the technology for this is mind blowing (pardon the pun ). This means we could hack into someone’s brain, and gain information. That’s the wow part. The whoa part is what are the God implications of this: spiritually, emotionally, ethically, physically? Anyway read the article for sure!

Sam Knowles

to reach into the tech arena. I know if I’ve heard of the show “Pimp My Ride,” then most people have. Well now, in reality t.v. format, we have “Extreme PC Garage.” That’s right, a show that will take your old lame computer and jazz it with the most cutting edge gaming components as well as customize your case. Okay, I’ll probably watch it, but I have to confess, I am so ready for something other than reality shows….. am I alone? I’m sure this show will be informative as well as entertaining which is a good way to let people know what is latest and greatest on the gaming frontier. If you want to check out the trailer for it, click here.

We’ll see how it goes!

Grace,

Sam Knowles

Mozilla has just released version 1.0.2 of the award-winning Firefox browser.

In its latest update (technically “version”), Mozilla claims to have plugged a few security holes that could have been threatening your PC. So if you use the Mozilla Firefox browser, make sure you download the newest version.

If you don’t use Mozilla Firefox, you should seriously consider taking a look at it. It protects your PC from unwanted malware applications that may access your computer via Active-X, etc. Overall, Firefox is a more stable browser and should be used over Internet Explore any day.

For more information on this latest update from Mozilla, go to http://www.mozilla.org/

Clayton Rice

by tollie

Looking for a file, but you can’t remember its name? Do you just remember what the file contains? Don’t count on Windows “Find Files” to help out. What you can count on is a continuing competition between the search engine rivals - Yahoo, MSN, and the current top dog- Google.

Yahoo has a plethora of free and paid services, like Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo, Yahoo News, Yahoo Photos, Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Local, Yahoo Messenger, and announced this week: Flickr - a easy to use photo posting and sharing service that put Yahoo Photos underdeveloped features to shame.

Google has a better search rank method, Blogger, GMail, a now customizable Google News, Google Maps, Google Local, and Froogle.

Microsoft has a monopoly on default homepages with an inferior bundled browser.

And they all have a new desktop search offering. Who will be best? Truthfully, it’s too early to tell.

What made Google’s Search stand out and be so good on the internet doesn’t apply when it comes to the computer, where files are not tied together by hyper-links, and Google’s Desktop Search interface is sadly bland. Microsoft has a good looking interface, but why don’t they just fix the lacking Windows’ “Find Files” instead? — because they want to make more money by directing you to and through MSN, which is the worst of the three. And Yahoo is just getting started, and already appears to have a cluttered interface.

Currently, none of these are offered to anything but Windows, but Mac users will soon have (expected in April) the best desktop search anyways, built into their operating system, OS X, called Spotlight.

Give one a try, if you want, and then vote in our forums to tell us which one you like.

• Copernic Desktop Search
• Google Desktop Search
• Microsoft MSN Desktop Search
• Yahoo Desktop Search

Wired News: Hackers Tilt PowerBook for Tricks

      Back in the day, when a machine went tilt, it was pinball gameover. But some hackers have given tilt a whole new meaning for Powerbook users. Now Apple has never utilized the full potential of the mouse, (How can anyone use just one mouse button efficiently?). But now hackers may make mice obsolete. Imagine if you will advancing to the next song by rocking your Powerbook forward….. it could happen.

Interesting what all motion sensing tricks may be coming down the pike.

Sam Knowles

My family recently cut the cord, so to say. Previously, we owned two cell phones - one for me, one for my parents - and a home telephone “land line” with ADSL (broadband internet). When we decided it would be cheaper for us to get rid of the land line and add another cell phone, I was disappointed to find out the Bell South, at least here in Alabama, requires you order home phone service if you want their ADSL service.

Well, perhaps Bell South was then disappointed when we got rid of both our home phone service and our ADSL service, and switched to DSL’s rival: the cable modem.

To no one’s surprise, the phone companies who typically have a monopoly over the home phone service, and who see cell phones as a legitimate threat to their business, want to force users of their competitive broadband offerings into their much higher profit margin home phone service as well.

Cable internet and DSL internet are priced reasonably because they’re in competition. Competition is good.

Home phone, “land line” service is generally not in competition and it’s priced with a large profit margin. Monopolies are bad.

So here is the Bells’ wager: They are counting on customers who want broadband internet staying locked into their home phone service, so they can keep advertising DSL cheaply enough to attract new customers, but continuing to charge their high prices to a slowly but definitely shrinking market of land line phones. They’re hoping that happens, and not the opposite - as cable modem service continues to expand, more customers choose the cable internet and also eventually migrate away from their Bell-owned land lines altogether.

And that’s what we did, and it was much cheaper. We added a cell phone for $10 more a month, dropped our much more expensive land line and kept the old land line number by assigning it to the new cell phone (something anyone can do). We changed from BellSouth DSL internet to the similarly priced Charter Cable internet and even in the process got some extra digital cable features as a ‘thank you’ from Charter.

So, in sum: we now each have our own cell phone, and we have more cable channels, and oh yeah - it’s cheaper than when we had BellSouth coming into our house.

I’m writing about this, because the FCC is trying to undo the laws of a few states that had wisely forced their tel-co’s to separate their DSL from their home phone access. The FCC is not being good here.

- tollie

Well, Intel’s version of 802.11n the new higher speed, broader reaching wireless connection seems to be the favorite of the IEEE, but they have to grab 75 percent of the votes in May. Only time will tell, or only IN will TEL….. he he he I couldn’t resist.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21944

Aopen has created a negative ion computer mouse that will create a bubble around the user that will be somewhat cleaned of viruses, smoke particles, dust, etc. The downside? You’ll probably have to clean the mouse more and I kinda doubt it will work too well. Opinions to the contrary welcome.

/Chase

Aopen creates negative ion mouse

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In an experiment that reminds one of the beginning of an apocolypse movie, or perhaps a comic book explaining the origins of a super villain, a U.S. lab created a small fireball that has characteristics of a black hole. Call me crazy - but this doesn’t sound like the greatest idea I’ve ever heard, though, maybe it’d be cool to be near the lab when it all goes down, so I could become Blackhole lad and fight crime.

/Blackhole Lad //Check out our websites of the week for some great links to download ’80’s tv theme songs.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Lab fireball ‘may be black hole’

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