Remember the Gmail outage that happened about 2 weeks ago? It lasted about 4 hours causing users to panic and left many “stranded” because they were not able to send or receive emails. What most users didn’t know is that the web version of Gmail was the only one affected or inaccessible. For those people [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Webmail or web e-mail services are very popular amongst users because they are easily accessible and free to use. The top players in today’s webmail market are Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail and AOL. Gmail revolutionized webmail when it was publicly released in 2007 and offered 1 GB of storage capacity when its competitors [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 23, 2008
UPDATE: Thanks to Aja for pointing out that this should be roundup #25. I didn’t see that I already published #24 because I filed it in the wrong category. Yes folks, the Weekend Roundup is back! It’s been eight months since I last published the last roundup. I never intended to stop this weekly feature but [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Last week, I received another phishing email pretending to be from PayPal. This time, it was easier to spot that it was a fake email compared to the first PayPal phishing email I got earlier this month. What’s good is that Gmail’s spam filtering system was able to detect it was a phishing email [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Yesterday, while I was checking my Gmail spam folder I came across an email that’s supposedly from PayPal. It says in the email that my PayPal account has been temporarily blocked because of several login attempts from different global locations. This is the second time I received a phishing email that’s pretending to be from [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 17, 2007
UPDATE: I went out to buy some stuff from Target. When I got back, I was able to login to my Gmail account and everything seems to be working fine now. Earlier, I was logged in to my Gmail account and was gonna delete two message when all of a sudden I get an error message. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 31, 2007
Yesterday, as I was installing and activating a new Wordpress plugin I suddenly got a “Fatal Error” message in my browser window. It was something like this:Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 46080 bytes) in … As soon as I saw that error message, I immediately tried to go back [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 8, 2007
A month ago, I mentioned in my interview with Blog-O-Rama that one of my goals was to have paid hosting for JaypeeOnline and now it’s become a reality. Yes, I finally have my own paid web hosting with Dreamhost. (thanks Jim!) I signed-up last Friday but I was too busy and didn’t have time to do [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 31, 2007
What is Gmail Paper? Gmail Paper is a new feature on Gmail that lets you request a physical copy of your email with a single click of a button. All you have to do is select the emails that you want to be printed and click on “Paper Archive”. Google will immediately print them for you [...]
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
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