At least 3 times a week, my Feedburner count goes all wonky. Usually, that means my chicklet displays an odd number of followers, typically far less than I actually have – but sometimes, far more than I really have.
I know, I know, how many people read your blog is not as important as how you feel about and enjoy blogging, BUT it is unnerving to see my count drop to 88 readers from a high of 221, especially when it is on the tail end of me announcing that I’m going to incorporate more ideas and information into my blog!
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Posted 30 Mar 2009 — by Ellie
Category Technology
On the heels of Google Voice being introduced to GrandCentral users, Google has introduced Google Contacts – a standalone website where you can view and edit all of your Google Contacts.
Google Contacts is accessible via its own URL, but you can also access via Google Voice and Gmail. The interface is familiar and easy to use. One of my favorite features is that you can now merge contacts! This is great when you have one person in your contacts with 2, 3, or 4 various email addresses.
Posted 30 Mar 2009 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
Google Voice launched recently with a huge amount of fanfare from around the blogosphere. I’ve been a user of GrandCentral since it launched, so I was pleasantly pleased to see an upgrade to Google Voice. Unfortunately, Google Voice is still closed to new users, but keep checking back – the service will be opening to all Google users soon!
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Posted 09 Mar 2009 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
Just about everyone uses Gmail for their email today. Gmail continues to add new features to keep existing users happy and attract new users. One of the latest features is Gmail offline – and these applications make it easy to use Gmail offline.
GeeMail is an Adobe Air application that can work online and offline to provide Gmail to you where ever you may be. It also works on Windows, Mac and Linux. The keyboard shortcuts of Gmail work in GeeMail and the interface is the classic blue and white Gmail interface. Currently, there’s no support for search, but GeeMail does perform the basic functions of email.
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Posted 10 Feb 2009 — by Ellie
Category Technology
For many note takers, Evernote is a bit too powerful, Google Notebook is going the way of the dodo bird and Notepad just isn’t an acceptable replacement. CintaNotes, which comes in regular and portable versions, is lightweight and free – and has some of the features that have made Evernote popular – web clipping and easily editable notes.
If you just need a lightweight way to take notes – and take them with you, check out CintaNotes. It does have a lot of features, including searching notes and hotkeys. CintaNotes works with Firefox, IE and Safari on Windows PCs.
Posted 19 Jan 2009 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
Google Notebook will be around for a while, but Google has stopped development on this highly popular online notetaking tool. New users will not be added, and there will be no updates to the Google Notebook Firefox Extension.
The Official Google Notebook Blog suggests to use Google Docs, Tasks in Gmail Labs or Google Bookmarks. However, I have an even better suggestion – Evernote.
Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.
Posted 01 Dec 2008 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
Blogging can be a challenge for most of us – whether it is because life gets in the way of our blogging time, or it is a challenge to find great ideas. We’ve rounded up the top 10 essential blogging tools by reading dozens of blogs and keeping an eye on trends.
This list is by no means exhaustive, so if you have suggestions, let us know in the comments!
The Top 10 Essential Blogging Tools
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Posted 10 Nov 2008 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
One of my favorite jobs was working in tech support for a large international company. Not only did I learn a lot about to troubleshoot OS and software issues, but I also got hipped to Firefox! When I first got introduced to Firefox, it was version 1.0 and it was November, 2004! Now, 4 years later, I’m using version 3.0.3 and loving every moment of it!
If you are serious about web surfing, you will quickly find that many websites render (load) faster in Firefox, it is easily customizable through the options available out of the box, but you can choose from hundreds of add-ons (extensions) to add additional functionality!
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10 Must Have Firefox Add-ons for Serious Web Surfers
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Posted 28 Sep 2008 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
About time! Firefox 3 officially supports built-in Gmail as your default email client support!
I showed you a hack back in July that would force Gmail to be your default email client.
However, for those who aren’t as comfortable with coding, try these quick steps to set your Gmail account as your default email client:
- Open the Options window (or Preferences on Linux and Mac).
- Click the Applications tab.
- Type “mailto” (without the quotes) in the Search Field.
- In the Action column Select “Use Gmail”.
- Click OK.
You do not have to restart your browser.
This is a preview of
Firefox 3 Supports Built-in Gmail Default Email Client Support!
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