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Google announces Priority Inbox, only six days too late

Image via Wikipedia I’ve come to the realization that email is destroying my productivity.  It’s not a distraction; it’s destruction.  There are days that I find I’ve gotten nothing done but handling emails.  It’s a completely victim-oriented approach to time management, having your day driven by what drops into your inbox. So I began the [...]

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Google operates on geological time

They consider a decade to be a short downtime.  On the bright side, we’re over half-way through it. On January 1, 2005, AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 3:00 AM to January 1, 2015 3:00 AM Eastern Time due to system maintenance. Please note that your campaigns will continue to run normally during this [...]

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What the heck is that?!

I happened to spot this in my GMail spam folder. I’ve never seen a character like this in a browser before.  It reminds me of the old days, where individual characters could be constructed by setting each bit. I don’t understand where my machine would get a font with such a character. I can only [...]

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GMail hover “From:” address broken?

What’s happened to GMail?  I used to be able to hover over the sender’s text name and see a pop-up hint showing the actual email address.  That stopped working a week or two ago.  I miss it!

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