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Interesting. Today, I was able to log in to my AIM account again, which I had been an issue I was dealing with. So, it appears that the monkeys at AOL have removed the curse caused by associating an XDrive account with and AIM account.

This pleases me.

Am I so pleased that I will continue to use XDrive or recommend it to friends? No. (Continued)

So, a little over a week ago, I went prowling the interwebs for an online storage service which would make it easy to share large files with friends/family. My search led me to a couple of candidates and from them I chose XDrive.

Since I am an AOL Instant Messanger (AIM) user, I thought this would be a great fit. So, I signed up for an account and then proceeded to upload files for testing. Everything was going great… or so I thought. (Continued)

I have written many times before about how great the anti-spam feature of Gmail is. (12,064 today and counting, by the way.)

Today I wanted to share some tips that I have picked up which aid considerably with my Gmail usage: dot & plus addressing.

Gmail addresses are much like any other e-mail addresses out there and are in the format yourname@gmail.com. No surprises there. Where it gets interesting is that you can alter the e-mail address you give out to others (including web sites) and they are all delivered to the same mailbox in Gmail. (Continued)

In a previous post, I commented on just how much spam I had received during a one-month time frame. At the time of the post, on 17 November, I had acquired 5,481 spam e-mail messages.

A little under a month later, on 12 December, I updated the post to indicate that the total number of e-mail messages in my spam folder had risen to 7,184.

Now, (Continued)

So, we are right around the corner from Microsoft finally unleashing their next operating system, Windows Vista, upon the public. I cannot help but think that this will be another mediocre product from the folks in Redmond. This will not be for lack of effort or for trying to be all things to all people. Far from it. However, I do believe that this is also the main reason why Vista will not be good in the long run.

You see, with Vista, Microsoft fails to even remotely consider one of the basic principals of product development: K.I.S.S. How do I know this? Well, for starters, (Continued)

So, a little under a month ago, I wrote about the global e-mail plague.

Well, It seems as though things have gotten worse. As of this writing, the spam filter on my e-mail client of choice has nabbed 10,686 messages.

Since e-mail older than 30-days automatically gets trashed, that means I have received almost 11,000 spam messages in a month.

Wow.

I stumbled across this the other day and thought I would share with those who care.

Though I do not have to access it often, there are some times where it is helpful to change a particular setting within an application to suit whatever the immediate need is. And, while it is really easy to do this by simply clicking on the application name from the menu bar and then clicking on “Preferences..”, if there is a keyboard shortcut for the same action, then I am all over it because they usually save lots of time.

Enter: Command-comma.

Use it whenever you want to open up the preferences for the application currently in “focus.”

Granted, this is not earth shattering, but it definitely is a time saver. And, it totally beats the pants off of anything Windows has to offer. (Please, if anyone knows of a keyboard shortcut in Windows that does the same thing as Tools -> Options, please pass it along.)

Last January, my wife and I took the plunge and purchased one of the (at the time) new iMacs from Apple with the Intel Core Duo processor. This decision did not happen overnight. In fact, it had been something I was contemplating for well over a year before I actually made the purchase. Being a (for the most part) lifetime PC user, I needed to make sure that the transition was going to be as smooth as possible.

Let me just tell you, it could not have been any easier. (Continued)

Amazing.

The “spam” folder on my e-mail client of choice has acquired 5481 messages since October 15th. That is a lot of junk mail.

Surprisingly, it seems to be getting worse. My e-mail client automatically deletes spam messages older than 30-days, and that folder normally hovers around the 2500 mark. So, in the past month, it appears to have gotten twice as bad as normal. Crazy.

How is it that people who send this junk are still around? (Continued)