Am I Spamming You?

July 7th, 2010

I’ve been having major spam issues with my Google Mail accounts over the last couple of months. It started in May, when my inbox received a barrage of failed delivery emails.
Each one seemingly sent from [random_string]@icedcoffee.ie. The automatic return emails are from ‘Postmaster’, ‘Mail Delivery Service’, ‘Content-filter at…’, ‘Mailer-Daemon’, ‘(unknown sender)’ etc, with various expected [...]


Google Gets Social — Well They’re Trying

February 10th, 2010

Yahoo! Buzz was released in August 2008, but where was the hype and fuss surrounding it’s launch? Yahoo, according to Hitwise statistics (as of week ending 06/02/2010) is the biggest webmail provider, followed by Hotmail and Gmail. But rarely do the others cause as much of a ‘Buzz’ (pun inexcusable) as Google, and naturally Yahoo! [...]


Google Superbowl XLIV Ad

February 8th, 2010

I barely know what the Super Bowl is, other than the most hyped sporting event in the US calendar. However, it isn’t the game that many people are concerned with, its the commercials – with around 50 being aired during the game.
The idea that the Super Bowl is full of “crass commercialization, exuberant prices, [...]


Managing RSS – How To Organise Feeds

January 14th, 2010

I read many blogs and websites every day. I consider it a massive fail if a site doesn’t have an RSS feed (I consider using feedburner important, especially if you’re in the world of marketing/tracking stats). Although the design of a website is important to me (yes those with blogspot default themes must be amazing [...]


How To Rename Folders in Google Reader

January 14th, 2010

As this is a fairly complicated process, I’ve made my own short guide to renaming folders in Google Reader.

Select a feed to put into the new folder.
In the ‘Feed Settings’ drop-down select ‘New Folder’:

Enter the new name for the folder:

Then


Yes, Google, we know there is crap on the internet but…

January 31st, 2009

For about almost an hour this afternoon Google screwed things up a little by labelling all of the internet as Malware. It was certainly a little alarming and a bit annoying as I would use Google *alot* and even in that short space of time. The link which resulted from every search result was a [...]