Il Filosofo

Today I Was Part of a “Very Isolated, Very Random” Problem

September 26, 2006 – 10:46 pm

. . . according to a Comcast spokesperson. Our good buddies at IDG News Service report that the failure of a DNS (domain name system) server at Comcast caused problems for some Web surfers in the northeast section of the U.S. today, making several Web sites, including Google, inaccessible. The server failure caused connectivity problems for a [...]

By filosofo | Posted in Boston, Comcast, Gmail, Google, Internet | 1 comment

Gmail Hasn’t Fixed the Real Reply Problem

February 23, 2006 – 7:39 am

Garett Rogers of ZDNet points out that Gmail now allows you to have replies automatically be from the receiving address, if you have Gmail set up to send from different email accounts. But Gmail hasn’t fixed a much more serious problem, in my opinion, one that I pointed out two months ago: your Gmail account [...]

By filosofo | Posted in Gmail, Internet | 15 comments

Use Gmail’s Accounts Feature? Your Private Email is Showing

December 12, 2005 – 2:13 pm

Gmail’s “Accounts” feature lets you send emails from different addresses. I’ve been using it to send emails from my work email address, and emails sent to my work address forward automatically to my Gmail account. That means I can organize, send, and receive all my emails from one central location, without giving away [...]

By filosofo | Posted in Gmail, Google, Internet | 4 comments

How much does Google know?

April 5, 2005 – 12:09 pm

A Wired article today provides some reasons to be wary of Gmail in particular and search engines in general. Apparently Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves all associate your searches with your cookie information. That’s another reason to use Firefox extensions to keep an eye on your cookies.

By filosofo | Posted in Computers, Gmail, Google | Please write a comment

Gmail doubles its storage

April 4, 2005 – 3:00 pm