If you wish to change your Gmail account (Google Account) and use services like FeedBurner which is linked to your Google Account, you are given the option to transfer ownership of your FeedBurner feeds to another Google/Gmail account. This is extremely helpful because it keeps you from having to publish another feed under the new…Continue Reading
I logged on to Wave the other day and I realized that I still had 5 invitations left. The reason there are invitations is because Google Wave is still in limited preview, which means that you need to register and then Google has to invite you in order to be able to use Google Wave….Continue Reading
In an effort to educate computer users about the potential dangers of fake virus scanner pop-ups and how to close the pop-ups without infecting their computers I put together a one page PDF that summarizes the threat and lists some steps to help mitigate its impact. The idea came from a similar campaign that was…Continue Reading
As more of us rely on memory keys, thumb drives, and other portable storage devices to save our sensitive information, it is imperative that we ensure the stored information is secured and remains private. The list below is a compilation of various applications that are designed to encrypt the information on portable storage devices. Most…Continue Reading
If you have ever sent an email using Gmail with one of your other email accounts (bellsouth.net, yourdomain.com, etc) you’ll notice that the message sent to the recipient lists, gilbert@gilsmethod.com (your real email – @yourdomain) on behalf of gilbert@gmail.com (your Gmail account @gmail) as the From: address. Gmail announced today that they will allow users…Continue Reading
Sick of the PriceGrabbers of the world? Don’t fret, there is an abundance of shop comparison web sites online. The list below is the result of several hours worth of Google searches and putting together a good list of shop comparison websites. I’ve included price comparison, product comparison, and Woot! like websites on this list….Continue Reading
As more computer users flock to the cloud to store their information, the amount of personal information online is increasing at an exponential rate. Along with that growth is the increased risk associated with the exposure of private and sensitive information over the internet. When we upload personal data to services like Google Docs or…Continue Reading
If you’re using WordPress as your blog’s publishing platform and you have yet to enable Turbo, you’re missing out."The speed increase is most noticeable when Internet is slow or on high latency and makes everybody’s blogging experience more enjoyable." When enabled, Turbo essentially uses a local copy of the admin area of your WordPress installation…Continue Reading
PLEASE NOTE: Article has been updated to reflect changes to Feedburner ID once a user switches to Feedburner by Google – 2/25/09 One of the things that I’ve been working on as part of the transfer of Gil’s Method is the design (one of my biggest challenges). While modifying the WordPress theme that I’m using,…Continue Reading
Every time you type www.GilsMethod.com Windows sends a request to your internet provider’s nameserver, these servers then respond with an address like 109.239.146.34 (which is the true address format for all servers). Using this information your browser can now download the information stored on the server (the website you’re visiting) so that it can be…Continue Reading
So you don’t want to spend the big bucks to buy a suite like Photoshop to edit pictures, are you’re sick of Microsoft Paint and other basic photo editors? What if I told you the next time you edit a picture will be online and for free? Don’t believe me? Well run a search on…Continue Reading
I’ve always been a fan of Google Maps, and became even more enthusiastic about the product when Google gave developers the ability to create web applications (mashups) that used Google Maps data in conjunction with other data to display anything on a map. It has been a couple of years since this occurred and the…Continue Reading
Popurio.us is a service that allows users to check the popularity of websites across the plethora of services and rankings available on the net. This is a great tool for webmasters who would like to quickly get a glance of their sites popularity in the web. A couple of popular rankings and bookmark sites are…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
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One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading