Last week Google announced that they would no longer be developing or supporting Google Notebook among other projects. If you are like me you went into panic mode. Even though Google is saying that they are not going to pull the plug on Notebook real soon the Firefox browser plug-in that I have grown to love and use everyday will be no more. So I went out looking for alternatives to Google Notebook and found a couple but the one I really like is Zoho Notebook. And their annoucement today of an updated Firefox plug-in update really seals the deal  [ Read More ]

Do you use Google Gmail? Have you tried the Gmail labs features? If you have and enabled the calendar feature of Gmail labs you may be seeing an authentication request if you are accessing Gmail using Google Chrome. For some reason Chrome cannot keep Gmail convinced that it is authentic in order to continue to display your Google calendar on the side of Gmail. Not sure why this is happening but if you do not want to continue to have to cancel this request you can disable your choice for the calendar in Gmail labs section.

How many versions of Java do you have installed on your computer? Have you ever looked at the add remove programs applet in the control panel and thought about checking to see? Well chances are like me you have not. When I looked I found not one but three versions of Java installed on my computer all of them taking up a pretty fair amount of space. I would have never thought to check this had I not come across JavaRa. Part of what this quick little program does is first check to see if you have the most current  [ Read More ]