Top 10 Reasons why Gmail is so popular

10.  It works as advertised and even better

9. Its free and there is lots of room for your mail 

8. you can find your old emails using their search function

7. Its mobile on our phone

6. It has an intergrated calender and task manager

5. You can SMS using it.  Much easier than using my damm phone.

4. It is a phone too and thats free too,

3. Its video phone too and thats free too

2. Sorts your mail into conversation threads.

1. gets rid of spam

I dont even use most of its features and its a timesaver.  You can now use it with your domain name too.  

You can theme up your account too

 

find out what new here.http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about_whatsnew.html

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Hilarious ending. Funny coffee video.

Black Coffee: Trails of Tarnation - Chapter 1 from New Picture Agencies on Vimeo.

By Nick Gurewitch from his current project http://www.trailsoftarnation.com

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I think Harry Potter did it.

Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Has Been Found

After a week of mystery, the Bronx Zoo cobra has been found.

The infamous snake, who last week absconded from her zoo quarters and has been at large ever since, was found early Thursday at the Bronx Zoo Reptile House.

The pencil-thin Egyptian cobra, which has spawned a hugely successful Twitter account (which on last count had over 200,000 followers) and countlessmarketing opportunities that come with becoming a beloved meme, is "alive and well," the zoo said

Complete article at huffingtonpost.com

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Happy Birthday Gmail

2004: Google unveils Gmail. It will change webmail … and a few other things as well.

Seven years ago, if we wanted to talk to somebody halfway around the world, we’d open up Outlook, Eudora or some other bulky piece of software on our desktops and type an e-mail.

Most of us had webmail, which was a convenience on the road since we could access it from any computer, but it wasn’t enjoyable. Web inboxes were slow and cumbersome, messy with checkboxes and radio buttons, and often so riddled with spam they had to be emptied frequently lest they reach capacity.

Gmail changed all that. It was fast and elegant just like a desktop app. There was so much storage, you never had to delete anything. In fact, you couldn’t — there wasn’t even a Delete button! And you didn’t miss the Delete button, because it was almost entirely spam-free.

Gmail was so slick and easy to use, many of us switched to it full-time and have never gone back.

On its seventh birthday, it’s difficult to ignore the enormous influence Gmail has had not only on web-based e-mail services, but on rich web applications in general. Several of the concepts introduced by Gmail, which were at the time on the bleeding edge of application design, have since been adopted by the web’s mainstream.

Complete article via wired.com

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Japan Explains Nuclear Problem to Japanese Kids

via todaysbigthing.com

Anime used to help explan the nuke situation to Japanese kids. The ananlogy is that the reactor farted, but dont worry at least it didn't crap. The "doctors" the Fukushima 50 are giving it medicine - cold water. It should get better. But we will take precautions by putting a diaper on it.

Its weird alright. pictured is the crap and the worst case scenario the leaky diaper. Yikes....

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What a waste

via huffingtonpost.com

This is an arial shot of a undeveloped subdivision in Fl. The foreclosure crisis hit and this was never built. It perhaps should have never been started.

An unfinished section of cul-de-sac developments in Charlotte County, Florida. According to RealtyTrac, compared to the same period last year, foreclosures rose 40% in July in the Charlotte, Manatee and Sarasota counties. Charlotte County's foreclosure rate rose 61 percent.

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Google Chooses Kansas City, Kansas, as Broadband Mecca

via wired.com

Sorry Rochester that Google did not choose you for their experiment.
If Google can make internet access cheaper, I'm all for this. Go Google.

 

There’s no place like home — especially if you live Kansas City, Kansas, where houses will soon be connected to the net by fiber-optic cables that Google promises will deliver 1-gigabit-per-second internet connections — roughly a hundred times faster than a typical 10-Mbps cable connection.

With that fast a connection, it becomes possible to download a full-length feature film from iTunes in seconds.

More than 1,100 cities and town applied to be the testbed, highlighting the dismal state of broadband connections around the country. The Tuesday announcement came after more than a year of deliberations and a change of leadership in the project.

MORE via wired.com

 

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