Author Archives: Penny
The new Google Motion
In a previous article, I wrote about 9 Gmail features to help keep your e-mail under control. Today, you can add one more to the list to make an even 10. Google just released Google Motion. This new system is … Continue reading
Is that site down?
Have you ever sent out a message to your friends asking, “Is it just me, or is such and such a site down?” If you want a quicker answer, try http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/. It’s a simple, no-frills website that does just one … Continue reading
Why “username at domain dot com” isn’t fooling the spammers
A long time ago, when the World Wide Web was in its infancy, all the web developers used a “mailto link†like username@domain.com for e-mail addresses on their websites. A reader could simply click on the link, and her favorite … Continue reading
A quick way to sign your blog comments
I’ve entered over 3,700 blog giveaways to date so a number of my posts over the next month will be related in some way to entering giveaways. To enter most of these contests, you leave a comment(s) on a blog … Continue reading
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9 Gmail features to help keep your e-mail under control
I love my Gmail accounts (yes, that’s plural). Like many areas of my life, my e-mail accounts are not perfectly organized, but the systems and bits of organization I do have in place, make things work fairly smoothly. Here are … Continue reading
Verbix.com, a great reference for foreign language verbs
I’m trying to learn Italian. One of my practice activities is to try to read things written in Italian. Since I’m at the beginning of the learning curve, I’ll recognize a few words then flip-flip-flip through the translation dictionary to … Continue reading
Welcome
I stressed about this initial post for awhile. What could I write that would be entertaining or enticing enough that it would bring people back to my blog? It finally occurred to me that it didn’t really matter that much. … Continue reading
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User control of the Blogger comment form
This post is about a bookmarklet that I use when submitting multiple comments to a blog run on the Blogger platform. It standardizes the input window. This functionality isn’t of much value unless you’re submitting several comments in succession, for … Continue reading →