I am really liking some of the new features offered by Gmail recently, and dragging and dropping is one of my favorites. First, Gmail unveiled the ability for users to attach documents and other files to a Gmail message simply by dragging and dropping the file from a folder to the message. Yes, that’s as
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Signing PDFs from Your iPhone
I’ve been playing around with Sign It!, a great little app for the iPhone, this past week. Sign It allows you to open PDF files from multiple locations – from your email, from a URL, from your computer, or from a drop created at Drop.io. Once you open the file, you can do a…
Flowcharts for Free
Do you need to create a diagram or flowchart but don’t have Microsoft Visio? Visio is a strong diagramming tool, but if you don’t have MS Office, or didn’t pony up for the version with Visio, you won’t have access to it. Instead, check out MeeSoft’s Diagram Designer. It’s a dead simple way to…
Track Your Congressman via RSS
A terrific new service mentioned by Sabrina and Bob last week, GovTrack.us does a couple of things. First, you’ll be able to track federal legislation, as well as just about anything happening on Capitol Hill, and you can set up an RSS feed to monitor your searches. You can also track what other people think…
If You Can’t Beat Them, Make Art with Them
Did you ever think to take the subject headlines from spam e-mail and turn them into cartoons? You haven’t? Well, somebody has, and he’s posted the cartoons for you at Spamusement.
Email that Protects You from Fraud
If you’re tired of trying to figure out which e-mails are legitimate and which are fishing scams, you might want to give the newest version of Eudora, which includes the new Scamwatch tool. It analyzes the links contained in e-mails that you receive, and warns you when the links don’t match their hostnames. A…
Another Word about PubSub
I have mentioned PubSub several times over the past year — it is a terrific way to keep up with information on the Internet, without having to constantly check resources day after day. Once you set PubSub to monitor your keyword searches for you, all you have to do is wait for the results to…
A New-Found Firefox Treasure
If you’re using the Firefox browser, you may have already used its Find tool. Although the concept itself isn’t different from the Find feature in Internet Explorer or other programs, the way it’s implemented is. Gary Price has more on Find as You Type.
Test Your Phishing IQ
Think you know how to spot a scam e-mail when it arrives in your inbox? Try the MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test II — you may be surprised at the results.
Slamming Spammers
It’s old but still good news — the state of Virginia has secured the first felony convictions for spammers — 9 years in prison! Finally, an anti-spam law that gets results. Will it act as a deterrent? Probably not, for a while.