You’ve all done it – go on admit it!! Return to Sleepaway Camp rip Never Surrender dvd photo credit: Jason Cartwright Poster Boy movie Thanks to Alexia I’ve found this “Google Mail Goggles!” from Google Labs! When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind? It only works late nights and weekends (by default – but you can adjust it!) and you’ll have solve some maths puzzles before you can send your mail – just don’t be too good… Continue reading »

Does yours pop-up in the bottom right of your screen (just at that annoying moment where you need to get to the thing that’s hidden by it!?!?). If so take a look at J4mie’s GMail Notifier Lamp. photo credit: greg westfall

I hate phishing, actually I hate what people are trying to achieve when they go phishing, but I do in a (geeky “that’s kind of clever”)  way quite admire their ingenuity when writing these spoof websites, that look exactly like the real thing to fool you into entering your username and password! Techie Zone recently discussed a few methods of phishing and how to spot a phishing email that is certainly worth a read if you don’t know what you are up against! We’ve seen the first of these in the last few weeks for Gmail users, trying to fool them into entering their details so people can get into their account and find their passwords. This first one took… Continue reading »

Remember the scrabble for gmail invites when gmail was released as everyone tried to grab their username and be the first to get a gmail invite before the doors closed? It’s happening again with Joost! (prounounced “juiced”), Joost is an interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer TV technology, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). I’d be interested to see it if anyone has an invite around?