When Google nuked GREADER, it also took the extension that supports RSS feeds out of CHROME.
Now, I’m rethinking EVERYTHING I do with GOOGLE.
Argh!
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SOFTWARE: Google changes CHROME and makes me reconsider that too
Monday, March 18, 2013
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IPAD: can’t interact with contacts from gmail client
Sunday, March 17, 2013Interesting.
From the natve GMAIL client on the IPAD, I can’t figure out how to save a contact.
Argh!
AND, it apparently doesn’t support the native IOS address book.
I am really getting tired of having to maintain addresses.
Plaxo had promise but all they wanted was to spam, charge, and interfere.
Maybe I should write an X500 directory service.
LinkedIn, Facebook, and everyone else has a different agenda.
I just want one synced address book!
Argh!
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SERVICE: DNS — ISP, GOOGLE, or OPENDNS; OPENDNS for me
Monday, March 5, 2012http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/02/25/a-closer-look-at-google-public-dns/
Tech|2/25/2012 @ 5:34PM
A Closer Look at Google Public DNS
Elise Ackerman, Contributor
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What role has Google played in the DNS ecosystem? Do you see them as a competitor or a partner?
Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good. They’ve also worked with us to advance the state of the art for DNS performance, something we’ve really enjoyed working with them to make happen. It’s not so much competition as it is choice in the market. If they started defaulting Chrome to use Google DNS, I think that’s something we would take issue with, but for now, we like the idea of people using a DNS other than their ISPs, that’s a good idea for a lot of reasons.
What are some of those reasons?
I like the idea of separation of services. ISPs provide a pipe. Other vendors provide security. Other vendors provide email. When one party controls all the services, it’s a “synergy” for the company, but rarely for the consumer. With DNS in particular, there are performance and security benefits that third party DNS providers offer that ISPs aren’t incentivized to do since DNS is a cost-center for them, and a profit-center for us.
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I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important. Your ISP no longer provides you email because everyone either uses their own or has an account with Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo mail. The same way people unbundled their email from their ISP, I think they should do with their DNS. Separation of services has been a long-standing best practice in the security community, and it applies now more than ever. In that vein, I’ll reiterate my view that I think Google controlling search, the browser, and the network or DNS layer is a dangerous trifecta that the consumer will probably be best served avoiding. I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough.
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I’ve been a fan of separation of duties.
ISP EMAIL has always been a trap for their Customers. That “customer@isp.net” is the property of the ISP; not the Customer. Once you give that out to enough people you’re locked in.
Why not use a DNS service that has an incentive to be loyal to you?
Since finding OPENDNS, I have not had an DNS outages. I know that VERIZON, COMCAST, and GOOGLE have had outages.
Easy decision fmpov.
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SERVICE: GOOGLE FREE APPS misfire
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Argh, a network blip and now it’s screwed up.
My gripe is the message “contact support”.
Any idea how?
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SERVICE: GOOGLE+ slugish start
Friday, July 8, 2011GOOGLE+, Google’s version of FACEBOOK, is off to a slow start.
Somehow, not really sure how, I scored an invite.
Initial setup was trivial.
Added about forty folks whom I thought could benefit and enjoy this new “facebook”.
The big attraction to me was the ability to update, like “tweet”, to a specific subset of identities. My highschool mates versus my favorite headhunters versus my relatives.
Rumor hath it that adding someone to a circle triggered an invite.
So I loaded a dummy email (i.e., one of the many I have for various purposes) and about 12 hours later, it received an email update but no invite. So much for that myth.
It’s not very useful without participation. I could effect the same result with a big CC list.
Also, it appears that I can’t control the display name of the identity in my circle.
Also, it appears that there is a weak linkage to GMAIL’s contacts. With no “update”. I went to GMAIL’s contacts and I can’t figure out where the “name” for an identity is coming from. I loaded an email into GOOGLE+ and put in the name in the format I like. Poof, it gave it a different name that is not related to anything I have for it. Weird? And, I can’t fix it.
Finally, putting a post in the Google group for support, generates an email summary of a hundred or so messages, at semi random intervals.
Interesting?
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SERVICE: GOOGLE APPS FREE is getting “smaller”
Saturday, April 30, 2011*** begin quote ***
From: Google Apps Team <apps-noreply@google.com>
Date: April 28, 2011 6:41 PM
To: @reinke.cc
Subject: Update on changes to Google Apps
Hello,
We recently announced upcoming changes to the maximum number of users for Google Apps. We want to let you know that, as a current customer, the changes will not affect you.
As of May 10, any organization that signs up for a new account will be required to use the paid Google Apps for Business product in order to create more than 10 users. We honor our commitment to all existing customers and will allow you to add more than 10 users to your account for reinkefaceslife.com at no additional charge, based on the limit in place when you joined us.
Sincerely,
The Google Apps Team
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It would seem that anyone with a domain should register it with Google Apps to preserve future flexibility.
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