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Google Fiber

Mike — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:00:37 +0000

I think of Google as my search engine of choice, and I like using their other applications like Chrome, Gmail, Adsense, Adwords, Google Earth and YouTube.

I’ve never considered Google as an ISP or internet service provider. But Google is about to start testing ultra-high speed fiber optic broadband in several areas across the country.

google.com has issued a request for information from interested parties to participate in their experiment, claiming the possibility to deliver internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what is available today. They call it “think big with a gig.”

They’re talking about one gigabit per second, optical-fiber-to-the-home connections, serving anywhere from 50,000 up to 500,000 people. That’s a lot of bandwidth!

Currently that kind of territory is being served and expanded upon by the likes of AT&T and Verizon, who are locked in head-to-head competition over optical-fiber-to-the-home connections. It’s still developing, but you can find it in the larger metropolitan areas in the newer homes and apartment communities.

usatoday.com has a good article that argues both the pros and cons of such a fiber network.

There’s more info on Google Fiber on their webpage.

Google Buzz

Mike — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:32:57 +0000

CyberCoder has a great post on Google Buzz, Google’s latest attempt at social networking. This new app uses Gmail along with your existing contacts to build a social network ready to go.

Check out his post on cybercoded.net/

Google also has a Channel on YouTube so you can see the Buzz!

TwitTip

Mike — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:42:47 +0000

There’s a great post on TwitTip.com about how to keep the Twitter clutter out of your inbox using Gmail. Since joining Twitter, my inbox was swamped with hundreds of messages, so this was a welcome solution. Thanks to FreeFromBroke for the useful information. You can follow FFB on Twitter @freefrombroke

TwitTip is a great resource for Twitter users. Darren Rowse from ProBlogger Blog Tips and his guest writers have many useful tips and suggestions for making Twitter more fun and productive.

When I see Tweets about a new application, I always check it out, or favorite it for later. There’s so many amazing new applications for Twitter coming out, it’s just unreal.

Read Internet Email in Outlook & Leave Messages on Server

Mike — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:16:43 +0000

I finally got around to using Outlook2007 from my Office2007 installation. It was pretty easy to setup to download my POP3 email from Yahoo. It took a few hours to get all my mail, there were 16,000 messages in my Yahoo Inbox! It will take weeks to sort through all this mail, but that’s OK because I wanted to get back into the habit of using Outlook, since it’s on my resume. If you say you use it, then you should really use it, right?

However, AFTER downloading all that mail, it dawned on me that my online Inbox is empty, because Outlook deleted all those messages after downloading them. I forgot the POP3 email setting to Leave Messages OnThe Server, so the email client would only COPY the messages, but leave them online so I can read them from multiple computers. I like to read my Yahoo email and Gmail from work, from home, laptop at Starbucks, or where ever I am. Don’t you?

Here’s the steps I took to find and change the setting to Leave Messages On Server:

Settings to Leave POP3 Messages on the Server

Read POP3 Email messages on multiple computers (Outlook2007 Microsoft Office Online.)