Monthly Archives: May 2004

1 Terabyte (1,000 GB) of Gmail Storage

It looks like the space limit in my Gmail email account is now 1,000 GB (one million megabytes): I’m not the only one. My guess is that this increase is in response to Yahoo’s announcement that their free email users will get 100mb space. As if it wasn’t enough already? ;) Who knows if it’ll…Continue Reading…

Yahoo Increases Mail Storage to 100MB in Response to Gmail

Yahoo announced that it plans to dramatically raise the storage limit for its free email users while also giving its premium subscribers “virtually unlimited” capacity. These upgrades were revealed by Yahoo executives at an analyst meeting last week, where the company demonstrated that it is ready to take on Google, which grabbed headlines with the…Continue Reading…

Google’s Ticker Symbol to be GGL.XX?

Google Wants Fair Stock Value But Looks For Big Bucks By MARK BOSLET April 30, 2004 9:13 p.m. Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES PALO ALTO, Calif. — Google Inc. (GGL.XX) argues it wants its stock price to reflect a “fair-market” value for the company – not runaway speculation. But the Internet search engine also seems to…Continue Reading…

Google Hack 1 – Setting Preferences

Customize the way you search Google. Google’s preferences provide a nice, easy way to set your searching preferences from this moment forward. 1.1 Language You can set your Interface Language, affecting the language in which tips and messages are displayed. Language choices range from Afrikaans to Welsh, with plenty of odd options including Bork Bork…Continue Reading…

SimilarMinds Personality Test Results

Here’s mine… Eysenck’s Test Results Extraversion (33%) moderately low which suggests you are quiet, unassertive, and aloof. Neuroticism (44%) moderately low which suggests you are relaxed, calm, secure, unemotional but possibly too unobservant of your feelings. Psychoticism (38%) moderately low which suggests you are good natured, trusting, and helpful but possibly too much of a…Continue Reading…

Gmail Report Spam Updated

Less than a couple hours ago from today right now, Google added a new button for “Report Spam”. It previously was hidden away in the “More actions…” dropdown menu. Looks like they’re stepping up the effort in the fight against spam.