Linked – Google kills Gmail joke on April Fools’ after user backlash


Why are technology companies who promote the use of their products for business messing around with April Fool’s pranks inside those same products? That’s just stupid.


Why are technology companies who promote the use of their products for business messing around with April Fool’s pranks inside those same products? That’s just stupid.
Why Does IT Hate Facebook and Twitter. The article itself really doesn’t shed much light on why, it just throws out some numbers about the number of IT departments that block them, etc. The comments, on the other hand, are a treasure trove of why people hate their IT departments. A sampling (with my comments…
Using the new beta version (2008) of Windows Live Writer to post this. I’ve been a fan of WLW for awhile now and they really do just keep making it better. Of course, now that they’ve rolled all these Live services into one installer, trying to just get Live Writer involves a whole lot of…
I see this often, in young people just starting out, and plenty of people who’ve been around a bit longer and should know better. They look at a job posting, and find the one thing that rules them out, instead of seeing the bigger picture. Practically speaking, it’s useful for almost everyone to treat job…
“What was once a feature exclusive to Snapchat—the Story—has now been co-opted across social media platforms.” This is not a surprise. Given everything we’ve tried to teach people about the permanence of social media, and how a post made three years ago in jest could be taken out of context and used against you now,…
This, and the other feature mentioned in the article, having the app tell you when you’re approaching a railroad crossing, seem like really good ideas to me. I’ve known plenty of places over the years where turning left was a fool’s game, and found ways to route around that. You should have the option to…
I don’t know exactly how long I’ve had this problem, but it couldn’t have been going on that long. In a nutshell, the one-way sync I have setup to sync Outlook to Google calendar (I use my blackberry to schedule all appointments when I’m not at work, so that is the one calendar that has…
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