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10 Reasons to use Gmail

I just found this reasons after clicking an adsense link by Google (No.. not from my own site, from other’s of course, or else, I will get banned from my adsense account. My revenue is more than $50.00 so I won’t do some stupidity by clicking my own adsense ads, because I will be caught, even if I use different IPs… I will still get caught and banned! ganun ka galing ang Google! amf!) Here are the reasons why you should leave your old web based e-mail:

1. Never lose a message again. Built-in Google search means you can instantly dig out any email or chat.
2. Chat immediately. Chat and email with the built-in chat without the fuss of switching between software.
3. Get less spam. Gmail blocks spam before it even gets to your inbox.
4. Mobile access. Read Gmail on your mobile phone by pointing your phone’s web browser to gmail.com/app
5. 2.8GB (and growing) free storage. Even the annual contents of a major news agency might not fill that up. So you will never need to delete another message to free up the space.
6. Un-clutter your email. Gmail organizes and automatically groups follow-up emails under the source message.
7. Autosave. Saves to ‘Drafts’ as you’re composing. Never lose a half-written email again.
8. Labels. An email can be classified under multiple Labels to keep your house in good order.
9. Integration with other products. Gmail integrates with calendar, Picasa web album, Docs & Spreadsheets and many more. You can access all these useful tools through your Gmail account.
10. Switching to Gmail in a few clicks. It is easy to import your address book from Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo! and others

So? What are you waiting for, create a Gmail Account now by Clicking HERE!

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Evolution of the Online Social Network

Like a great many other people my online social networking presence has moved in recent years from AOL to MySpace and on to Facebook. Letting go of one site or technology is sometimes difficult. You get comfortable and familiar with the process at a location and become very reluctant to let go. You also set up things like photo albums, icon pictures, favorites lists, friends lists, and many other features and so letting go feels like you wasted a lot of time and effort. But eventually the fact that things simply are better at another location is going to catch up with all of us. I first got online over a decade ago when we purchased our first home PC in late summer of 1997. At that time, AOL (America On Line) seemed like a miracle. You could interact immediately with people all over the world, and organize your friends and family together in groups that allowed you to easily interact with one another. Sharing pictures, videos, and ideas in programs from email to chatrooms to IM's (instant messages) allowed me to reconnect with family members that I had lost touch with, and develop new friendships that never would have happened without this new technology. The AOL service was the standard for years, and frankly I couldn't imagine anything coming along that could be better than their product. Still, throughout that decade of AOL, I wondered what would eventually come along to knock it off it's lofty perch or pose a serious challenge. After all that is the nature of things. Coke vs. Pepsi, Microsoft vs. Apple, every big champion eventually gets a worthy challenger to its crown. About a year ago someone turned me on to MySpace and I jumped on to see what all the fuss was about. While I found some of the features interesting it just didn't seem like any kind of service that was going to bump AOL from the top. MySpace just didn't have the interactive capabilities of AOL's chatrooms and IM's, though it did provide a better feel of being your 'home' on the web. One thing that it did have in its favor was that it was a 'free' site, providing users an internet home with free webspace. Then something major happened when AOL suddenly began to break down. For whatever reasons, probably financial, they began to dismantle their online empire. They first dropped their monthly fees, which had ranged from $9-20 per month depending on your level of service. The AOL service then shut down its chatrooms and began to remove other services, finally dropping their free webspace services in October of 2008. Anyone who had setup a web page with AOL had to find a new home, and I was severely affected. Over the years I had developed my own personal web page at www.mattveasey.com, and had used the AOL software called 'Easy Designer' to build its content. I also had become the webmaster for an Irish-American organization, the Philadelphia Emerald Society, and had their web page setup with AOL. Finally I had websites developed for my old softball team, and a fantasy baseball league in which I participated. When AOL suddenly announced they were shutting down this access, I had to move all of the information for all four sites to a new server. Thankfully someone pointed me towards the folks at Google, and I found that their capabilities were even better than AOL had been, and the moves proved far easier and quicker than I thought. With my own internet website presence now at Google, the only thing remaining with AOL was their IM service which is now free and still a solid, reliable product. In recent months I began to explore the Facebook social networking site more closely and found that the more I looked the more I liked. Facebook combines the personal 'home' site feel for individuals with the interaction of the old AOL world with 'friend' lists and groups, chat ability, picture and video sharing and many other features. So now I have my answer to that old question of what was going to knock AOL from its perch. What did the job was simply the complete developing across the web of the services that AOL had previously offered by other providers who did it better and offered these services for free. The websites at Google, the home feel of MySpace, the combination of everything at Facebook, and many other developments have ganged up to first drive AOL to drop their fees, and then eventually to the status of secondary player. For my money the Facebook service is at the top of the online social networking world at the moment, and they provide an outstanding product that is likely to remain at the top for at least a couple more years. But as we have all learned in developing technology from VCR's to DVR, from albums to CD's to digital music, from television to computers, from Pong to Guitar Hero, as from AOL to Facebook something new will come along eventually that will cause us all to pick up our web presence and move on to greener pastures. None of us can possibly imagine where the future will place us a decade from now in our online lives.

All That Junk

You know, we can't always write and talk about the big things like religion, politics and culture. Sometimes you just have to get something that is relatively small and insignificant out on to the table and off your chest. I was going through my mail today. Perhaps you see where this is going. Is it not incredible the amount of junk mail we receive at our homes? Junk mail alone probably keeps tens of thousands of U.S. Postal employees in their jobs. Unless there is something of obvious interest or importance, during the week I will let most of our mail pile up and then go through it on Saturday mornings. This morning's haul included items from the American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Verizon, Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, and Comcast. These were just the mailings that you could tell from the outer envelope were from particular businesses or organizations. There were a number more that were important looking, but that had no identification on the outside letting me know where they were coming from. Of course by experience in opening them in the past, the odds were that most of these would be credit card or bank loan offers. Let's open them and take a look. Capital One loan offer, American Express gold card offer, BJ's member value program, Mealey's mattress 'overstock blitz' sale, and finally a notice that my property might be involved in some class action law suit involving PGW and mercury poisoning. Nice. And this is all before today's mail delivery has even arrived. The St. Jude's mailing involved address labels. We probably receive that kind of thing 3-4 times a year. All unsolicited, of course. So what are you supposed to do with them, toss them away? Perfectly good return address labels that someone made up with your infomation on them. As for me and mine, we are keeping the labels and using them. No one told you to make them up. We did not place an order for these items. There is no legal or even moral obligation for me to send you even a small donation in return. So thanks for the free return address labels that more likely than not will end up on my Christmas cards in December. There are any number of websites and organizations out there that will help you reduce the amount of junk mail that you receive, and they work. Just 'Google' the term 'junk mail' for their information and advice. I know that it is effective, because a few years back I followed some advice and sure enough found less in my mailbox. For awhile. What happens is that as time goes along, I found that I was back on mailing lists. Almost every time that you order anything at all, or become a member of any organization, your information is back out there in mailers files. Order books from Amazon or B.Dalton online, clothing or paraphernalia from the NFL or MLB, make a charitable donation to a large organization, take a poll, sign up for a website affiliation, subscribe to a newspaper or magazine, order flowers or other gifts. Any of these activities leave you open to having your information back out there again in the solicitors hands. And there goes your mailbox, bulging again from all the junk mail. Funny thing is, I can't remember ever actually ordering anything that came in to my home as junk mail. I don't recall ever taking out a loan, or obtaining a credit card, or ordering merchandise in this way. It makes me curious as to what the overall results are for those who do the mailings. Are the costs in sending these mass mailings out to our homes really recouped by sales or donations or applications? I honestly find that hard to believe. But if not, you would expect that this practice would have died out a long time ago. And with all this talk of junk mail, I am not even including the flyers that are hand-delivered for pizza parlors, chinese food joints, sandwich shops, real estate offices, and political campaigns. It all adds up to what seems to be a mountain of wasted paper and ink. In any event, despite the claims that some will make to you, there really is no way to ultimately kill the junk mail from coming to your home. Perhaps if you got yourself a 'P.O.' box address, that would alleviate some, if you instruct the post office to deliver all of your mail there. Before ending this little rant against junk mail, an important security reminder. Much of this stuff has your personal, private information. Your name and address are included on most of it, and sometimes even more private information is included on the items. If you don't already do it as a practice, you need to begin to make 'shredding' a part of your regular routine. Any junk mail that comes into your home should be shredded. You can either shred the entire envelope and contents, or open the mail, discard the envelopes and any inserts into the trash, and then shred the applications or other items that actually show your information. Making this a regular habit will greatly reduce your risk of having your identity stolen and misused. If you are someone who saves pay stubs, financial statements, and medical records, make sure that you establish a regular pattern of shredding these items as well, perhaps once a year, or every 3-5 years or so. I thought that it might be an interesting project to get a box and just toss all the junk mail for a year into it, and then at the end of the year get that box weighed. Multiply the weight of all that junk by all the homes in the country, and the shear volume of waste would have to be staggering. But then I found out that folks have already done this. Some have even turned their voluminous junk mail piles into artistic sculptures. Talk about too much time on your hands. Oh well, here comes the mailman...

Santa Beats the Recession

So the American economy has been in a recession since late last year? Now there is a shocker to most people in the country. One thing that we can at least be thankful for this year is that gas prices have dropped by more than half in most areas since their summer peak, just in time for the winter heating season. So your retirement fund has taken a hit, you are thinking more about running up credit card debt, and you really would like to cut back a bit on your holiday spending. What can you do that will still enable you to feel more like Santa Clause than Ebeneezer Scrooge this Christmas? Plenty. The first thing that you can do is what might seem like an easy place to cut back, but in fact you should not, and perhaps you should consider expanding. That would be your Christmas card list. The fact is that Christmas cards have become extremely affordable if you just shop around. You can go lavish and spend $20 or more for a box of 18, but why do that when you can also find nice ones of twice that number for half the price? You can hand them out at work and school, and even to most of your family members and neighbors. But make sure that you mail a bunch out to those who live far away. A Christmas card is your opportunity, perhaps the only such opportunity that you will have during a year, to let people know that they matter to you. Take the time to include some short little personal message in as many of the cards as possible, including your phone number for anyone that you wouldn't mind hearing directly from (don't assume that all of your friends and family already have it.) You can reach dozens of friends and family members with this type of gift with a relatively minuscule financial outlay. It will take time for you to fill out, seal, address, stamp, and mail the cards. That is part of the season. Do it with some Christmas music playing in the background and the time will fly. For actual gifts, cut down that receiver list, and cut back the number of things for each of those receiving. Giving one nice gift to your immediate family members and your best friends does not have to strain your budget. Sit down and talk with your spouse, and come to some deal on spending for one another. Perhaps you can agree to some nice shared experience as a gift for one another, rather than a boat load of gifts. Tickets to a couple of nice events that you can agree on that might be upcoming, or some getaway weekend at a place that you both enjoy. If friends and family ask you for a gift idea, ask for movie or dinner gift certificates. These will make for great "night out" opportunities once the Holidays have passed. If you have kids, have them make a list, and let them know that Santa may not be able to give them everything on it. But then you have a specific idea of exactly where their thoughts are, and can give friends and family members specific ideas when they inevitably ask. Take advantage of sales opportunities. Weekend newspapers have been filled with tremendous deals, including coupons and special sales times. If you have Internet access, make use of 'Google', 'Overstock' and 'Amazon' and other online sources. There is no reason that you need to play Scrooge this year just because the economy is tough. Santa has beaten many a recession in the past, and you can help him do so once again this year. And in the mean time, always remember that there is so much more to the season than gifts, cards, decorations, and food. Give the gift of God's love by going to church and taking your family with you if at all possible. It's the recession-proof gift that will keep on giving.