Just today I took a picture of a document and emailed it to someone for them to see the comments that were written on the page. It was kind of like faxing something to them, but without the fax machine.

Then this evening I hear about the Qipit website which promotes sending documents in just that way. Use your camera on your phone to take a picture of a document and then share that document using the network connectivity of your phone.
Qipit does more than just send documents. You can also just store them, actually fax them, email them or even …read more

Today is my 35th birthday. Not a really big deal, but this year I noticed something I haven’t noticed in previous years. I got A LOT of emails from places that I do business with throughout the year that wished me a Happy Birthday by giving me free stuff.

If you haven’t done it, I really recommend you lookup the business you do business with all the time and register for whatever they have. These can be restaurants, online retailers, bricks and mortar retailers, golf courses, etc. Just about anything you can think of really. Here’s a list of some …read more

I opened my Yahoo! Mail page this evening to check my email and noticed there’s a whole new version of interface. Like everyone else they’re providing the opportunity to do more "social" stuff like updating a status. The general appearance and layout has been cleaned up and sharpened a bit too.

I’m still working on some in-depth feature improvements. Texting isn’t new, unless I can get it to really work this time then that would be an improvement. The discussion about what’s new with social networking stuff included a twitter icon and YouTube, but still working on what’s involved in that …read more

I’ve been a happy customer of GoDaddy for quite sometime now. I know there are a number of people, close friends included, that will lambaste me for going with GoDaddy, but they’ve given me great service and support for an affordable price.

After mentioning a comment about hosting though recently, someone sent me a link for the 10BestHosting2009.com website.
The website provides their list of best websites based on price and services. There are some sites that provide better price than I’m paying now for sure. My problem is that it’s such a pain to switch hosting companies. I’ve got 50 plus …read more

Image: Screen capture by Jason Bean
Gmail has this setting where you can tell it to always display images from a certain recipient. That’s a really good feature because it gets annoying to always click on the "Display images below" link.
The problem is that it doesn’t matter either way. No matter how many times it appears that I click on the "Always display images…." option instead, I always have to click on it again to see the images in an email.
Where does this setting get stored? Is it a cookie? Do I lose it when I have Firefox clear private …read more

It’s been awhile now since I first started struggling with trying to figure out why Yahoo! Mail always kept forgetting who I was when I would login and tell them specifically to remember me.
Now I can say that they do remember me and I’m not sure if it was really their fault to begin with anyway. I finally cleared all my cookies and cache setting, deleted my Google Bookmark that I was using and even switched my default browser from IE7 to Firefox back and forth a couple of times. I know, I was just taking stabs in the …read more

Maybe I haven’t clicked on an image attached to an email in my Yahoo! account for quite some time, but I think this is new.
Yahoo! Mail now uses the “lightbox” functionality and feature to let you preview and see image attachments in your e-mails. In the past I think I’ve always just clicked on file name itself and downloaded the images to view them, but bad aim this morning caused me to click the image itself and I got this preview.
It’s a minor thing but I think it adds a lot to the page as for the aesthetics and …read more

One thing I’ve done from the beginning of my days on the Internet has been to take advantage of free e-mail addresses from places like Juno, Yahoo!, Hotmail and Gmail. One of the newest providers I’ve come across is GMX and I’ve been happy with them so far, even though I still don’t use them as a primary provider.
One thing I’ve never done is relied upon the e-mail addresses provided by whomever is my ISP at the time. The problem with that is if you ever change ISP’s you’ve got to let everyone know your e-mail address changed as …read more