Archive for December, 2004

AOL Plans to Offer Free Webmail

AOL plans to offer a free webmail service to compete directly with Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail.

DSL to Cable move

I hold my head high after moving from Bellsouth DSL to Suscom Cable. Bellsouth had served me well the first three years, but after moving to Crossgates, I have had nothing but trouble since February ‘04. I can’t believe I let it go this long, but I was willing to give Bellsouth a few chances to right some wrongs before moving on to other solutions.

After several visits from Bellsouth to my home during the past year of trying ‘this and that’, I grew tired of my DSL modem going out of sync intermittently. An acquaintance at Bellsouth Enterprise Sales suggested I trade in my dated Alcatel Speedtouch Home for one of their newer Westell modems. I figured it couldn’t hurt. That was no help. I’m just glad I didnt’ have to pay for the new modem having been with Bellsouth more than two years.

Anyway, here’s an announcement of starting anew. I’m cancelling my phone line as soon as my Vonage equipment comes in. More about that later…

Toshiba unveils 80GB ‘iPod drive’

Toshiba today paved the way for 80GB iPods when it said it will ship an 80GB 1.8in hard drive in Q3 2005 - a year after it introduced the 60GB version that can currently to be found inside the iPod Photo.

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R.I.P. Dimebag Darrell Abbott

Tis a sad day.
‘Dimebag’ Darrell Abbott killed at 38 (12.09.2004)
Report: Shooting suspect’s bizarre behavior (12.10.2004)
Former Pantera guitarist among 4 killed at club (12.10.2004)
Nightclub shooting victim remembered (12.11.2004)

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 Release Candidate 1 Available

The first Thunderbird 1.0 Release Candidate is now available for testing. 1.0RC1 includes lots of bug fixes and improvements for features like saved search folders, the RSS reader, mail migration, and message grouping. The default themes have both been updated with new improved artwork as well.
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