Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon: ... It's not even close to relevant.

Fri, 01 Apr 2005

GMail ups Storage
I've been loath to type about the GMail changes made today just in case they were another April Fools-day 'joke' (I hate April 1st!) but it does seem they are serious in both raising the storage per person to 2GB per person. This morning, UK time, I was discussing the gradual rise in available storage with a friend and neither of us knew what was going on. The counter on my logged in gmail session just keep increasing for no apparent reason, you have to admit that turning a very basic upgrade in to a puzzling conversation topic is a neat way to get some free PR; oh look, it worked! :)

What I'm less keen on is the addition of the HTML email options. Still I can't have everything my way (apparently).

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Posted: 2005/04/01 21:46 | /tools/online | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date

whois.sc -- IE Addressbar Search
While it's often handy to be able to look up the ownership details of a domain name a lot of the online services have implemented little graphical images which you need to read and then type into a text box before you can actually get the results back. I recently found a new one, Whois Source that allows you to specify the domain in the URL. This makes the service both simple to use from the browser and easy to integrate in to third party programs.

Below is a registry entry that will add the whois keyword to the IE address bar. You can either select the text below, save it locally with a '.reg' extension and then double click or just save the whois_sc.reg file. Once you've got the extension installed, type 'whois www.google.com' in the address bar and you'll be whisked off to the whois.sc information for that site.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\whois]

@="http://www.whois.sc/%s"

Warning: This changes your registry which is never fully safe. You use this at your own risk.

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Posted: 2005/04/01 11:50 | /tools/gui | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date

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