I’ve been using Google Analytics for a little while now to track my blog’s vital statistics, and it’s a pretty well-rounded package, not that I have anything to compare it to. But to sign up for it, you had to submit your appli­cation and then wait for them to let you in, presumably because they were […]

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A little while back I realized that it might be worth­while to direct all my blog-related email through an @neilmcintyre.ca address, and leave my regular Gmail for personal corre­spon­dence. I set up neil@neilmcintyre.ca and began using it for blog business. But I’ve never liked using stand­alone email clients like Thunderbird or Outlook. I prefer web-based […]

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Last week Google released an update for their Spread­sheet web app, and it shows they’re continuing to improve the product. This is a good thing, as I previ­ously wasn’t too impressed. Now you can right-click on cells and select basic options from a context menu such as cut, copy and paste, and insert and delete […]

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According to Om Malik, Google is rumored to be coming out with an online spread­sheet appli­cation tomorrow, but I don’t think it’s going to have much of an impact. Why? Well, in my experience at least, every­thing I do in Excel is with data that I don’t want anyone, even Google (imagine that), to have […]

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Google’s Analyst Day in February 2006 presented some Power­Point slides touching on some future plans for storage: With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it acces­sible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, […]

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