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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GE has designed a free web-based white­board you can use without any regis­tration and can invite others to join your session via email or instant messenger. The service offers more advanced drawing tools than just scrib­bling around freestyle, too. You can create shapes, type text, create straight lines, change the background colour, and stamp various […]

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Departing Senior VP and General Counsel Timothy Stevens of Borland Software has worked a deal whereby he gets to keep the “Company-issued laptop computer, monitor, printer and docking station used by Executive prior to the Separation Date together with the related loaded software, acces­sories and power cords.” If I left my firm I wouldn’t want to […]

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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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