If you use Gmail for your emails and have your own domain name, you will love gmail for hosted domains, which basically means that you can view your domain name email from the gmail interface with 2 gigabytes for each account and upto 25 accounts. This is one of those type of invites that you need to apply for in google. You can apply for a beta account here. Once you are accepted to this, google will give you all the steps needed to make it work all you have to do is just change a few MX records. (more…)

Google has yet launched another of their web products, but not officially. It’s the google spreadsheets. An Ajax based spreadsheets, which isn’t available to the general public yet, but you can try out if you ask for an invitation to try it out. For now their aren’t that many features however you can open up and save as an excel file or, import CSV, XLS, and HTML formats. You can have multiple people share a particular file, and chat with them through google’s services, and they can change the file and update certain things while still communicating in the chat feature. (more…)

A couple of months ago I subscribed to the google analytics program that tracks the number of visitors your site/blog gets. But you can’t subscribe automatically they need to send you an invitation code, so I waited and waited until I got tired of waiting and decided to get another program called mint, which costs $30, and google analytics is free. And just my luck the mintute I bought mint I get an email from google saying I got the invitation code, how ironic is that?
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Ubuntu is a popular distribution of linux operating system. It has just been updated from the old version Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger), to the new 6.06 (Dapper Drake). I will give a reivew of the newer version, with many screenshots, and a tutorial of how to upgrade from the older version to the newer version of Ubuntu 6.06 or Dapper Drake.

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There are two sites out their that appraise the value of your blog, one of which is powered by technorati, which measures how much people are linked to you and how many visitors you get. The other site is from LeapFish, which measures the value of your domain, and how many search sites indexed your site like google, yahoo, msn, etc. I measured with both services. With technorati my blog is worth absolutely nothing! However with LeapFish my site is measured to be worth about $2904.  I would accept anything in between that.

If you are one of the type of people thats always looking for that killer deal to save some money, and find that one item you have been looking for, this article will point you in the right direction. I will review the most useful sites where you can find that killer deal.

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