Many users of Google’s free e-mail service Gmail were stranded Tuesday afternoon when they logged on to find the service no longer working.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused Tuesday’s disruption, which led Gmail users to get an “Unable to reach Gmail” error message as their computers tried repeatedly to reconnect to the service. Google said it was investigating.
Complaints began appearing on Twitter around 4 p.m. EDT. In a 4:02 p.m. EDT post on its Apps Status page, Google confirmed that Gmail was suffering an outage.
Google has kept its major outages relatively rare. Gmail went down for more than two hours in February and about the same length of time in August 2008. In May, the search engine was unavailable to many users for about an hour.
If you are sick of Windows Media Player opening up the whole player every time you run a song then you can do this tweak that will set it to just open the mini player when you play a song;
Open windows media player
Click now playing > more options
Click the player tab
Make sure ’start the mini player…’ is checked
Now you have to add something in the line underneath, basically any word that will be in music files that you start (examples below)
add mp3 if all your music files are mp3’s
add the drive name if all files are kept in the one drive (eg. C:)
Personally I’m a huge fan of tabbed browsing in Firefox and now Internet Explorer, but for some reason people out there want to know how to disable them - so here you go;
Firefox
You need to install and add on from Mozilla called Tab Killer, by running this you will completely disable the ability to use tabs.
The borders on Windows Vista have been set large by default so their new graphics and design can be shown off, but if you don’t like the large borders you can adjust the size of them;
Social networking sites Twitter and Facebook suffered attacks on Thursday from a hacker who temporarily shut down both sites. They are both believed to be all OK now and up and running.
I have had a few emails regarding ReadyBoost, mainly from people trying to test out the feature but are unable to do so due to an error trying to set it up.
Basically this is an easy fix - get a new data stick!
Readyboost requires at least 256MB of available storage space on your data stick to work, and if you don’t it will not work. So get yourself a larger data stick and try out ReadyBoost, it is a good feature.
Do you need to lock down your computer in a hurry (don’t want your boss to see your game of solitaire!), then here are a couple of shortcuts you can use;
Keyboard
Simple, just use this shortcut
Win key + L
Mouse
Right click your desktop and select new > shortcut
Type the following in the first screen
rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation
Now click next
Now select a name for your shortcut (ie. SHUTDOWN)
Note: Home editions of Windows Vista do not allow remote desktop.
If you never use the remote desktop feature (or if you use another product) then you may want to disable it as it is just another wasted resource on you PC.
To disable your remote desktop follow this;
Open up you system box, either by;
Control panel > system and maintenance > system
Right click you computer icon in your start menu and click properties
In you start search box type system, it will be listed just as system
In the left column click remote settings
Now under the section called remote desktop simply uncheck ‘Don’t allow connections to this computer’, this will disable the remote desktop to your PC.
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