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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.

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.

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Yahoo have released a new version of their homepage, being the first major change for the page since 2006. Here is a video showing the new site;

Microsoft, has suffered its first drop in revenue since it went public in 1986 as the global economic downturn savages its once indestructible sales of PC’s.

The company cited weaker personal computer and server markets and said it also took $710 million in charges.

Client revenue (ie Windows for PCs) was worst hit: revenues fell from $4.0bn to $3.4bn, and profits from $3.1bn to $2.5bn.

“While market conditions remained weak during the quarter, I was pleased with the organization’s ability to offset revenue pressures with the swift implementation of cost-savings initiatives,” said Chris Liddell, the chief financial officer for Microsoft.

Have you tried using Google Docs yet? I haven’t done much stuff on Docs at all yet so I can’t give an opinion but I can give you a few hints and tips on using it.

Google Docs Headers and Footers

• Open your document
• Click insert
• Click header or footer
• To add text you have to click on the box and type
• Alignment options are on the toolbar

Add Page Numbers

• Select file
• Click print settings
• Check the ‘Annotations: Include Page Numbers’
• Select the number position

Google Docs Shortcuts

• Ctrl-J: Full justify
• Ctrl-Shift-L: Bulleted list
• Ctrl-L: Left alignment
• Ctrl-E: Center alignment
• Ctrl-M: Insert comment
• Ctrl-Space: Remove formatting
• Ctrl-1, 2, or 3: Header style 1, 2, or 3
• F2: Edit active cell (spreadsheets)
• Ctrl-Spacebar: Select entire column (spreadsheets)
• Shift-Spacebar: Select entire row (spreadsheets)

Google Docs Wordcount

• Located in the drop down file menu

Google Docs Demonstration Video

Microsoft has ceased allowing downloads of Windows 7 Beta.

Unless you have started downloading the beta version before tuesday you cannot access it, and those who have started the download have untill thursday to finish downloading.

“We’re sorry, but downloads are no longer available,” Microsoft says when users click through from the download page.

“Special thanks to everyone who is beta testing Windows 7,” wrote Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft’s in-house Windows blogger.

Google has just upgraded their popular Google Earth to include an undersea view.  The undersea view will include maps, photographs and videos of the ocean floor from all over the world.

Here is a video demonstrating the new Google Earth Undersea;