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Yahoo Empowers Users With New Mail System
Yahoo has unveiled their new web-based mail system, an overhaul 2 years in the making.
Among the new changes:
- built in instant messaging
- real-time chat, right from within Yahoo Mail, without having to run your IM application
- send text messages directly to a cell phone, and receive texts in return
- unlimited storage space (Gmail offers 2.9GB, Hotmail 5GB)
- improved search function to search your own mail by keyword
- send attachments up to 10MB in size per message
- Drag messages to new folders
- select a group of messages at once
- right-click a message for expanded options
- new tabbed interface
- a message preview pane (just like Microsoft Outlook)
Overall it is a vast improvement, and almost immediately vaults Yahoo to the top of the web-based email marketplace. You can sign up for a free Yahoo Mail account here.
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World’s Oldest Blogger
Grandmother of “umpteen grandkids” Olive Riley is being called the World’s Oldest Blogger. At 107, I’m inclined to accept this claim as truth.
Born in Australia in 1899 (while it was still a British colony), Olive apparently has endless quantities of quaint and interesting stories, having lived through two world wars as well as the Great Depression.
Olive doesn’t know much about computers–a couple of younger friends transcribe her stories for the digital world, and she calls her blog a “blob”–but her fans number in the thousands. She says she gets quite a kick out of the comments and responses people leave for her, and that she has made several new friends through the blogging experience.
Says Olive:
“It’s a bit of fun, although I do get a bit tired sometimes.”
You can watch a YouTube video of Olive right here.
Or you can go directly to her blog, The Life of Riley, and read her stories by clicking here.
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‘Back Off the Hammer’ and Check Out th...
The Trucker’s Report is a one-stop source for any and all information related to truckers. Built with the average non-trucker in mind, the site offers all sorts of interesting stuff:
- Trucker Lingo: Learn the secret language of the CB Radio
- Trucker FAQ: Answers to such questions as “Why do truckers ride beside each other all the time?”
- Trucker Poetry
Everything you ever wanted to know about trucking, and more.
Catch you on the flip flop.
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Just For Fun
We here at Keystone believe very strongly in the power of fun. It has a lot of power, to distract you from what you should really be working on. Here are some great distractions from your friends at the Keystone Blog:
- 25 Strangest Animals in the World
- “World’s Largest Spiderweb” is 200 yards long. Yikes!
- International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2007 is approaching fast. What arrrrr ye planning to do to celebrate?
- The Quick Glance 2 is a “mouse replacement device” that allows you to “click” things on your computer screen by merely looking at them.
And we’ll finish off with something special for all you golfers out there. This is one of the most amazing/lucky golf shots I’ve ever seen, and I hope you enjoy it:
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Keystone’s New Servers & What This Mean...
Yesterday there was a brief period (about 20 minutes) of downtime for our web servers in Atlanta. Seems there was a power outage downtown that, according to the server facility spokesman, is being attributed to the recent heat wave. The outage not only knocked out power to the facility, but also fried the activator that should have turned on their backup generators. As a result, you may have experienced a few minutes where your website was down.
First of all, we apologize. We know that your website is important to you, and it’s equally important to us. We hate it when this kind of thing happens, and work very hard to keep instances like this from occurring.
We are very pleased, therefore, to announce to you that we are moving our servers to a local facility in Nashville. Dolphini Networks, located on 10th Avenue South in downtown Nashville, is housed in a $27 million Lucent facility. From the Dolphini website:
“Dolphini has a 20,000 square foot data center and over 10,000 square foot of office space which is completely surrounded by its own firewall, fire prevention and security systems, making it completely autonomous from the rest of the building.”
We have met with these folks on a couple occasions, and have personally toured the facility. We feel that this is a much better overall solution for our web hosting needs, and that outages will be significantly more rare. More imporantly, perhaps, is that this new facility is close enough that our networking personnel, led by Mike Miller, can be in the building with their hands on the actual server within minutes of any problem that might arise.
Our top priority has been to find the right solution, not just the first solution we stumbled across, and we are confident that Dolphini is the answer we’ve been searching for. We will be installing the new servers in the next couple weeks, and there won’t be any downtime related to the switch. We look forward to continuing to offer you the best service possible.
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