One of the only flaws with gmail is the lack of support for html signatures, or signatures that you can put images in. Now, with the help of Google Labs and some minor tweaking, you can easily accomplish this much wanted and needed feature.

Step 1: Go to Gmail Settings –> Labs and enable “Canned Responses” as well as “Inserting Images.”

Step 2: Compose a new message in Gmail and create a signature just like you would compose any other email message. ..read more

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Many people often wonder what that funny looking key is on their keyboard with a little flag on it. It’s referred to as the  “Windows Key”, or “Windows Logo Key” or “Start Key” and you can use it to perform many shortcuts to help improve your productivity.

Pressing the Windows key by itself, brings up the start menu, and from there you can navigate up and down the start menu with your keyboard arrow keys, and press enter on the program ..read more

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These were seen at the SWSWi kickoff party.  Here’s a great way to keep the lines down at the port-o’s.  There were projectors and sensors attached to the port-o-potties, so you could see how long people have been in there and who’s sitting or standing. Too much info?

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Vonage is a great service. Its relatively inexpensive, and they’ve got some great features, like Simu-Ring, email notifications, etc.,  I had always thought that in order to use the Vonage service one needed to use one of their hardware solutions, or pay extra for a “softphone” – a software based SIP phone, with an additional phone number, and monthly charge.  Wouldn’t it be great if you could fire up any SIP software based phone of your choice and still get ..read more

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If you’re like me, the greatest limiting factor on the Iphone is its inability to run more than one application at a time. In Apple’s infinite wisdom, they apparently decided that battery life and performance were more important than actual usefulness and productivity.  One of the best benefits to Jailbreaking your Iphone is the ability to run applications in the background.  So the next time you’re listening to Pandora  , and you decide you want to check movie times or ..read more

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I decided to wait a week after getting my 3GS to attempt jailbreaking it.  I wanted to be sure that I had a good feel for the device’s quirks before throwing any third-party software at it and creating more.  That being said, jailbreaking the 3GS turned out to be a pretty simple process. I did it on the mac, but it works just as well on the PC.

Grab the latest version of Itunes before you start and be sure you’re ..read more

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In a move that is sure to cause headaches amongst IT staff and Execs, Mastercard has decided to tighten the reigns further in their never ending quest to secure people’s credit card data.

By December 31, 2010 and on a going forward basis, all level 1 and 2 merchants must validate PCI DSS compliance via an annual onsite assessment conducted by a PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) certified Qualified Security Assessor (QSA).  Level 1 merchants who previously conducted onsite assessments ..read more

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Now that you’ve got your sleek little HP 2140 netbook, its time to blow away Windows XP and put something a bit snazzier on there.  I’ve toyed with OSX86 previously, and knew that most of the netbooks out there support it in one way or another, and many of them quite well. I had also read that Windows 7 played very nicely on these tiny computers, and it’s free for a few months, so why not?

Here’s how I made it ..read more

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I recently picked up a HP 2140 Mini Netbook as a present for my wife.  This little 1.6Ghz Atom powered netbook is the “business-class” edition of the popular HP Mini 1000 series netbooks.  While the 1000’s aremade primarily of black plastic, the 2140 has a beautiful brushed aluminum exterior, giving it a nice classy look.

Overall, this machine performs as you would expect from this popular class of notebooks.  The 1.6Ghz processor is fine at handling most basic tasks, as well ..read more

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In addition to all of the wonderful new features available on the new iphone os 3.0, there are over 40 security vulnerabilities that have been fixed. Some of these include this one which may pertain to Exchange admins out there:

Accepting an untrusted Exchange server certificate results in storing an exception on a per-hostname basis. On the next visit to an Exchange server contained in the exception list, its certificate is accepted with no prompt and validation. This may lead ..read more

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