I’ve been sitting on this information for a little while now, but I noticed that my first article, Gmail error 102, has been published — so now it is official! I am going to be a regular contributor to Google Tutor!

Since I am relatively new to blogging, I’m not sure how these things traditionally go, but in this case I was contacted by the Google Tutor creator to contribute.  We settled on new articles three to four times monthly on different Google topics.  You can expect the quality and usefulness on the site to be as good as on here, or better.

Needless to say, I am very excited about this new opportunity!  Hopefully you will find the site useful and will follow my posts.

See you there!

Just a quick newsworthy note, this site uses a community-based comment system called Disqus.  I’ve been really happy with it so far, and they just made it better!

According to their blog, they now have more information in their popup profile. This is the bubble of info you get when you hover over someone’s picture in the comments section here or in any other Disqus-enabled blog.

The popup profile now not only lists the Disqus user’s registered services, but also their most recent comments and their last tweet, if they are on Twitter.

You’re on AIM, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger. You have Google Talk through Gmail and you still have that old ICQ account lying around.

You think you have it covered with Trillian or Pidgin.

Perhaps you think you are a step ahead of your coworkers because you are using Meebo.

Think again.

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Anybody out there a fan of the webcomic Penny Arcade? It’s a webcomic that’s had consistently funny strips 3 times a week. It is very video game-oriented, but today’s strip is much closer to home!

I’d republish it here but it is mildly NSFW (swear words), so head on over if you have a minute.

Do you use FriendFeed, and follow a bunch of people? You might be interested in this little RSSmeme link that, once you put in you FF username, find the links published by your peeps and ranks them by popularity. Grab the RSS feed and voila, you have a quick-n-dirty feed that exposes you to new blogs that you friends think are read-worthy.

Thanks, FriendFeed Watch, for the news!

I was invited to guest-post on SheGeeks today, and I was pleased as punch to do so. You can find my full article linked below.

Have you heard of Spokeo? Most likely it has heard of you. More specifically, it knows about any occurrence of your email address or other identifying information (like your Myspace profile name) in pretty much any public forum.

Spokeo – Helpful Web App or Cyber-stalking Tool? | SheGeeks