I know you’re all probably not that interested but I want Google to pick up my latest client site for the ‘7th World Congress On Inflammation, Melbourne, Australia. August 20-24, 2005‘ and this is just about the quickest way I have of getting them to take notice.

Merry Christmas from all of us here at Geekrant.org. (“What, you mean there’s others apart from you Daniel??”)

What’s that, you’d like a present? Well I notice GMail is saying I now have 10 invitations to give away. So if you don’t yet have a GMail account, and you’d like to partake of one, leave a comment saying so, with your email address in the email field (it isn’t displayed publicly) and I’ll shoot one your way.

And if you’re looking for something geeky to do over the break, you could do worse than to catch up on Cam & Mick’s G’Day World podcasts.

Google’s latest toy is Google Suggest, which suggests search terms as you type. Mucho neato. Here’s the Google Blog announcement and some stuff on how it works.

So, what’s your Google Suggest number? That is, how many letters of your name do you have to type into Google Suggest before your name appears on the suggestion list, and at what position does it first appear? (Plus where in the rankings are you when you search?)

Daniel Bowen 10.2.1

Toxic Custard 6.9.1

Geekrant doesn’t show up, dammit. Obviously we need to start GoogleBombing.

host gsmtp171.google.com[64.233.171.27] said: 552
5.7.0 Illegal Attachment (in reply to end of DATA command)

So, GMail bans zips and other archive files, at least if they contain executables. Seems to work if there’s no executable inside it.

Perhaps a reasonable precaution. A bit of a pain sometimes though.

GMail now lets you check mail on your favourite email client via POP. Or will soon — it’s not rolled out for all users yet.

Configuration instructions for clients such as Outlook and your GMail account (you need a GMail logon to see them).

(via Al and Tony)

9pm: Notice how the Yahoo report reckons POP in this context stands for Point Of Presence… instead of Post Office Protocol… oops.

An Israeli net magazine alleges a major security flaw in GMail, that allows hackers to gain access to GMail accounts by “stealing” their logon cookie. Apparently Google has acknowledged the flaw. I guess that’s why it’s still in beta. (via Tracy)

Update 21:00. It’s been fixed. (Thanks Paul)

GMail is still in beta, so little changes creep in now and then. Haven’t seen this one before: a warning on what is actually an innocent message.

As it happens, the Learn More link wasn’t very helpful, just going to some stuff describing how to recognise a scam.

Just when I thought I could get away they drag me back in again.

I recently posted about Copernic Desktop Search, well a day later and Google have released ‘Puffin’ – Google Desktop Search. It too seems IE-centric in that it only index IE history, surely Google should realise a good deal of early adopters will be using Firefox?

Even though I’ve set up Copernic to search my OneNote files I guess I’ll download Google’s offering and see how it stacks up.

UPDATE

I read somewhere today that Puffin was the code name for Google Search Bar, not Google Desktop. No matter what it’s called I still can’t use it.

Continuing the ‘cool things you can do with Gmail’ theme, for Windows users, use Gmail as external drive.

The Gmail Drive Shell Extension

How to put a skin on GMail. (Via Patrick)