It is with great fanfare — and a comic book — that Google released their new Chrome browser public beta.
Although it has been generally well received, there is some controversy surrounding Chrome. Initial concerns hinged on the End User License Agreement — or EULA — specifically, terms it contains regarding the user’s intellectual property. In addition, there are serious questions about how much information Chrome collects and what, if any, anonomizations are made to the data before Google logs it. Continue reading ‘Google Chrome: Not Evil?’
It’s been years in coming. And it costs about 188% of its original projected price. But Nick Negroponte’s “$100 Laptop” has finally arrived. To be more specific, mine arrived in the mail toady. What follows is my initial impression of the “XO” and some pictures.
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I installed today the first real, working alternative to SquirrelMail and Hoarde which I have come across. RoundCube is an open source project to develop an alternative to the “traditional” open source webmail solutions problems.
Any of you who use e-mail on your own domain, and don’t just forward it to GMail of Yahoo, know that the two webmail applications which are a de-facto standard leave much to be desired and are anything but user friendly. There are several nice solutions, but these are either expensive or require custom software (Zimbra).
As part of a school website which I am in the process of developing, I needed a webmail solution that could run on a reasonably well powered shared hosting solution and that would be simple enough to use for a group of school teachers. After a google search and some investigation, I decided to give RoundCube a whirl.
Continue reading ‘RoundCube, WebMail and the death of SquirrelMail and Hoarde’
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