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Watch TV in a new way with GoogleTV

It seems that Google might again revolutionize another area of life, watching TV. The Logitech Revue will be one of the first devices to come to market with the innovative GoogleTV technology. The device connects between your TV and video source. The video source will typically be a CableTV or satellite receiver or digital video recorder. To accomplish this, the Revue has two HDMI connectors. This allows for the display of a video overlay with menus and other GoogleTV options. For example, you could be watching a football game and need to check scores of some other games. You would simply bring up Google Chrome on the Revue and go to Yahoo while still watching the game on a picture-in-picture window on the screen.

Several other content providers also signed up. Services like Netflix, Amazon, CNBC, and Pandora Radio are some of them. Users will also be available to use the Revue to access digital media locally stored like family pictures, music, and movies.

The device goes head to head with the AppleTV, with the main difference that the Revue provides seamless TV integration. Google is also working with other manufacturers like Sony to embed the software within TVs and Blu-ray players.

Detach from ISP’s e-mail addresses

A short time ago a colleague thought of switching Internet service providers (ISP). He had had the same provider for many years and therefore was using the provider assigned e-mail address. The problem, he would loose his long time e-mail address when changing providers. Addressess like @att.net, @bellsouth.net, @comcast.net, and many others are basically rented from the provider and only available to use if using the ISP. The solution is to use an independent e-mail address like the ones provided by Google’s GMail, Microsoft’s Live, Yahoo, and others. These addresses are usually free and allow the use of an e-mail client like Outlook, Apple Mail, or Entourage. It will not matter if changing the ISP in the future or move to a different geographic location, you can keep the same e-mail address. Many ISP’s allow for the forwarding of their e-mail address to an alternate one. In other words, you could forward all e-mails from @comcast.net to your new @gmail.com account during a transition period. The old ISP e-mail address will not be needed after a few months of using your new e-mail address

Better yet, you could register your own domain name. Domain names are relatively inexpensive with many providers offering custom domains and e-mail hosting for a few dollars a month. Providers like Network Solutions, Register.com, and GoDaddy are some good ones.

Filtering spam and viruses

The amount of e-mail spam traffic worldwide has been increasing exponentially every year. There are number of tools to filter some of this unwanted e-mail traffic. The tools are mainly split between protection at the actual mail server and protection at the computer level. Several companies like Symantec, TrendMicro, and others provide protection at the computer level. Other services like Postini and Brightmail filter mail before it even gets to the mail server. Postini was acquired by Google some time ago and Brightmail by Symantec. Protection is very affordable starting at about $1 per mailbox per month for basic protection on Postini.

The best protection is achieved by a dual approach. That is, using a service that filters mail before it gets to the server and a secondary level at the computer. I have seen mail traffic for a domain of which over 90% of it is unwanted spam and viruses. By using services like Postini and Brightmail, all of this mail is filtered before it even gets to the domain’s mail server. This saves a considerable amount of bandwidth and other system resources.