I have been using Community build of Firefox called Moox for a while now. The developer (whom we know by Moox) is busy lately and offers his appologies for that. Well Moox, wish you good luck with your professional career and see you in action soon. I love using your version of Firefox.

Don’t know why, but my Gmail account got locked today and the reason giving was “unusual usage”!. Gmail guys, I did not do any unusual usage, infact I got very less email today compared to what I get at some other days and I did sent out very few mail as well :). I think giving your users some kind of warning would be a great idea, seeing that some of your users may be relying on Gmail way too much! So do unlock it as soon as possible. Can’t wait without my Gmail email for 24 hours.

Update:- In less than an hour my account is unlocked. Looks like Firefox might be the suspect here, as it has the tendency to keep on refreshing the Gmail page when it’s open. In my case I think I left Gmail page open for more than couple of hours or so. I shall try better next time.

ITIL is becoming more and more well known as the days are passing. I see more people talking and knowing about ITIL.

“The ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) consists of 7 sets: Service Support; Service Delivery; Planning to Implement Service Management; ICT Infrastructure Management; Applications Management; Security Management; The Business Perspective.”

Here is a good resource I found for ITIL related matters and it’s called Dr. ITIL.

Amit Agarwal taught me a new thing today that can be done using Microsoft word. It is called ‘Scrap’.

“You can create ‘scraps’ in Word, which are small blocks of text from a document. Highlight some text in an open document and drag it to the Desktop, and you will see it appear as a document scrap. You can arrange and rename your scraps on the Desktop, and simply drop them back into Word documents as you need them. The scraps can be pasted into most other applications too.”

I have to admit, that although I use Microsoft Office products a lot, perhaps I am not a very powerful user in learning tips and tricks for Office products ( I have learned few tricks lately though), tricks like this can save a lot of my time. I can ofcourse use this to create templates for my documents. Any other tip that I can use for creating templates?

MCPMag has some gotcha’s on VSS. I like VSS feature and is very handy. It definately has brought down restoration time and also just in case of non intentional deletions, it has just worked fine for me. These few little pointers are helpful too/

You can download Security Risk assessment tool from Microsoft website. This application is designed to help organizations with fewer than 1,000 employees assess weaknesses in their current IT security environment. It will help identify processes, resources, and technologies that are designed to promote good security planning and risk mitigation practices within your organization.

Here is what I found on DeviantART, a art work made out using mainly Microsoft Paint, what a great work. It’s now acting as my desktop wallpaper of the week.

May be Microsoft should have a contest for painting using Microsoft Paint?

You can make your search strings to Google Fight at Google Fight. It’s a website that will compare results between two search strings and tell us the result as to who won. Nice fun tool.

Cisco is offering free learning programs till 31st July 2005 and may charge fee to use the material after that. The free subsription includes material like VOD, full courses which are technology, certification and product based. This also includes access to Router labs. A fantastic deal! Make the most out of this deal while you can.

Charles Jade writes on Ars Technica about how Google’s Library project is challenged by publishers and authors.