RaSchi’s Valhalla

A giant insect of about 50 meters (i.e. about 60 yards) lenght was discovered in sout-west Germany. Besides the mere astonishing size of the insect, it is quite surprising that it hasn’t been discovered before. After all, it’s not been hiding in some dark cave, but it has been found just sitting on a farmer’s […]

A mail notification to registered Writely users announces that Writely will migrate their users to Google Accounts in the next few days. Writely was acquired by Google in March of this year and this is another step towards the integration of Writely into the Google product portfolio where it will complement Google Spreadsheets on the […]

In their Google Apps for Your Domain program Google offers their stable applications for a hosting service. What was previously available for GMail (a.k.a. GoogleMail) is now being extended to include the calendar and GoogleTalk as well. It’s not so much a surprise, it has been predicted before (and probably also in many other postings […]

Over the weekend, I have played a little with the freenigma service. I have a couple of contacts now with whom I can send and receive encrypted GoogleMails. In general, I must say I like the tool, but it still has some limitations. Well, it’s a beta… Here’s a brief summary of my impressions:
Advantages:

simple, smooth […]

If you had already signed up for freenigma, the free encryption service for GoogleMail (and other web-based freemailers such as Yahoo!Mail or Hotmail, others to come), you should have received your invitation email last night. If you haven’t signed up yet, do so now.
Unfortunately, GoogleMail seems to have a problem currently, so I can’t really […]