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An IMAP book and measuring power use - June 30, 2008

A book on high performance IMAP servers and how much power does dimming a laptop screen save
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/063008gearhead.html

Managing the information flood - June 30, 2008

A major market driver that is emerging is the need to intelligently reduce the flood of comments and news that any consumer of news feeds, Twitter, blogs and so on has to deal with if they aim to have any kind of grasp on what their markets and constituents are talking and thinking about.
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/063008web1.html

Giving tweets more context - June 25, 2008

Readers of this newsletter and my Gearhead column will be well aware that I am a big fan of Twitter the microblogging engine - a mechanism for posting messages up to 140 characters each. Your messages can be part of the public message stream or restricted to only your friends. As a Twitter user you can "follow" other users. This means that you see their "tweets" (the term for a Twitter message). They may or not follow you.
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/062308web2.html

WhatsUp Gold: A solid new version with minor flaws - June 25, 2008

WhatsUp Gold from Ipswitch is a highly capable and cost effective network management solution that could replace far more expensive enterprise management suites for less than the cost of their annual maintenance. A few minor flaws mar an otherwise excellent product.
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/062508gearhead.html

Your money or your domain name! - June 23, 2008

Way back in the mists of time - January this year to be exact - in my Backspin column I wrote about Network Solutions Inc. (NSI) and its practice of "front running." Given that NSI charges $34.99 for a one year registration while many other registrars charge under $10 for more or less the same service means that NSI is performing something not entirely dissimilar to highway robbery ("your money or your domain name!").
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/062308web1.html

Debt collectors mining your secrets - June 19, 2008

Gibbs gets a call from a debt collector and learns about skip tracing and the largely unregulated industry behind it.
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/061908-backspin.html

Reader feedback, erasing stress, and WhatsUp Gold - June 18, 2008

Gibbs responds to a reader's letter to the Gearhead column on Jott, Twitter, RSS feeds and Goosh; de-stresses with Stress Eraser; and starts reviewing WhatsUp Gold, a network management tool from Ipswitch.
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/061808-gearhead.html

By some fluke of nature your video has exploded - June 18, 2008

My focus today is a content creation system that produces very good video presentations with very little effort - in other words and in theory even the least media skilled user can put together a presentation that looks almost professional without breaking a sweat with Animoto.
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/061608web2.html