Just noticed today that Gmail also allows you to personalise the look and feel of the main template. There is greater choice than on hotmail, but it appears that they are both offering the same thing - move on from conservative blue screen! Here is a screen shot with some of the options…

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Check out the new Economist.com screensaver. We’ve been working with the great team over at Economist.com for a while, and were set the challenge to help re-invent their previously phenomenally successful screensaver from several years back.
The 3D globe screensaver showcases 66 of the world’s major economies, drawing on the 2007 edition of The Economist’s […]

Stuart Brown’s recent interesting blog post on passwords revealed the top ten most commonly used passwords. Not revealing which, one of the passwords from the list is often a launch password we provide clients with so that they can initially remember the password when they first start using back end or extranet functionality. […]

Not literally but technically, here’s a delightful site for the technical savy art loving tourist about to hit Paris.  Google Maps continue to power the mash up arena with this art lover’s blog providing a doubly visual offering of what’s being exhibited in Paris now!
http://www.artscape.fr/map.php
All they need is a download to blackberry functionality so that […]

Most companies appreciate the complexity of back-end processes when it comes to ecommerce offerings. But how many pay as much attention when no money’s changing hands? Will you risk building a site that doesn’t connect with the rest of your organisation working behind the scenes?
If you were in the planning stages of building a […]

I found an old text book which I studied in 1990 in my first year of Accounting Information Systems and found a chapter on the pros and cons of Custom Solutions versus ‘off-the-shelf’ packages.
The advantages of Custom Solutions are unchanged and are obvious: No compromises : you get exactly […]

I am interested to see whether you have any formal training in Excel?

My guess is you are no different from me: self-taught to use most of the software that empowers our lives. I remember teaching myself Lotus 123 – that trusty old “/” command. I am still convinced […]

There - I got your attention! Don’t worry I won’t take Excel away from you! - I don’t have anything against it- it’s a powerful tool, but it’s more that I accuse its’ users of relying on it for the wrong purpose. We are forced to use Excel as a tool to […]

I used to redesign business processes before the Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP gurus were wheeled in to perform their package implementations.
The level of customisation that these ERP packages afforded multi-national businesses was revolutionary and gave them a distinct competitive advantage.
Why shouldn’t SME’s gain competitive edge using bespoke software? In the late 90’s […]