Bored with your feeds? Try Toluu!

In a world with more than 100 million blogs, do you find it difficult to find new and interesting things to read? How do you sift through all of the noise to find blogs that you might like? Would you like a simple way to find good content? Maybe Toluu will save the day for […]



Death Switch – a good idea or a very bad idea?

By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] You can just about have any need catered to these days on the internet – whether it’s takeaway pizza or giggling Japanese schoolgirls in ankle socks whispering kinky thoughts to you via webcam (so I’ve heard anyway).   Now a company called Death Switch is offering you the chance to […]

Does Gmail Suggested Contacts solve the problem?

By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]

As much as I love my Gmail, there are still a few things that annoy me about it and the main bone of contention centers around the address book. While Gmail Labs is busy giving us stupid little things like different stars to put next to our emails or “Old Snakey” games, I think they should better spend their time instead improving whats already there – starting with the address book (or contacts, whatever you prefer to call it).

But credit where credit’s due – they have already made one improvement by introducing Suggested Contacts. This begins to eliminates something which was making me curse in a half-dozen different languages (some of them made-up languages I have to admit) everytime I opened my address book.



Hire a Bigfoot hunter on eBay

By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Isn’t it nice to know that eBay takes care of all your needs?   Whatever you need to get through your day, eBay has it covered.    Wait…..is that Bigfoot driving through the neighborhood on his bike causing a disturbance?   Man… not again!   Don’t worry though!  eBay to the […]

Google’s new experiment – keyboard shortcuts

By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Despite all the great things Google has given us over the years, one of the things I have always wanted out of them is keyboard shortcuts.   I love the idea of just being able to navigate up and down the search results page with nothing more than my J, […]

TweetBeep – Twitter’s version of Google Alerts

By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] The first line of TweetBeep’s webpage sums up this service perfectly – it’s the equivalent of Google Alerts for Twitter and it’s perfect if you’re following a lot of people on the service and you’re struggling a bit to keep up with all your replies. It works the same […]

Russian blogger jailed for blogging his opinion

By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] The other day I blogged about Chinese bloggers writing backwards to escape government censors and about Iranian bloggers facing a possible death sentence if they say the wrong thing to annoy Mr “Two Loaves Short Of a Breadbasket” Ahmadinejad.    Well today I read that it’s apparently no better in […]

Chinese bloggers evade censors by writing backwards

By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] You have to hand it to Chinese bloggers – they are determined to get the truth out, no matter what.   OK, they are not facing the death sentence like their fellow counterparts in Iran but nevertheless, they still face prison for their opinions.  At the very least, their work […]