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There are a ton of great applications out there on the Internet, and many of them have ostensibly the same purpose. Whether they’re social networks, microblogging applications, or email clients, the number of applications far outstrips the number of types of application.
This is not at all unique to the Internet, and is an incredibly positive thing. It fosters competition, the survival of the fittest, and a constant bettering of the product. There’s a push back on this innovation, though, created by people’s resistance to changing their routines.
I may or may not be coining a term here, but I call it “appnertia.”
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Let me share my own story by way of example: I went away for a few days, and my friend’s computer was broken. He needed to use my computer while I was gone, so I gave him my Windows password.
When I got back, I wanted to change my password (he has a habit of leaving some, ahem, not nice material on my computer when I walk away from it). So I fired up the control panel, and attempted to change my password to the word "branches." My Windows password is usually the first word that comes into my head when I sit down to change it, so "branches" was the winner.
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Over the last few weeks, there’ve been a number of cool new changes here at The 2.0 Life. In an effort to share them with you and viciously promote the cool new features of the blog, I want to also show you a few cool new things for your own blog, should you have one.
Here are three small, but cool, changes you can make to your own blog to make it even better.
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I use Gmail constantly. I have something like 11 email addresses, all of which feed into Gmail. Gmail manages my tasks, my email, my calendar, etc. etc.
I suspect I’m not the only one who has what I like to call "Gmailophilia." Because of that, I’ll share a few tips that make using, navigating and understanding Gmail a bit easier.
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