Recently I have had the occassion to create a number of GoogleGroups for the purpose of planning events and projects. I have been a GMail user from the very time GMail burst upon the scene, so using GoogleGroups for such collaborative activities was only natural.

However, not all of my ‘network’ of contacts are on GMail. Some still use Hotmail/Yahoo as their email client of choice. This caused the confusion and hesitancy due to the question most often raised by such contacts:

Do I have to create another email account just to participate in this group? If so, I’d rather not!

That is not so. Google have, since quite some time, added a feature where a current Non-Gmail/Google account can be used to access and use various Google Services. It just needs an initial, short and easy, set-up to associate the Non-Gmail/Google account with Google.

The next question was:

How do I do that?

Which led me to create a brief, and hopefully easy to follow [How-To]

Here it is:

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Blog commented on: NSpeaks - A Blog about Blogging

Topic Commented on: Plugin Friday Series Started

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Hey N,

I had some issues with upgrading from WP 2.2 > 2.3.3 > 2.5. Not being that tech-savvy, had to revert to a RESTORE and then shunted the upgrade process at 2.3.3. Will wait for Fantastico to release 2.5 and go that route.

But the messy time I had between my FTp and the host file manager etc, had me thinking of exactly this sorta plugin.

Great plugin. Thanks for the review. Will be most helpful to me.

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I never really go and look at the ‘Today’s Deals’ link on Buy.com, since I can easily get swayed by some good deals on techie stuff I might not really need. I get a daily email into my inbox and I only click on something that I am really looking for or need.

However, today, while waiting for my order confirmation on my purchase of a Kingston 2gb Micro SD Card for my Motorola Q9H Global phone, I decided to do a little browsing around.

I clicked on the ‘Deal of the Day’ link and my eyes literally popped out. The ‘Deal of the Day’ is the Neuros OSD, digital media storage unit. A nice piece of equipment on reading the blurb. But at what price? Take a look for yourself at the screenshot below. I have blanked out some of the personal information but left the date and time the screenshot was taken.

A steal at the price: Buy.com Total Price: $1,086,955.99.

Yes! You read that right. A million bucks for this Neuros OSD. Take a look:

Still in a state of shock!!?? Apparently Buy.com don’t believe in selling cheap things!.

Relax. Obviously it is a major typo. I would like to get a picture of the person who entered that number when he/she is ‘found out’!

Here’s the screenshot of the real actual price. A Buy.com saving of well over $1, 000,000!

I wonder how long it will take for Buy.com to see this major typo! It will probably iron itself out come the next day when another ‘Deal of the Day’ is posted.

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In the days gone by Travel meant a lot of reference work, tickets, locations, transportation, packing, shopping, suitcases. Very tedious. Very laborious.

In the current age of the Information Super-Highway and the stations along the way, Travel and it’s arrangements can literally be done from the armchair from the laptop.

This series of posts will document some of the experiences I have gone through in arranging intercontinental travel and some ‘hacks’ I used with the tools that are out there.

Travel has become easy(ier) to arrange but a tad hectic to undertake.

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