It's easy to let our email clients go to the dump. Unless you get in the habit of doing regular cleanup you're quickly going to get backed up and overwhelmed.

So, start with something easy to get your foot in the door. =)

Gmail--Introduction and Interface

• A different intro--so pop open a Newcastle and enjoy
• Email handlers--and web based mail
• Sign up via mobile phone? Just email me and I'll send you an invite.
• Interface--the header and reading the EULA
• Orielly says privacy issues are 'bogus' (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4707)
• Don't delete--archive
• Navigation or sidebar (folders, contacts, and labels).
• The messages area

Decided for lack of a better topic to combine this weeks MPC Screencast with my blog's current series on the web browser Opera.

Picking up right where I left off, RSS aggregation.

Privacy, cookies, settings, master passwords, and browser spoofing. All topics I cover in this third installment of my tutorial series on the Opera web browser.

I decided to produce this one in swf format (flash) as well for those who do not have Quicktime. You can get it from my blog: mfarley.us

Web browsing CAN be fun! Play with Mouse Gestures, surf with Fast Forward, and use HotClicks.

In this the second segment of my series on the web browser Opera, I go into each of these topics and demonstrate them in live action.

In the next installment, we'll take a look at the RSS aggregator built into Opera.

Quickly learn the interface of the popular web browser Opera.

Opera's gone free, ad-free, no payment required, and I'm excited. As of today there's been 1.6 million downloads since it's press release that it's now a free browser.

In this, Part 1, we'll go into the interface and give you a glimpse into what makes Opera. For a complete list of the series go here: http://mfarley.us/?p=61. In honor of my fellow countrymen who's suffered through the nightmare of Katrina and those subjected to Rita, I thought it fitting to use for the music the true spirit of New Orleans and the south. So, playing during this tutorial is my favorite jazz musician, Louis Armstrong, playing three of my favorite songs: 'Mack the Knife', 'When it's Sleepytime Down South', and 'What did I do to be so Black and Blue'.

God be with them.

A great web tool that will calculate how much wattage you will need out of your power supply depending on all the variabled within your machine.

This is an unofficial screencast off the subject really but I thought some of you may benefit from it.

A quick 7 minute screencast showing you how to subscribe to your favorite podcasts in iTunes.

There are two methods...the first using a simple RSS feed and copy and pasting it into iTunes and the second method is subscribing to podcasts via the iTMS(iTunes Music Store). I cover both methods in this screencast.

Using the Master Password within Firefox will help make your passwords much more secure.

Being diligent you of course want to make sure you don't use the same password from site to site. You want to mix it up. The problem there is I can never really remember which password I used with which site. So, of course you can use the built-in 'saved passwords' in Firefox--but they aren't encrypted by default. Check this screencast out and see how to set your Master Password for safer browsing.