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Michael Jackson Dies at 50

The pop music icon, Michael Jackson, has died at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California. Michael was preparing for a comeback world tour where his shows sold out within minutes of tickets being available. With 13 Grammy Awards and almost 1 billion records sold, regardless of your personal opinions, he was without a doubt the most successful music entertainer of all time.

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You can read a variety of news articles and stories about him now or check out his extensive Wikipedia page as well.

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Sprints Now Network Screen Saver

Screen savers on your computer used to be more popular and important than they are now. I remember when the flying Toasters were the coolest screen savers. Then I’ve seen the Matrix falling icons screen saver and a variety of others.

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Sprint has released a new screen saver for their Now network that takes advantage of our quest for information and data. You can pull in your favorite sources of information you want to know about and see them presented on your screen when you’re not busy working. The service also pulls in data from many of the most popular social media networks as well.

My only problem is my computer is rarely sitting unused long enough for me to take advantage of a screen saver. However, I’ve now got the Sprint Now Network screen saver running.

Uncover what’s happening NOW on your computer with Sprint

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Are You a Gmail Ninja

Gmail seems to continue to be the webmail application to beat. If you’re using Gmail over the other popular webmail tools like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail/Windows Live Mail, are you using it to its fullest potential?

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You can go to the Gmail Help files and read through a variety of tips to make you a ninja of Gmail usage. The tips are divided into the four different levels.

  1. White belt
  2. Green belt
  3. Black belt
  4. Gmail master

Through each section they have pretty much covered just about any other tip I can think of for how I use it. Many of the tips involve using features that are available from the Google Labs functionality. There are a number of nice additions you can incorporate into Gmail to improve and enhance the functionality.

What tips do you have that you’d like to share? I do still wish I could sort by subject and other columns in Gmail.