If you are a GMail user, you could see that your inbox was 1.5 GiB large yesterday. Most of you probably just thought this is an April Fool’s Day hoax. Well it was, kind of. If you check your GMail account today, you can see that now you have a whooping 2 gigabytes of space for your e-mail. If you still don’t have GMail account, you can contact me over Jabber (JLP@jabber.org) or e-mail as I have 50 GMail invitations to give away again.

By now almost everyone who uses web browser knows that Internet Explorer is full of security holes. Not to mention bad support for web standards and lack of modern features. In addition to all this it now has two more security vulnerabilities, which are both marked as high security risk. The same problems can also be found in Outlook (Express). They allow malicious hackers to remotely execute programs on victims computer. The best way to stay safe is to stop using Internet Explorer and switch to a safer and more modern browser like Mozilla Firefox or Opera.

Read more here:
‘High Risk’ Flaws Found in IE, Outlook

OpenOffice.org 2.0 (free and open source) and StarOffice 8 are soon to be released. To show you in detail some of the new features and enhancements in these new versions of these office suits, Erwin Tenhumberg decided to start a series of blog entries under the name of Just switch!. You can see the list of all articles for March on this page. Keep reading his blog to find out more.