Accessing your e-mail in a web browser is all the rage, but rage is all you’ll be feeling when your net access goes down and you don’t have a local backup of your messages. Here are some tips for backing up your inbox. It requires a bit of work to set up, but once you do, you’ll be able to enjoy the goodness of Gmail’s web interface worry-free.

This is something I’ve been meaning to do for ages but I don’t want all my thousands of messages, only some of them downloaded to the desktop. I’ve yet to work out if that is possible.

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This pack is designed to bring a Windows XP CD with SP2 integrated fully up to date with all of the latest hotfixes released by Microsoft since SP2’s release. It accomplishes this task via direct integration, where files on the CD are directly overwritten by the updated files.

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This afternoon, just as my working day was finally starting to kick in (I’m a late starter), Google crashed. Thinking it might be a browser issue (I had installed a Google-related Firefox extension last night), I checked on Opera and Safari. Nothing. Zilch. Google was toast.

This had happened briefly once before, a couple of weeks back. Access to all Google domains from German locations was down but I didn’t wait long to see what was going to happen (I generally don’t have the patience). I just hit the reset switch on the router and the dynamic IP address changed and we were back into Google again instantly. So today we tried the same tack but Google was still down for close to a hour and a half. That meant no Gmail, no GTalk, no Google Reader and of course no search. I was forced to sink really low and use Yahoo. I thought I had died and gone to hell.

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