I originally thought Google was increasing their email service Gmail's storage to 2GB as this is what I had read on the Gmail site. However it seems that the counter that is currently incrementing (see my previous post) has not stopped at 2GB. Perhaps this is an error or perhaps Gmail have decided to increase their storage further.

Currently Gmail is the best Email provodier there is, it is infact so good that it has taken over my domains email account that had 20GB of storage simply because of such a great Web Mail interface and the POP3 features.

Gmail have recently added WYSIWYG formatting and a nice toolbar to select the standard bold, italic, text colour etc options. As well as this they also have a faster improved spell checker that nicely highlights misspelt words.

If only Google could provide an Audioscrobbler service!

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Yesterday I got my hands on some Nitro fuel and managed to get my R/C Car running.

I must admit it was not without problems. It took me two hours to start due to a flooded engine and the fact that the engine was really stiff being so new. It took me a while to work out how to clear a flooded engine. The useless instructions told me to remove the glow plug and pull the cord 20 to 30 times. Well removing the glow plug was obvious and so was pulling the cord but what they didn't tell you is that you have to turn it upside down. Well at least that's what I ended up doing. After that it was a lot easier to get it going. In fact once I had started it a few times starting it again was easy. It's like you get a feel for starting the engine somehow.

Anyway this car is fun . It really has some decent power, I use it in a car park opposite my house. It's around a 150ft by 300ft space and it's covered in loose gravel so there were spins a plenty. I admit I found breaking it in rather hard to do when it was so tempting not too. Beings as the manual said that the engine didn't need breaking in I didn't spend too much time breaking it in.

I never managed to put the body on the car, I was having a problem with the idling speed so it would cut out if you left it still too long resulting in frequent restarts. I never managed to take a picture of it either but there's a good reason for that. I was using my rechargeable camera batteries (4xAA) in my car. I have brought some more batteries now however and so will take a picture of it today if I use it again today.

Just got to clean the air filter and the heat sink and tune the engine as the mixture is too rich at the moment. These Nitro R/C Cars are great fun and I recommend them to any big kid.

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Gmail, Google's free web/pop based mail service are in the process of giving everyone an extra gigabyte of space to celebrate Gmail's first birthday. Gmail has an interesting way of showing they are giving users more space. If you visit the front page you can see a counter incrementing the amount of megabytes until it reaches two gigabytes. If you login to a Gmail account at the bottom of the screen where it normally reads "You are using x% of your 1000MB" the x corresponds with the amount on the front page and will change if you refresh your browser. Google even have plans to further increase Gmails storage space!

That's a very nice touch, I just hope it moves slowly enough for everyone who uses Gmail to be able to appreciate this

Gmail and the Google empire just keep getting better and better!

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OK so not much happened yesterday, just a normal day at work except... my R/C car was delivered

It was quite a surprise to come home and see it as it had only been dispatched on the 29th. I ripped open the box to take a look at the car. It's some sort of Nissan car though don't ask me which. It's rather ugly but in my opinion all rally cars are. I prefer more style, something along the lines of a 1930's Caddilac Fleetwood.

After unboxing the car I took a good look at it's guts. I'm not into mechanics in the slightest though the way this car works I find very interesting, because of it's simplicity it's very easy to understand the entire working of the car with just a little examination.

The car is a Smart Tech "Winner", I have never heard of Smart Tech but then again the only two maufactures of R/C cars I had heard of are Traxxus and Kyosho.

I was considering putting a few pics up but in the end I decided to wait till there's better light (it was rather dark) and until I get it running. Plus loads of picture of the car (only with a Mercedes shell instead of my Nissan one) can be seen HERE

Something odd about this RTR car is the fact that it says the engine has already been run in. I'm a little skeptical about this and so will run it in anyway as it can't hurt.

At the moment all I have done with the car is tested the radio gear though I hope to get it up and running this weekend. Of course that all depends on the availablilty of Nitro Fuel. I haven't checked to see where I can get the from yet .

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I have never seen this done before but it looks really cool . I'd give this a go myself only I don't have the right monitor for it really.

People take photos of whatever is behind their LCD screen and then stick it on the LCD screen giving the effect that the screen is transparent.

To see what it looks like take a look HERE.

Who ever thought of that little gem was a genius

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