Googlemail

It looks as though googlemail.com is a straight alias for gmail.com.

I haven't set up a googlemail.com address for my standard alias - but mail sent to it at googlemail.com turns up in my gmail.com mailbox...

Not sure if the reverse is true, but it wouldn't surprise me. Especially if what happened in Germany happens in the UK.

Browse Safely

Following on from an entry about VMware Player in my other blog - a free virtual machine player from the folk at VMware - here's an interesting application: VMware's own Browser Appliance.

The idea's simple: it's a cut down OS just for web browsing that runs in VMware player to protect the rest of your PC from malware. If you hit problems, just reinstall the image - you won't need to rebuild a PC from scratch. It's not small - the image comes in at 206MB or so, so think of it as a proof of concept.

But still, it's a pointer to part of the future of computing: compartmentalised, functional components that run in isolation, managed by a single virtual machine manager.