Archive for May, 2008

Gmail: Keeping your Inbox Clean

May 27, 2008

I use my own blog as a sort of tip-n-hints FAQ, so I just had to add this post about keeping your inbox clean. Since I currently have 344 unread emails in my Gmail inbox the following will be a big help to me, and hopefully some of you as well. The official Gmail blog’s [...]

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Gmail Search Function

May 27, 2008

If you use Gmail often enough you’ve probably already found its search function. Since I’m planning to move ALL of my email to Gmail, I found this article from the Gmail blog very useful, especially the part about advanced searching. Since I have so many emails its important to me to be able to find [...]

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Gmail Improved? How?

May 22, 2008

UPDATE: New post Gmail Slow for you? Try these tips You might have noticed, especially if you use Gmail daily that logging into Gmail is now faster. According to Gmail’s blog (and some high speed performance measuring apps). Borrowing more from Google’s blog they have looked at everything between the moment you click the sign-in [...]

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Back up your hard drive: Buying the Drive

May 14, 2008

Back in January I wrote about backing up your hard drive and just recently I got a Maxtor 500GB OneTouch 4 USB drive for for under $80 (USD) in Staples. As of today you can also order one online, but it will set you back $139.99 + applicable sales tax. I can’t speak for the [...]

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Windows ‘Bug’: Windows cannot find [website address] – Revisited

May 14, 2008

Its really great when you can go to your own blog to solve a technical issue, and today I got tired of getting error messages every day in Windows Live Mail (probably from Thunderbird as well). All I need do is click a web link when Firefox is not open and bingo:     Windows cannot [...]

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