December 27th, 2008
Gmail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual file system around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
Gmail Drive creates a virtual file system on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. Gmail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag and drop files to.
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December 10th, 2008
Every one is looking for some centralized and password protected backup for mobile contacts / sms and other data. Suppose you lost your mobile and you want to restore all you contacts and sms of lost mobile? The options until now were limited!
Yes it is possible now. There are many applications available on internet which will help user to backup and store mobile contacts, sms in an online repository. Mobile will be synchronized with this online account so taking backup of mobile data and restoring it will be very simple. Even exporting all contacts to mobile compatible format is easy(.VCF for Nokia phones). In case mobile is lost then we can link this online repository with new mobile and restore all contacts to new mobile. You can even import Google calendar events to mobile…
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December 5th, 2008
Now thats a very innovative way to use the barf bag!
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November 10th, 2008
A common trouble with most iPod / iPhone users is the problem syncing their data with multiple systems. iTunes is nasty, and you can easily end up loosing all your data. Here I a useful video with instructions on getting rid of this problem!
Via iPhoneHelp
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October 28th, 2008
Wordpress is by far the most popular blogging platform on the Internet, though we at OG realized this a little late. Here is a great WP plugin that allows webmasters to manage the comments from their desktop itself.
Most WP admin’s use a manual approval system for Blog Comments to check spam. But this can really get hectic if you get dozens of comments daily. This is where “Moderator” comes handy. It lets you approve/deny your WP comments from your desktop. Moderator supports the latest version of WP and will also support the upcoming WP 2.7!
Download Moderator (Via Think Techno)
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October 28th, 2008
Do u know that a time delay can be introduced while embedding youtube videos. Its so simple. Just add the bolded parameters into your code. A sample snippet is shown below. The same feature can be adopted for Google videos also. But recently some bloggers complain that this hack isn’t working… Also when this feature is used, the purpose of linking the URLs to Youtube won’t work.
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XXfW_B2pdPU&hl=en&fs=1&start=15“></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XXfW_B2pdPU&hl=en&fs=1&start=15” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
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October 7th, 2008
How many times have you ended up sending hate mails to clients, your boss, ex-gf when drunk? Well if such a situation is true for you, here is a kewl new Gmail Labs addon that checks you before it lets your send that email!
Amit explains further at Labnol
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July 8th, 2008
It’s been four years since I am using GMail, and still I love it as a brand new toy. No doubt, the service from Google means GMail scores amazingly on search. Even they say “Search, don’t sort” but searching and filter based sorting is what makes it competition killer. Even power users are not fully aware of all the search operators. Here are some tips I use to get most out of my emailing.
Searching with Boolean in Google Mail
- OR : capitalization matters, ‘OR’ term is used to specify to search for either of terms separated by the ‘OR’ word. Like for example I submit search as ‘Coffee OR Tea’ then I would get all the mails which contains word Coffee or Tea (Or both). We can use | as a replacement or even placed ‘OR’ terms in curly brackets ‘{}’ and the result would be same (though not documented) that means ‘Tea OR Coffee’, Tea | Coffee’ and ‘{Tea Coffee}’ will produce the same effect
- AND: is the default behavior for GMail, so wouldn’t necessary to put it search (but sometimes necessary to construct complex searches) again just putting SPACE yields the same result. For example, Putting “Mango AND Apple” (or “Mango Apple” or “Mango+Apple”) will search for mails, containing both Mango and Apple
- NOT: Ever need to exclude certain terms from results? Then ‘NOT’ is useful. It searches only mails in which given term is ‘NOT’ present. Example ‘NOT’ chat would search all the mails which does Not contain the word chat. We can use – (hyphen) for this or even ! (exclamation symbol, but again not documented)
e.g. ‘NOT party’, ‘-Party’ and ‘!Party’ will give us same results.
So we can combine these Boolean operators and play search, like (Mango AND Orange NOT Banana) OR Apple will give us results in which either word Apple is found OR both Mango and Orange is found BUT not Banana
For further searching GMail also provided with lots of keywords, and
syntax for using them is <Keyword>:<Search Term> (Remember: No space in between)
These keywords are
- FROM: is used to search sender. Like if I put ‘from:abc@xyz.com’ then gmail will search all the mails which are form abc@xyz.com
- TO: is used to search based on recipient of the mail. Example searching ‘TO:dumbo@gmail.com’ will give the mails which are sent to Dumbo J. Like wise GMail also have ‘CC’ and ‘BCC’ keywords for searching CC and BCC fields respectively. Use them in the same way for CC and BCC - ‘CC:xyz@xyz.com’ & ‘BCC:xyz@xyz.com’
- SUBJECT: will only search given terms in subject field in mail. Like searching ‘Subject:Quotation’ will search all mails in which subject contains the word quotation.
- IN: for restraining our search into specific folders, IN operator is used, like ‘IN:sent’ will search only sent mails, likewise ‘IN:inbox’, ‘IN:anywhere’ (when you want to search all the mails, including trash and spam which is excluded by default.
- IS: is word is used along with certain keywords to search mails, like ‘IS:READ’, ‘IS:STARRED’, ‘IS:SPAM’ etc
- LABEL: as you must have created many labels for filtering mails, you can use this operator for searching only specific labels, like ‘LABEL:forwards’ will search only mails which have forwards as label
- ‘HAS:ATTACHMENT’ is simple keyword to see if mail has attachment
- FILENAME: will search for mail with specified filename or extension as a attachment, like querying for ‘filename:ZIP’ will give all mails which contains zip-file in attachment
- AFTER and BEFORE: are only available for time line search, we can construct mails which are sent/received during specified time duration. Example searching for ‘AFTER:2008/06/30 BEFORE:2008/07/07′ will give all mails which are sent received on first week of this July
So these are all major search Booleans and keyword using which we can construct complex searches and yes all search can be saved as filter 
- Backup: setting certain words in subject and sending to own mail with good filter and our online backup drive is ready. Like I mail myself with subject: Storage and filter like
From:me subject:StoreThis then Archive and label it as Storage
- Block Users: I blocked many domain who are offering me what I don’t need
From:(*@spam1.com|*@spam1.com|*@spam1.com) then delete it
- Spam: I get irritated to see daily added spam to spam folder, I simply have set filter to auto delete all spam
‘Is:spam’ then delete it - If you fear losing genuine mails avoid this
- Forwards: yeah I have over 3000 mails in forwards section, useful for forwarding to others
Subject:(FWD | FW) then archive and apply label forwads
- Fetching mails from multiple ID is easy with GMail, I have 3-4 mail IDs and I fetch them using POP fetcher and classify them accordingly. You can use built in forwarding to fetch this but it might get problem sometimes if you are placed in BCC from that ID as GMail doesn’t support filtering based on mail headers yet.
- Media Center: you can make labels like MP3/ EBooks and movies based on criteria such as attachment type
Filename:MP3 apply label Music
- Feeds: You can also set filters on RSS feeds and collect all the updates in one place.
Also read:
Hidden Gmail features help avoid spam
Article Written by Sandeep, recovered on 16th July 9.01 after dataloss.
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June 20th, 2008
Yes the rainy season is here, and here I hear these words every now and then - "Annkur, I got wet in the rain …My cellphone is dead". Well people do all kinds of crazy things with their gadgets, while some fail to protect it from the rains, others end up spilling some or the other fluid over it. So in case you are one of those who went swimming with your cellphone, or enjoyed the rain dance while speaking on your mobile, or forgot to remove your iPod shuffle (Mp3 player) from your jeans before a wash or whtever, then here are teh options you are left with:
The very first thing to do as soon as your dream gadget gets wet is to REMOVE THE BATTERY (in case it has a removable one). And honestly this is no secret and most people do it. But the biggest and let me mention the BIGGEST mistake people make is to put that battery back on to check if the device is running. This includes OGz own Edward. In case your device has even a few drops of water reaching its main board putting the battery in would blow up (short circuit) more than a few circuits inside. So remember ONCE YOU TAKE OUT THE BATTERY OF A DEVICE WHICH GOT WET, DO NOT PUT IT BACK ON TILL YOU ARE SURE THAT THE DEVICE IS FREE OF MOISTURE / WATER. {In case your device doesn’t have a removable battery at least switch it OFF} - And don’t be stupid trying to charge that device.
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Swimming Rice method: A very popular and effective method of drying up your drenched mobile / gadget is to soak it in RICE. (Off course as mentioned above, remove the battery). So a bowl of dry rice grains would help you recover your wet mobile / mp3 / ipod (dry all the moisture). Although I didn’t believe it at first, I tried it with a friends i-Mate Jamin and he has been using the device happily since weeks (after a 24hours dip in a Rice Bowl). Try it out, and give me your feedback on this by posting a comment below. |
The traditional hair dryer treatment to the device is also a good option. Works in case of little moisture or water in the device. For mobiles open the panel and use it. (Keep the hot blower away from touchscreen / LCD).
Off course don’t expect your some magical rice and drying to always fix up your device, you might (should) need to visit a professional service center. But remember ‘Do NOT put the Battery in’ and ‘don’t try to charge’!!
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June 9th, 2008
Though a dropout from ASCL, I sure remember a few tricks I learnt out there. So here is a very useful Mozilla FireFox Add-on "KeyScrambler Personal", to protect you from those Key-loggers. "KeyScrambler Personal encrypts your keystrokes at the kernel driver level to protect your information from keyloggers".
KeyScrambler encrypts your keystrokes at the keyboard driver level, thus protecting your entered data from Keyloggers. This data is then decrypted only when it reaches the browser. Thus you see exactly what you have typed but you give the keyloggers a skip.
Download this amazing extension to FireFox here (100% Free)
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April 28th, 2008
Ever wondered how to tackle the Virus that your USB Flash drive catches as soon as you use it on any public computer? Viruses spreading on Pendrives are on a rise. At times they are really irritating and can cause severe damage to your system. Many pen drives have this autorun.inf file. This is created by a virus which corrupts all executable files in USB drive.
Its unfair to disable auto run feature in the windows registry, because many windows user love autorun feature in CDs & DVDs. But It is now possible to enable autorun for CDs & DVDs and disable autorun for USB to protect your windows from this Pendrive virus.
Net Studio’s USB Firewall software will help you to accomplish this task. USB Firewall is a small software which protects your USB from malicious programs which will be launched because of autorun.inf file in the USB. The program runs in the background and pops up when a pen drive containing the autorun file is inserted and requests your action to be performed.
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Generally in a USB there shouldn’t be any autorun file, but as soon as the USB drive is used on a infected PC the autorun virus gets installed.
Here is how the software works. When the thumb drive is inserted the software detects the autorun file and gives warning in a small window. You can either click on “SHOW AUTORUN.INF "or Click “DELETE ". When the former is clicked, the software shows the script inside the autorun file, and if you feel that autorun file whose script is shown will be essential, then you can leave it, or you can click “DELETE ", and the autorun file will be deleted. (As a thumb rule, basic users should delete the file, while advanced users can decide themselves after seeing the content)
This is a perfect tool to remove autorun files from pen drive, not worth for removing autorun files infected in hard drives.
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Via ThinkTechno >> Download the USB Firewall
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April 26th, 2008
Many of us have multiple GMail id’s. Its really hard to login one id, check mails, then logging out, again logging in with another id, checking mails, logging out … going on for all our GMail ids. So here is a solution for saving time for the above process…
Firefox the best browser has add on feature. Simply installing an Add-on to FireFox you will be able to use many functions which a normal browser won’t fit in.
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Gmail Manager is the FirFox Add-on that does the trick. It lets you make multiple GMail logins from your Firefox, enabling you to access all your Gmails in a single click.
Gmail Manager displays all your ids along with the number of new mails. Initially you have to type in all your ids & passwords & forget the rest. Every time when you receive mail , the add on updates automatically & intimates you with the new mail snippet notification like the one in GMail. This add on is user friendly & can be customized easily.
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April 13th, 2008
Google certainly makes products for the masses. So incase you are missing ultra-fast broadband while surfing on Orkut here is a cool feature that lets you run a Low-Bandwidth version of Orkut, which will load faster on slower connections!
The low bandwidth version cuts down on photography of members in scrapbook (next to individual scraps) and photos of communities and friends on a profile page (see screenshots downstairs). To activate the Low-Bandwidth version just visit your Orkut General Settings page and select the Low-Bandwidth version in the list!
Low Bandwidth version of an Orkut Scrapbook
The Friends and Communities column on a users profile page
Via Killer Tech Tips
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March 22nd, 2008
Here are some cool Keyboard shortcut combinations for Windows users. So go ahead take the shortcut and save some time!
Keyboard Shortcuts Using the Windows Key:
- WinKey (Display or hide the Start menu)
- WinKey + Break (Display the System Properties dialog box)
- WinKey +D (Display the desktop)
- WinKey +M (Minimize all of the windows)
- WinKey +SHIFT+M (Restore the minimized windows)
- WinKey +E (Open My Computer)
- WinKey +F (Search for a file or a folder)
- Ctrl+ WinKey +F (Search for computers)
- WinKey +F1 (Display Windows Help)
- WinKey + L (Lock the keyboard)
- WinKey +R (Open the Run dialog box)
- WinKey +U (Open Utility Manager)
Shortcuts for Windows Explorer
- END (Display bottom of the active window)
- HOME (Display the top of the active window)
- NUMLOCK+Asterisk sign (*) (Display all of the subfolders that are under the folder selected)
- NUMLOCK+Plus sign (+) (Display the contents of the selected folder)
- NUMLOCK+Minus sign (-) (Collapse the selected folder)
- LEFT ARROW (Collapse the current selection if it is expanded, or select the parent folder)
- RIGHT ARROW (Display the current selection if it is collapsed, or select the first subfolder)
The Classics:
- Alt + Tab: Switch between windows
- Tab: To jump links/fields in a webpage || Use Shift+TAB to reverse
- In Firefox: Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs, Use Ctrl+Shift+Tab to reverse!
- F5: Refresh / Reload the page or desktop
- Esc: Cancel the task, Stop loading webpage
- F2: Rename the selected file / folder
- CTRL+C (Copy - File or text)
- CTRL+X (Cut - File or text)
- CTRL+V (Paste - File or text)
- CTRL+Z (Undo - File or text)
Got more? Feel free to list down in comments below!
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March 13th, 2008
2 Hidden ways to get more from your Gmail
Now who hasn’t faced spam? It’s become a part of our lives dealing with Spam amongst genuine mails. Over the past few years I have heard various ideas as to how to deal with spam. Some suggested having multiple ids, say one for office one for personal use. Others suggest me to keep a separate id to giveaway to banks and other registrations over the internet.
However with increasing number of online registrations and user accounts, say for me I have 2x Netbanking, 1x Facebook, 1x ISP Home, 1x ISP Office, 1x Digg, 1x StumbleUpon, 1x Cellular service, 1x eBay … the list is endless! So however my problem is that I now have over 18 email ids and it’s a mess practicing this method.
So how about a single email id that lets you change itself every time you give it to someone? Oh yes its here in your very own Gmail!
Gmail has 2 unique (and hidden) features that lets you deal with this situation.
- Put any amount of dots (.) / ‘full stops’ between your email id, the mail will still get forwarded to the same account! For example: johnnycry@gmail.com is the same as johnny.cry@gmail.com / j.o.h.n.n.ycry@gmail.com or johnnycr.y@gmail.com.
- Add any suffix to your user id using a plus sign (+), and the mail will still land at the same email id. For example: johnnycry@gmail.com is the same as johnnycry+xyz@gmail.com / johnnycry+bank@gmail.com or johnnycry+isp@gmail.com
Now that’s really cool, isn’t it? But how do I use it? Well as we mentioned above it’s a smart idea to give a different email id while registering on any website or a formality registration with your ISP or Cellular service provider. So if you feel there might be some really important mails coming from your Bank you can give them your id as johnnycry+bank@gmail.com and
create a filter in Gmail to Star any message coming to this id. On the other hand you can also use this when you register for a service and think they might share your information. Later if you start to receive too much Spam on a particular combination, a Filter to skip/delete any message coming to that id can be created!
And if you really cracked your brains thinking, if we can use both these variants together? as in johnnycry@gmail.com = johnny.cry+both@gmail.com, well actually you can! Cheers!
Update: Another query just clicked me, What if I already registered on Gmail with a dot (.) between two words. Eg: Johnny.cry@gmail.com ? Well Johnnycry@gmail.com also belongs to you, so it won’t matter where you put that dot (.)!!
Update2: OG user Sandeep just tipped me with the info that jhonnycry@googlemail.com is the same as johnnycry@gmail.com !!
Your comments with more such ideas are welcome below!
I am sure you must have tried these tricks on your Gmail account already, but Incase you really found my way of explaining it too complicated, head on to the gmailblog for the official word on it!
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