by Michelle on May 18, 2009
in Tips
Recently, Google added some new options to the basic search function. You may have had these new options available for several days now, but chances are good you haven’t noticed them. Google tends to release features like these without a lot of fanfare; I’m not sure I’d have noticed it myself if I hadn’t seen an article about it on Mashable last week.
Below is a typical Google search results page. You’re probably already familiar with the options at the top of the screen (”Images,” “Video,” “Maps,” etc.). If not, let me know and I’ll post an article about those, too!
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by Michelle on May 14, 2009
in Tips
This afternoon I received an email with an attachment from a co-worker. She happens to sit across the aisle from me and, before I’d even realized I had an email to look at, she said, “That file won’t open for some reason, but it opens in Excel.”
Curious, I went to see what she was talking about. Here is an (edited) shot of the header of that email:
Email header from Outlook, showing the attachment.
Did you notice the generic-looking icon on that attachment? This is the primary clue to what’s wrong with this file: it doesn’t know what program it belongs to.
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by Nik on May 13, 2009
in Tips
This tip was suggested by reader Chem Dizzle, Esquire, after he spent a lot of time cleaning his Gmail Inbox. Gmail can hold a lot of mail. My own primary mail account on Gmail has not quite 1400 in its Inbox, and Gmail tells me I’ve used only 2% of the space they’ve made available for me. On a single page Gmail only displays 50 at a time, however. Chem spent a lot of time processing his entire Inbox 50 messages at a time because he overlooked the mechanism that allows every message in a mailbox to be selected at once. This is how it works:
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