Get the most out of your new Gmail account.

So you have a shiny new gmail account, how can it change your email experience? If you look past the 2+ gigs of storage, there is a couple options you should look at, Filters and labels. After you have imported you contact list from your other email service you can set up a filter for each contact. This way you can keep all the conversations you have had with a contact together under one label. For example: I belong to the LongLiveTechTv Yahoo Group. I receive several emails each day from this group. I also belong to the Mozilla-FireFox Yahoo Group and also receive several emails from this group. I have setup a filter for each group and when I receive an email from either group, Gmail will send the email to the right place. Then if I want to read all the emails from one of the groups I just select the label for that group. You can setup filters for specific senders, certain words in the subject line -i.e. if there is X word(s) but not X word(s) and if there is an attachment. After you tell the filter what to look for, you can test it to see if it gives you the correct response. If it does, then you can tell the filter what to do with this selected email. Such as send the email straight to archive, place a star on it, put a label on it, forward it to another email address or simply send it to the trash! Then select create filter and from now on every time an email comes to your gmail account the filter will do exactly what you told it to do with the new email, automatically. This way you can stay organized and be able to find a specific email from someone. If you apply a label to the email each email will now display that label in your inbox and there will be box to the left of your inbox with all the labels you have created. If you want to read all the emails from XYZ select the label XYZ and now your inbox will only show the emails for that specific label. Want to find that funny pic someone sent you but don't remember which email it is in? You can use Google to search your emails in your inbox or specific label. Just select the criteria for the search and you find it in a snap! If do not have an Gmail account there is several invite links on this site. Just do a little search this post.

Tricks of the Trade

Do you have a trick that just makes things easier? Are you thinking that there has to be a better way to do a task? Well, I have the website for you it is called Tricks of the Trade. This site started after Matthew Baldwin posted on his blog asking for tricks of the trade from his readers. The result turned into the website Tricks of the Trade because the response was overwhelming. The tricks you find on the site range from making fire with a coke can and a bar of chocolate to tricks for the IT department. So you are bound to find a helpful trick. You can also submit tricks to be posted if you would like to share one.

How much music could you store on a 1.6 terabyte disk?

By 2009, you will be able to find out! InPhase Technologies is working on a new way of writing data to a storage device. They have come up with a way to write data into pages that form books of data. By doing this they can put 200 gigs of data into one square inch of space! InPhase is conducting the first public demonstration of a holographic prototype at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas, April 18 through April 21.* InPhase plans to start selling a 300 gig disk in 2006 and 1.6 terabyte disk by 2009. You can find out more about InPhase Technologies here. and the press release talking about this new technology here. *from the press release found here

Is your gaming system fast enough?

Are you wanting to buy the latest NVIDIA graphics card? But you are wondering if your system is compatible? Do you have the skills to build your own gaming system but are wondering what parts you need to build the top of today's line gaming system? Do you have the top of today's line system and want to compare it to other gaming systems? Well NVIDIA will answer all these questions and more! They have put together a new site called SLIzone, after their SLI graphics cards. At SLIzone you can: * Learn what you need to know about building or buying your first SLI system * Find out about new beta drivers. * See who dominates the Futuremark® 3DMark05 TM Hall of Fame with their NVIDIA SLI-powered monster PCs * Learn how to create custom SLI game profiles to take full advantage of NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology * Get the inside scoop on contests and promotions built around SLI * And MORE!* So go test your SLI system or go see how the other half lives. *from NVIDIA email sent 14 Apr 2005

Gmail the unlimited email storage space!

If you do not already have a gmail account now is the time to get one. As of April 1, 2005 Gmail plans to add more storage to each account each day. Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more. Fonts, bullets and highlighting, oh my! Gmail now offers rich text formatting. And over 60 colors of the rainbow. Discover a land of more than just black and white.* Find out more here. If you do not already have a Gmail account, I bet you want one now! So check here, I have posted over 50 Gmail invites. Just do a little hunting and you WILL find one. *from the gmail help center