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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
I love Gmail's conversation thread view. It beats all other webmails in the market IMHO. If you are using Microsoft Outlook Exchange and would like to move all your sent items automatically to your inbox, and then use Gmail's POP or IMAP to retrieve every mail as a complete backup, this is the tip for you.
I'm using Outlook 2007 in this example. If you are using earlier version, the dialog boxes and the options might be different, but all essential options should be there.
Step 1: Go to Tools -> Options -> Preferences tab. Click on Email Options
Step 2: Uncheck "Save copies of messages in Sent Mail folder" and click OK, Apply to save.
Step 3: Click on Tools -> Rules and Alerts ... and click on "New Rule...". In blank rules section, click on "Check messages after sending...". and click next.
Step 4: Check "Through specific account" and select the account to which you want to apply this rule. I use "Microsoft Exchange" for this case. Click OK and next.
Step 5: Check "Move a copy to the specified folder". In the bottom section, click on specified folder and select Inbox. click OK and click through the next few Next button, give it a name and let it run.
From now on, all the sent mail will be automatically saved in Inbox instead of the Sent Mail folder. This is especially convenient if you use Gmail to archive your emails.
Posted at 11:03 AM in IT
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
I found the increasing pop-up from my website annoying and thought the Google Adsense might have anything to do with it. Wrong! The studpid Webstats4U is doing all kinds of sneaky things on my website. I felt awful that visitors are greated with so many junks while Webstats4U only provide a super simple web statistics for you, well, what I mean is, no matter what they offer me, there is no excuse to have junk pop-ups on my own space. There, F U & Saiyonara, Webstats4U!
To visitors: you are free from random pop-ups on my site. All the junk codes from Webstats4U have removed.
Posted at 10:56 AM in IT
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Xooglers is a blog set up by ex-googler. Some of the articles are very interesting read regarding the odds and ends of building an IT system. I learned quite a bit from the blog.
Posted at 2:30 AM in IT
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Odeo finally opens up for more registration. The slick online application for listening PodCast is very good at integrating media player with browser. However, you will be locked in one page when you are listening to a PodCast. I am usually not a fan of website with frames. In this case, a seperate frame will be very beneficial for currently playing podcast without interrupting the user's browsing.
Posted at 10:45 AM in IT
Thursday, July 7, 2005
As Gmail debuted last year, web developers are mesmerized by the dynamic user interface created using XMLHTTPREQUEST. Since then, lots of websites sprung out using AJAX. However, without using AJAX, you can also achieve the dynamic interface successfully via Javascript + hidden iframe. My boss has mentioned that before to me and I thought it's not "cool" enough. Now Google Maps are using this approach. There is an interesting read: Mapping Google. Also, some articles illustrated the design of Gmail and Google Suggest. Adaptivepath has published one article about the whole shibang
Posted at 10:48 AM in IT
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
added a cute mobile icon.
Posted at 5:01 PM in IT
Friday, October 8, 2004
This is done by mobilemt, how cool is that?
Posted at 5:26 PM in IT
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
No Way! Microsoft published it's beta testing of its own search engine. After a few testing keywords, there is no way this search engine can compete with Google. First of all, way too many useless results. Unlike google returning one result for each domain, MSN search engine keep repeating the same results over and over again, which is a total waste of bandwidth. Second, try to misspell a word such as "human resrces", see what will appear on your screen. Then do a search on Google and see whether you will get a friendly prompt saying "Did you mean 'human resources'?".
I despise Microsoft for their attitude in their efforts to push through "new" product. Money is the main concern for MS. Again, they already lose the battle against other smaller companies like Google. Whenver google publish a new product, no matter how small it is, it's functional and wowed people. The recent Gmail functionality addition to webmail is what MS cannot provide or is not willing to provide for free. MS and Yahoo are pushed by Google's original idea to unhappily increase free webmail space to bigger one which is still comparatively small to users. They never wake up from the whole campaign. Let me give you one example. Microsoft's spokesman said users want better service rather than a simple big space. That's such a political bullcrap. When did google's service disappoint people and how many times Microsoft have? When Yahoo said "according to research shown, most user won't ever use over 100MB email storage", Yahoo also lost the battle against google simply because they trust their instincts of luring customers by science of statistics. By giving user 1GB email storage space, users won't use most of the storage according to Yahoo research, right? Is the space wasted? No. Nobody is still using that dumb database anymore to allocate empty space to people who never use them. Google is well aware of the fact and they still go ahead to offer 1GB, why? Customers like bargains and Google knew they will win the psychological war against webmail giants easily by doing so. Google is smart in so many ways, which makes Yahoo and MSN those giant bureaucratic corporations looks like old mentally challenged people.
What made Yahoo successful is because its innovative way of searching on the Internet. What Yahoo is doing now? Acquiring services from other successful small businesses faster than Yahoo's real capacity to integrate them. No more innovation from Yahoo wowed me for a long time already. On the contrary, Google is full of energy and ready to take any giant. When I wave goodbye to Yahoo and say hello to Google, I hope Google can keep the creative momentum going forever.
Posted at 11:22 AM in IT
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Through Min's friend working in Google, I got invitations to test drive Gmail and join the "snotty" Orkut club. Gmail is very convinient to use. Lots of javascript in it, which I don't like. But it's convinient and unique in so many ways, I fell in love with it instantly. There are so many people worrying about their privacy issue when Google try to integrate Adwords with Gmail by providing content-relevant Ads along side of normal email stuff. I personally don't worry about it. My information is not worth a million bucks and to get email scanned by a "robot" doesn't make me feel invaded. So, Kudos to Google. You guys did another great job!
At the same time, Google's Chinese website started to provide Pin Yin recognition system. You simply type Pin Yin into the system and the google server will translate it directly to possible Chinese characters. Very convinient for people like us who have to type Chinese by switching modes on the keyboard. In a way, Google could become a quasi-operating-system some day. I'm sure it will happen.
Posted at 1:13 AM in IT
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Saturday, February 7, 2004
Jeremy Zawodny announced the launch of My Yahoo! RSS Beta via his blog on January 22.
You can add it to your My Yahoo! account in no time.
You can have your RSS Feed included in My Yahoo! RSS by adding it to your account or by having your blog ping their XML-RPC interface. Refer to My Yahoo! RSS Syndication - FAQs for Publishers for more information.
Posted at 8:02 PM in IT
Monday, January 12, 2004
I installed movabletype and some plugins related to BOOKS. It's all setup now. Plan to do more with this new site, stay tuned.
Posted at 1:57 AM in IT
Saturday, January 10, 2004
lucis: "Inspired by patchwork progression , I've decided to maintian this entry in which I list all my MT tweaks. I'll probably add a new entry if I make a more complex change, but will try to list all the stuff I do with the blog here.
Some really good MT resources are: scriptygoddess , thegirliematters , and virtualvenus .
Okay, here is a list of various things that I've done with MT and the blog: - 12/31/03: To get thumbnail images automatically, installed netpbm and IPC::Run ; also changed ImageDriver in mt.cfg to netpbm .
- 12/20/03: Installed the BookQueue plugin. I now have a Currently Reading heading on the right!
- 12/20/03: Installed the MTAmazon plugin.
- 12/20/03: Replaced the old referrer with refer . Added relevant code in all templates (the .htaccess trick didnt work on 1and1).
- 12/16/03: Edited style sheet template to add the pre style for code.
- 12/15/03: Added sitemeter .
- 12/14/03: Converted this page to use the textile formatting.
- 12/14/03: Installed MT-Textile plugin. Seems to make editing quite easy!
- 12/14/03: Installed the smartypants plugin.
- 12/08/03: Listed the site on blogwise , and chicagobloggers .
- 12/08/03: Signed up on blogsnob .
- 12/08/03: Got a blogchalking tattoo.
- 12/07/03: Links on the calendar should now take you to the Daily archive for that day, and not the last post for that day.
- 12/07/03: Added a list of recent referrals - replaced by refer .
- 12/07/03: Played with the stylesheet - changed colors etc.
- 12/07/03: Modified template to list categories of a post under it. Also added a categories menu.
- 12/07/03: Converted all pages to .php
- 12/07/03: Signed up on geourl .
- 12/03/03: Signed up on blogrolling .
- 12/03/03: Added extremetracking .
- 12/03/03: dirified the archiving options
- 12/03/03: Blog started!
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Posted at 1:28 PM in IT
Thursday, January 8, 2004
Welcome to MSN.com, the revamped MY.MSN is way better than the old one. A lot prettier than my.Yahoo. I always hate MSN and MICROSOFT, but I love this aggregation of information in one place. very easy to configure.
Posted at 6:34 PM in IT
