Sutra on July 23rd, 2009

The Official Gmail Blog is inviting videos from Gmail users about how they manage their email. So, if you think you are a Gmail expert and a great email organizer, or not, read this post on the Gmail blog, if you can also make good videos, head to the Gmail channel on Youtube to submit [...]

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Sutra on July 19th, 2009

The Official Gmail Blog tells us that Gmail is no longer in beta. I don’t know if it is just me, but I have had the following two errors occurring multiple times: – Say, I read an email, or delete an email, or archive an email, or mark it as read — any of these [...]

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Sutra on April 2nd, 2009

Gmail has announced addition of another nice feature to Gmail Labs: auto-complete in search. You need to enable this feature in the Labs tab of your Gmail settings. Once this is enabled, as soon as you start typing in the search box, it looks up email addresses in your contact list and displays matching addresses [...]

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Sutra on March 27th, 2009

OK, I am just two months old on Twitter. With 70 odd updates in two months on my main account and about half as many on the other two, I can’t consider myself exactly a Twitter addict, but I do spend quite some time reading updates everyday. The concept is definitely cool, and some things [...]

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Sutra on March 5th, 2009

With the power of Internet, you have a chance to learn at least a new thing everyday, or at least about one new thing. A forwarded email I received today included a link to a picture from Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony. Nothing extraordinary about that, but the extraordinary thing about this one is that you [...]

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Sutra on July 26th, 2008

OK, this is what had been going on at my work Outlook-2003 email. Everytime, I received an email with an embedded image, the image wouldn’t show; all it showed was a placeholder for the image. When I clicked “reply”, the image did show in my reply. If I copied the image and pasted it to [...]

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Sutra on April 1st, 2007

I must admit it – Google’s two April fools jokes may be lame, but they got me – both Google TiSP (BETA) and Gmail Paper. TiSP (BETA) was simply too good to be true, and still I fell for it. It claimed that TiSP (BETA) was a free broadband service working “by connecting your commode-based [...]

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Sutra on November 30th, 2006

Are you annoyed by the Windows XP log on-screen messages saying under your log-on name that there are so many “new messages” in your account? This is not only an annoyance (because you do not necessarily have those messages), but also a privacy issue because other users on the computer also see that you “have” [...]

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Sutra on November 13th, 2006

This week I received this email forward for the tenth time in a year, and the title says, “FW: Fw: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE REEEEEAD! IT WAS ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA TODAY SHOW”, and after I pressed “pg dn” 91 times (trust me, I counted it), I saw the same text that I had seen in so [...]

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Sutra on November 5th, 2006

If you are not among the people native to the blue regions of the following map, and are reading this, you are more likely to know English as a second language. Still, if you are among the majority of internet users, most likely your language of computer usage is exclusively English. Do you know if [...]

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