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Year: 2008 (Page 10 of 14)

Gmail blog turns 1: Looking back at our 10 most read tips

Soruce :- Gmail BlogSpot

When we launched the Gmail blog exactly one year ago, our goal was to provide you with new feature announcements, insight into how the Gmail team works, and tips on how to become a Gmail ninja. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our posts, and to celebrate our birthday, here’s a look back at the past year and a recap of our 10 most read tips:

10) Have Gmail do your laundry – How to suggest new features for Gmail. We always like hearing from you.

9) Tips for importing old email to Gmail – A post on how to make the switch to Gmail as seamless as possible.

8) Edit contacts right from your chat list – When we released the newest version of Gmail, it came with some new bells and whistles. This one will help you clean up your chat list and change contact information quickly.

7) 2 Hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address – You can insert certain characters to your email address to get additional names out of it — all of which still make it to your inbox.

6) How to find any email with Gmail search – To take the best advantage of Gmail search, we explain how to use search operators so you can find any email the first time.

5) 5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about – When we released the newest version of Gmail, there were a bunch of really useful features people didn’t yet know about. So we told you about them.

4) Top 10 little known Gmail features (and Part 2) – In this post, we explained ten Gmail features that people generally didn’t know about. From “custom from” to creating events in Gmail, this post goes over key features any serious Gmail user needs to know.

3) Getting Gmail anywhere: IMAP versus POP – A lot of people choose to get Gmail on mobile phones and destkop mail clients, so we went over the two most popular ways people do so and showed the key benefits of using IMAP — which we’ve provided for free since the fall.

2) 3 Gmail Labs features that will spice up your inbox – This post covers how to enable and use the most popular Gmail Labs features: Superstars, Pictures in chat and Quick Links.

1) 9 reasons to archive – From the sophisticated to the snarky, these tips fueled the most viewed post in Gmail blog history. If this doesn’t get you to archive, then we don’t know what will.

Thanks for reading this past year, and we hope to provide even more tips this year — so stay tuned

IDLDPL rolls out YES DPF900 Digital Photo Frame in India

Source :- TechGadgets.In

YES DPF900 photo frame IDLDPL has announced the availability of the latest consumer technology product in the Indian market. It is a 9-inch digital photo frame dubbed DPF900 from YES.

The YES DPF900 frame allow you to store all your memories and even view it anytime on its brilliant, high-contrast color LCD screen. It claims to offer fast response, direct input from most digital cameras and memory cards, USB flash or syncing with the computer in addition to 8 MB onboard memory.

YES DPF900 packs in a lot of features including displaying a number of still photos, playing MP3 songs or MPEG4 files. You can also adjust the brightness and color of their high-resolution photos displayed.

YES has also installed an innovative reminiscence function that enables consumers to search a particular from a plethora of photos with ease, according to a specific date.

FARQ SIRF ITNA SA THA

Ack:- Heena

Teri doli uthi,
Meri mayyat uthi,
Phool tujh par bhi barse,
Phool mujh par bhi barse,

FARQ SIRF ITNA SA THA,
…………….
Tu saj gayi,
Mujhe sajaya gaya ,
Tu bhi ghar ko chali,
Main bi ghar ko chala,

FARQ SIRF ITNA SA THA,

………….

Tu uth ke gayi,
Mujhe uthaya gaya ,
Mehfil wahan bhi thi,
Log yahan bhi the,

FARQ SIRF ITNA SA THA,

…………..

Unka hasna wahan,
Inka rona yahan,
Qazi udhar bhi tha, Molvi idhar bhi tha,

Do bol tere pade, Do bol mere pade,
Tera nikah pada, Mera janaaza pada,

FARQ SIRF ITNA SA THA,
Tujhe apnaya gaya ,
Mujhe dafnaya gaya.

, FARQ SIRF ITNA SA THA, !!! -:(

Mindbloggling salaries are just a click away

Source :- IBNLive.com

New Delhi: For those of you who think blogging is just a pass time, here’s a myth breaker: for some, it’s a job that could earn you as much as Rs 1 lakh a month.

Welcome to the world of Amit Agarwal, one of the few professional bloggers in India. Agarwal started blogging two years after quitting his job at a software company. He now earns several lakhs a month. So how he does make his millions?

“I get sponsors who like to put advertisements on my website,” he says.
www.labnol.blogspot.com started as a technology blog where you’ll now find everything from ways to translate Hindi webpages to English, keys to read full copies of popular magazines, tips and tricks to use Wikipedia more effectively.

The site packs in more than 5,000 articles and is loaded with the kind of stuff that does not make to the newspapers but just the kind of stuff that more than two million people want to read every month.

If you want to click as a professional blogger, start posting five to seven times a day. Entries should be original and content consistent. But most of all, you need to be patient. Agarwal says his blog only started making money after about a year.

While cyberspace itself is the best teacher, you can learn to design, create and operate online content.

At Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media in Bangalore that offers a graduate and post-graduate diploma in new media and Asian College of Journalism in Chennai holds a post graduate diploma in new media.

Indian Salesman … Skill to Sell …

The Manager says: Do you have any sales experience?
The Indian says: Sir, I was a salesman back home in India.
Well, the boss liked the Indian chappie so he gave him the job. You start tomorrow.. Ill come down after we close and see how you did.

His first day on the job was rough but he got through it.
After the store was locked up, the boss came down. How many sales did you make today?
Indian boy says: Sir, Just ONE sale.
The boss says: Just one? No! No! No! You see here our sales people average 20 or 30 sales a day. If you want to keep this job, youd better be doing better than just one sale. By the way, how much was the sale for?

Indian boy says: 237. 64
Boss says: 237. 64? What the hell did you sell?
Indian boy says: Sir, First I sell him small fishhook.
Then I sell him medium fishhook.
Then I sell him large fishhook.
Then I sold him new fishing rod and some fishing gear.
Then I ask him where hes going fishing and he said down on the coast, so I told him hell be needing a boat, so we went down to the boating department and I sell him twin engine Chris Craft.
Then he said he didnt think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to our automotive department and sell him that 4X4 Blazer.
I then ask him where hell be staying, and since he had no accommodation, I took him to camping department and sell him one of those new igloo 6 sleeper camper tents.
Then the guy said, while were at it, I should throw in about worth of groceries and two cases of beer.

The boss said: Youre not serious? A guy came in here to buy a fishhook and you sold him a boat, a 4X4 truck and a tent?

Indian boy says: No Sirji, actually he came in to buy Anacin for his headache, and I said: Well, fishing is the best way to relax your mind.

‘Touchy feely’:: article by Chetan Bhagat

Ack :- Gayatreee

I remember the incident – I was in a restaurant and one girl in our group was especially charming. So I, like any other male, tried to put on a wooing act. You know the routine, a nanosecond extra eye contact, a few more nods to whatever she says, and attempts to throw in those one-liners which you know you wouldn’t if she weren’t there. And it seemed to be working. She leaned forward when she spoke to me, and every now and again, we’d have a small conversation of our own, separate from our group. She laughed at my approach with the fork and knife, and I teased her about her hair band, which had little teddy bears. Yes, we were flirting.

A while later, she asked me the question what did I study? I said engineering, without any particular meaning attached to it. And then like a cold metal rail, she went stiff.My jokes weren’t funny any more. Her eyes wandered to everyone else.
What was it?
Why? Why? Why?

Two days later, I still couldn’t get over my great start that had dissipated listlessly upon mentioning my education. Engineer? What was wrong with that? My mom had wanted me to become one since I was five! I had to call her. ‘So what happened to you that day, hot and cold, missie?’ And then she said, trying to be nice, ‘Well, it’s just that I am skeptical about engineers as friends. I don’t know, they can be, you know, very logical and everything…not very touchy feely’.

Not touchy-feely. Now what the heck did that mean? Well, she obviously did not mean it literally, since girls don’t really suggest that sort of stuff, certainly not in the first meeting across the table. I guessed it was something to do with feelings, sort of having an emotional side. The stereotype being, the nerdy guy who sees relationships like laws of physics, to whom love is just a bunch of chemicals going crazy in your brain, and getting to know a person means obtaining their bio-data.
It’s time to set the record straight.

It’s true that a lot of what engineers study (and they end up studying quite a lot), has to do with formulaes, laws and numbers. No matter how hard we try, some of the vocabulary we read all day gets into our language. So when my mother said, ‘Are you getting married next year or not?’ I was liable to say, ‘Well, at this moment in time, the probability is relatively low,’ and felt it was completely normal to say it. And when my sister went sari shopping and couldn’t explain the shade she wanted, I told the shopkeeper the percentages of pink, orange and red in the sari.

Yet, ladies, I don’t think we’re bad at relationships, love and getting to know people. We too, can be touchy-feely, as that is part of our education as well. The reason for this is that most engineering students live in the this ‘touchy-feely’ thing. Relationships.

Imagine eating, sleeping, brushing your teeth, bathing (ok rarely this one) and partying with the same people all the time. So, when you are kicking that bathroom door down for the tenth time, or when you stand in line for ‘gulab-jamuns’ in the mess, and when you are done with the vodka bottle and sharing all your secrets, you know it is good practice. Yes, hostels maketh the man. So, next time you are in a flirtatious situation with the techno types, go on, flirt a bit more. Of course, I am biased towards my kind, but if you find the conversation turning too geeky, just ask them, ‘So, what were your hostel days like?’ and chances are, you’ll see a heart behind the calculator.

Coming back to my missie, I thought of what would make me win her over. Flowers… too cheesy. Music… don’t know her taste (nor trust mine). Teddy bears… don’t even go there.Desperate for some good lines, I just turned it right back at her. ‘Yes, I know what you are saying about engineers. The thing is, unless people with depth like you start hanging out with us, we won’t get any better. Can you meet me some time for some touchy/feely… oops, I mean coffee/tea?’

She giggled. When they giggle, you have won

Getting Gmail anywhere: IMAP versus POP

If you access Gmail via a phone or email client using POP, you may be frustrated by the fact that any action you take, such as reading, sorting or deleting, doesn’t sync with your Gmail account. You may have read and sorted all your new mail on your phone, for example, but when you log back in to Gmail using a browser, you’re presented with a full inbox of unread messages that you have to re-read and re-organize. What you may not realize is that you have another option that solves these problems: IMAP.

It can be a little confusing to learn about different ways to get email on your phone or in an email client such as Thunderbird or Outlook, but this breakdown of the key differences between POP and IMAP should help you decide which way to go.

There are two ways your devices and clients can communicate with Gmail:

1. A one-way communication path (POP). Your device asks us for data and pulls it from our servers — but that’s it. Things you do on your device have no effect on the server. If you read a message on your phone, then log in to Gmail, you will see that same message marked as unread. It may start to feel like Groundhog Day.

2. A two-way communication path (IMAP). Unlike with POP, your devices talk back to our servers and sync your changes automatically with IMAP. When you sign in to your Gmail account in a web browser, actions you’ve taken on your email client or mobile device (like putting a message in a ‘work’ folder) will also appear in Gmail (your message will already have a ‘work’ label on it). This all happens automatically once you set up IMAP, so you don’t have to read or sort all your mail twice. This is really helpful when accessing Gmail from multiple devices.

Here’s a quick rundown of the key differences between IMAP and POP:

As you can see, the benefits of IMAP clearly outweigh those of POP. To set up IMAP, just follow these steps.

Man + Woman = 2 Donkeys that live happily together!

Equation 1

Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoy
Donkey = eat + sleep
=> Human = Donkey + work + enjoy
=> Human – enjoy = Donkey + work

In other words, Human that don’t know enjoy = Donkey that work
============ ========= ========= ========= =========
Equation 2

Men = eat + sleep + earn money
Donkeys = eat + sleep
=> Men = Donkeys + earn money
=> Men – earn money = Donkeys

In other words, Men that don’t earn money = Donkeys
============ ========= ========= ========= =========
Equation 3

Women = eat + sleep + spend
Donkeys = eat + sleep
=> Women = Donkeys + spend
=> Women – spend = Donkeys

In other words, Women that don’t spend = Donkeys
============ ========= ========= ========= =========
To Conclude:

From Equation 2 and Equation 3
Men that don’t earn money = Women that don’t spend.
So, Men earn money not to let women become Donkeys! (Postulate 1)
And, Women spend not to let men become Donkeys! (Postulate 2)

So, we have? Men + Women = Donkeys + earn money + Donkeys + spend money
Therefore from Postulates 1 and 2, we can conclude
Man + Woman = 2 Donkeys that live happily together!

IBM Vows To Stay Ahead in Domestic (Indian) IT Market

The Indian services arm of IBM Corp., which contributed almost $1 billion (around Rs 4,200 crore) in company revenues during 2007, is gearing up to aggressively grow the business as it takes on competition from domestic rivals such as Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

IBM’s aggressive targets here are significant not just because India is turning out to be the fastest expanding business for IBM globally and already plays a significant role in its global services strategy but, it comes as other top local tech firms such as TCS and Infosys Technologies Ltd are beginning to go after similar business within India.

Demand for information technology, or IT, services in India is expanding at 30-32 percent annually, the fastest expansion of such a market anywhere in the world, from about $5 billion, according to market research firm Datamonitor India. Tech researcher Gartner Inc.’s local office estimates the market at Rs 19,562 crore. Industry insiders estimate IBM has about half of outsourced contracts in India.

“Right now, India contributes 3 percent of our total revenues and that’s purely from Finnacle (Infosys’ banking software product) and what we consider as significant contribution is when we cross the 5 percent mark. We are hoping that India at some point will be more than 5 percent,” he said. Analysts note that IBM has been focusing on the domestic deals for nearly 10 years. That coupled with their strategy of helping Indian businesses transform themselves by leveraging IT, has helped IBM build a strong domestic base.

Bharti Airtel Ltd, Idea Cellular Ltd, Vodafone Essar Ltd, the government’s Central Bureau of Direct Taxes, the Delhi International Airport Ltd and real estate giant DLF Ltd are among IBM’s key customers in India. “IBM has always seen IT services as part of the bigger business issue which is business transformation. This is their strength and so, their selling pitch and IT penetration is at a different level,” said Alok Shende, practice head at market research firm Datamonitor India

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