20 Dec 09 How to use Labels in Gmail to Make Your Life Easy

How to use Labels in Gmail to Make Your Life Easy

I am a big fan of the label feature. Currently, I am using around 125 labels and filter combination to short my mails. Labels in Gmail are such a lifesaver. It helps us organize our mails and keep the inbox tidy. You can use label along with filter option to create a rule to categorize the mails and even remove them from your inbox. I will tell you how you can use the labels.

Create a label and a filter rule

This is the very first thing to do. Let’s say you have created a label called Sweetheart, and in the filter you mention that any mail from your sweetheart’s mail ID (even more than one) should go directly to that label skipping inbox, or simply apply the label to the mails coming from her.

Color code your labels

Like me, you can also color code your labels. It makes it easy to visually scan through the kind of stuff is there. Like all my SEO newsletters have Orange code, online marketing ones has red code, and all my writing related newsletters has blue code. This has helped me visually scan through the labels.

Activate Hide read labels from Gmail lab

Click settings (you can find it near logout link in Gmail) followed by lab then scroll down to find “Hide read labels”. Enable this feature. This will help you keep the sidebar clutter free, and only labels with unread mails will be visible to you.

Using labels to search

You can also use labels as a shortcut to reach the mail you want. For this, you will need to enable “Go to label” feature from settings >> lab. (See pic for detail).

Hide Labels from subject

I personally do not like hiding labels from subjects, but not everyone shares the same view, therefore, Google has this feature to hide labels from subjects. To activate this, go to settings and then to lab, search for “Hide Labels from Subjects” and enable it (see pic). That is all you need to do, if you do not like seeing colorful labels beside subjects.

Tags: Clutter, Colorful Labels, Filter Combination, Filter Option, Free Labels, Gmail, Google, Inbox, Lifesaver, Mail Id, Marketing, Orange, Sweetheart, Unread Mails

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02 Dec 09 Droid vs iPhone Holiday Gift Debate

So the holidays are here, and you want to find that perfect gift for a loved one. A smartphone has to be at the top of the list for any gadget savvy family member. But the big question is, which phone do you buy? To be honest, this year your choices are really between the iPhone 3GS and Droid if you want the best smart phone for your money. So how should you decide which phone meets your giftee’s needs?

Well, by considering which phone offers the features that will matter the most. While both the Droid and iPhone look similar, and even operate similarly, they differ on some key issues that tend to be very important to user taste. First off, the service providers.

Droid is on the Verizon network, which is widely regarded to be the best cellphone network. This is because Verizon has the broadest coverage across the United States. AT&T sort of pales in comparison to Verizon’s coverage area. Many iPhone users complain about a high rate of dropped calls. Something Verizon users don’t complain about as often.

Which is where you should consider, how much are they actually going to use this smartphone as a phone? If you think your target audience would prefer to text or use the 3G network for email and internet, opposed to phone calls, either phone works. AT&T has issues with dropped calls, but not with texting, etc.

Another major difference is that the Droid has a hardware keyboard accessable by sliding the screen aside. This could be a great advantage if you can’t stand touch screen keyboards. And let’s face it, touch screen keyboards usually leave something to be desired. But the problem with slide features in phones is that they usually wear down and break quickly. This means your Droid could have a shorter lifespan than an iPhone because of the sliding motion. Even when protected by warranty, that’s still going to be a hassle.

The iPhone also has one other major advantage, and that’s the iTunes App Store. The iPhone has over 100,000 different applications for every variety of uses you can think of. The Droid store only offers 10,000 at the moment. Apple as the more popular retailer will be the more likely to keep expanding it’s applications quickly.

So as an overall verdict, if you want the best gadget to play with, go for the iPhone. The network isn’t as good, but more applications means more entertainment, and access to iTunes means more accessable music and videos. But if you actually want to make calls with your phone, the Droid is your best bet for the Verizon network.

Tags: 3g Network, 3gs, Accessable, Cellphone Network, Coverage Area, Droid, Family Member, Find That Perfect Gift, Hardware Keyboard, Holiday Gift, Iphone, Itunes, Lifespan, Pales In Comparison, Screen Keyboards, Smart Phone, Smartphone, Target Audience, Touch Screen, Verizon Network

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01 Nov 09 Google’s View of the Future of the Web

Google has changed the way we search or surf the net. It has also significantly influenced our e-mailing and chat behavior. Thanks to Google for keeping history of our chats in Gmail itself, it makes important conversation easily accessible to us, and also save us from saving the chat in text files.

This very company has now wore a predictor hat and predicting that the future of the web lies in the hands of Chinese language contents and social media. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt in his 45-minute long interview in front of thousands of CIOs and IT Directors at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009 made many interesting prediction about the future of the Internet.

You can view the complete interview by clicking on 45-minute long interview of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, but for those who do not wish to go through all 45 minutes, I am providing here the key points from the interview.

Highlights of Eric Schmidt’s Interview

In 5 years, Chinese language content will dominate the web.
Teenagers who jump from application to application seamlessly are the model of tomorrow’s web.
Broadband will reach 100mbps in 5-year time.
The distinction between TV, radio and web from distribution point of view will vanish in 5 years.
Google is making significant money from YouTube.
Eric Schmidt believes that future will have more video oriented content.
Google wants to include real time information in its search result.
Computing power will improve significantly in next 5 years.
User generated content will have more audience then any traditional source.
Google OS Netbook will be available from 2010.

Tags: Ceo Eric Schmidt, Chinese Language, Cios, Computing Power, Distribution Point, Eric Schmidt, Future Of The Internet, Gartner Symposium Itxpo, Google, Google Search, Language Content, Language Contents, Netbook, Oriented Content, Seamlessly, Search Result, Traditional Source, Tv Radio, User Generated Content, Video Link, youtube

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20 Dec 09 How to use Labels in Gmail to Make Your Life Easy

Create a label and a filter rule

Color code your labels

Activate Hide read labels from Gmail lab

Using labels to search

Hide Labels from subject

02 Dec 09 Droid vs iPhone Holiday Gift Debate

01 Nov 09 Google’s View of the Future of the Web

Highlights of Eric Schmidt’s Interview

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