4 Sanity Saving Tricks for Gmail
As someone who values being as productive as possible, I find using Gmail helps me keep up with my inbox while trying to get things done. If you are a Gmail user yourself, there are some things that you can do to make life in your inbox a little less cluttered and stressful. Here are a few of my favorites: 1. Muted conversations Do you keep getting included on reply all threads that you don’t really need to be on? Mute the conversation!... Read More
How to Back Up Your Gmail Account
As a long time Gmail fan, every email that I send or receive goes through my gmail account. Once I was annoyed by it’s clustered conversations but then it won me over with keyboard shortcuts and amazing search of my inbox. One thing that does terrify me is their ability to lock you out of your account, taking several days to fix it even if you do the required reset to your password via text message or secondary email. While I have both... Read More
Tip: Don’t Use MS Word to Compose Blog Posts for WordPress
If you’re blogging on the WordPress platform, composing your posts in MS Word, copying and pasting them to the Add New Post window, this carries over encoding that makes your post look funky sometimes when you hit publish. To avoid this, use something like BBEdit, TextEdit (included on Macs), or another notepad type of software. I know some folks use blog editors like Ecto as well. This works too. If you have composed posts in MS Word in... Read More
More Gmail Features to Love: Send and Archive
Regular readers know that I’m a huge Gmail fan. I’ve written about the way I used Things + Gmail to make life a little easier (the comments have some great tips too!), but a while back I requested a feature from Google that would make my heart melt. I discovered this morning that my wish had come true. Anyone can now log into Gmail, go to Labs and enable the Send and Archive feature that allows you to hit tab + enter and it’ll... Read More
Label your equipment
When buying or after you receive an iPod or any expensive gift for Christmas, have it engraved or label it somehow. One piece of contact info will allow someone to (hopefully) contact you to return it. A friend recently lost $1,200 worth of camera equipment. No one has a way to contact him because he didn’t have it labeled in any way. When replacing the equipment, he chose to have it engraved. Also, if stolen, it makes it more complicated... Read More
