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Tame Gmial Inbox

bo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:35:28 +0000

The best feature of Gmail for me is ability to create a filter and use “skip Inbox” option. So I have “bacn” folder where I put stuff that I’m not considering a SPAM but it’s not personally addressed or important mail ether. Then I have 2 quick links defined: “Unread” and “Unread (no bacn)”. And lastly I have a lab features that give me “Select unread” and “mark as read” options. Between all these things my Inbox is very manageable

Oh, Fame #2

bo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:57:17 +0000

I appeared as part of the interview with leading Android developers on odinjobs.com

Oh, the fame!

bo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:53:08 +0000

My post to AndroidGuys about Google offering free phones to developers is referenced by ZDNet here http://is.gd/9H5a0

Tom Petty world tour?

bostone — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:12:45 +0000

I just got email from TomPetty.com to “stay posted for the important announcement”. I’m guessing new world tour. I did see him in concert back in 2007 and it was a blast, I sure like to do it again!

LinkedIn with Outlook

bo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:48:20 +0000

LinkedIn just announced that they have built Oulook connector. It’s pretty sweet, installed without any problems

Tame that “Buzz”

bo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:03:55 +0000

One thing that annoys me about new Google “Buzz” service is that it dumps lots of stuff into my Inbox. Here’s quick way to filter it out until Google comes back to its senses:

Open any of buzz messages in your Inbox
Pick “Filter messages like this” from “More Actions” button/link on top-right portion of message window
The form will open. Type “Buzz from” including quotes into Subject field. Or you can use label:buzz
Click “Test Search” you should see your buzz messages only
Click “Next Step”
Put check-mark into “Skip Inbox”
Optionally you can assign label to this filter. You won’t be able to pick “buzz” but you can use something like “whadabuzz” or anything else
Optionally select “Also apply filter to N conversations below”.
Click “Create Filter”.
Return to Inbox. Buzz messages should be gone

iPad as a bookreader? Phalease…

bo — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:00:12 +0000

Personally I’m fine with iPad as an Internet browsing device. I think it is awesome. But as a book reader? How’s that different with reading a book from your PC? I hate to read more than 2 pages from back-lit display. It’s called eInk for a reason.

Google Wave – can you hear me?

bo — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:56:54 +0000

This morning I realized what Google Wave reminds me of. Imagine that you just walked into room full of people, something like an art exhibition. There are lots of people, all of them talking possibly about the same subject. There are all types of active conversations – some long, some short, some smart, some… mmmm… not so smart. But all you can hear is a cacophony

Whole Lotta Love

bo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:27:28 +0000

I’m getting lynched by an angry mob of Droid lovers for hinting that Droid looks may be sub-par to these of iPhone

It’s so vain

bo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:53:50 +0000

And probably lame too, but it feels good to get >1K reps on Stackoverflow.com