Showing posts with label tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tricks. Show all posts

Sunday, April 13, 2008

forget mouse in gmail.

wanna some keyboard shortcuts for gmail???
just press `?` when in gmail - keyboard shorts appear..
it makes it fast to load and browse.
Have shortcuts for all functions in gmail :-D
you'll have to enable keyboard shortcuts in your setting first.
settings--> key board shortcuts on

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Get free logins and passwords :)

You're browsing the web and you click a link to an article on a site (let's say nytimes.com) but instead of getting the article you get a screen asking you to login or register. Infuriated at the idea of pointlessly registering for yet another site you turn to your good buddy bugmenot.com

Here in this site you can get a user ids and passwords for any site. Hence we dont need to register for any site which you think you're not going to use again.
Here is the link

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Search Fast in Gmail..

Do You Know How to view only unread messages from Gmail?
type is:unread in the search box.
There are much more tricks which will minimize your search time..

Operator

Definition

Example(s)

from:

Used to specify the sender

Example - from:amy

Meaning - Messages from Amy

to:

Used to specify a recipient

Example - to:david

Meaning - All messages that were sent to David (by you or someone else)

subject:

Search for words in the subject line

Example - subject:dinner

Meaning - Messages that have the word "dinner" in the subject

OR

Search for messages matching term A or term B*

*OR must all be in capitals

Example - from:amy OR from:david

Meaning - Messages from Amy or from David

-

(hyphen)

Used to exclude messages from your search

Example - dinner -film

Meaning - Messages that contain the word "dinner" but do not contain the word "film"

label:

Search for messages by label*

*There is not a search operator for unlabelled messages

Example - from:amy label:friends

Meaning - Messages from Amy that have the label "friends"

Example - from:david label:my-family

Meaning - Messages from David that have the label "My Family"

has:attachment

Search for messages with an attachment

Example - from:david has:attachment

Meaning - Messages from David that have an attachment

filename:

Search for an attachment by name or type

Example - filename:physicshomework.txt

Meaning - Messages with an attachment named "physicshomework.txt"

Example - label:work filename:pdf

Meaning - Messages labelled "work" that also have a PDF file as an attachment

" "

(quotes)

Used to search for an exact phrase*

*Capitalisation isn't taken into consideration

Example - "I'm feeling lucky"

Meaning - Messages containing the phrase "I'm feeling lucky" or "I'm feeling lucky"

Example - subject:"dinner and a film"

Meaning - Messages containing the phrase "dinner and a film" in the subject

( )

Used to group words

Used to specify terms that shouldn't be excluded

Example - from:amy(dinner OR film)

Meaning - Messages from Amy that contain either the word "dinner" or the word "film"

Example - subject:(dinner film)

Meaning - Messages in which the subject contains both the word "dinner" and the word "film"

in:anywhere

Search for messages anywhere in your account*

*Messages in Spam and Trash are excluded from searches by default

Example - in:anywhere subject:film

Meaning - Messages in All Mail, Spam, and Trash that contain the word "movie"

in:inbox

in:trash

in:spam

Search for messages in Inbox, Trash, or Spam

Example - in:trash from:amy

Meaning - Messages from Amy that are in Trash

is:starred

is:unread

is:read

Search for messages that are starred, unread or read

Example - is:read is:starred from:David

Meaning - Messages from David that have been read and are marked with a star

cc:

bcc:

Used to specify recipients in the cc: or bcc: fields*

*Search on bcc: cannot retrieve messages on which you were blind carbon copied<>

Example - cc:david

Meaning - Messages that were cc'd to David

after:

before:

Search for messages sent during a certain period of time*

*Dates must be in mm/dd/yyyy format.

Example - after:2004/04/16 before:2004/04/18

Meaning - Messages sent after April 16 2004, but before April 18 2004.*

*More precisely: Messages sent on 17th April 2004.