Byte-sized bites of technology
Gmail today unveiled a new inbox view that brings back control to email. The new Gmail inbox will automatically sort your emails based on who you receive them from and all are easily accessible by a familiar tabbed interface. Your key emails will automatically show up in Primary and serves as the default inbox that you can access either from you desktop, Andoird or iOS mobile app.
Many weeks back after much deliberation, I decided to give CloudFlare a shot. As they describe themselves... CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online.
We love listening to great music. Great music keeps our nerves calm, our brain fully awaken and stimulates our soul. No matter how far we’ve come in the journey of evolution we still crave for great music that resonates with our hearts, and will for sure even hundred years from now on.
Online shopping hasn't taken off as much as developed countries like the UK or the US. However, you do have a few sites like Flipkart that are changing the face of this. Most retailers like Shoppers Stop and Big Bazaar already have online stores and Ebay has existed in India for as long as I can remember.
Creating content for the Internet is a challenge. On the one hand, without constant content creation, websites lose traffic and become irrelevant. On the other side of the equation, some unscrupulous webmasters and bloggers regularly seek fresh content from other sites, recycling it on their own pages.
Users who love sharing knowledge and ideas should definitely consider subscribing to Usenet. Usenet has been around for more than a decade and has provided users from all across the globe with a public discussion forum. Usenet is a collection of newsgroups that are further divided into sub-groups.
Last month, Gmail rolled out the new compose interface. Today the Gmail team released a new feature to compliment this. If you're using the new compose window, within the next few days, you should be able to see a new button that lets you quickly link to files stored in your Google Drive.
Gmail's advanced search feature is extremely powerful. I usually use this for for searching for emails from recipients or with certain labels. Today, Gmail rolled out a new feature on searching through your emails.
I bought the Nexus 7 (32Gb) last week when Google released the new model. At £299, it is perfectly priced and you receive a powerful tablet power by Google and Android. This is my first Android based devices and I spent a good portion of my weekend exploring the tablet and the Play store.
Composing emails in a desktop client like Thunderbird or Postbox allows you switch back and forth between windows easily. Look up your other emails for reference or just let the Compose window sit in the background while you check new mail. By contrast most web-based clients don't give you this flexibility and Gmail hopes to remedy that with the new compose feature.