We all have reasons to add a note/comment to an email for future reference.

Here’s a trick that you could use to add a note/comment to an email that is only visible to you and doesn’t get attached to the email while replying/forwarding. All this without an expensive plugin.

If you don’t use outlook Categories to categorize your email, then this is for you. I use custom task folders to organize tasks by a project and use folders to organize email. If you have Xobni, you won’t have trouble finding any email.

Picture speaks louder than words.

Open up the email you want to add a comment OR click on the email and click Categorize

Click on Add New Category and type the note with a choice of your color

And that’s all folks.

If you want to get fancy, you can customize your Categorize button to say “Add a note” and change the icon to something that looks like a post-it. The idea is to use unused features of outlook to your advantage.

Having an iPhone 3G since the first day of its release, I felt compelled to give & perhaps get an engineer’s view. All these app’s are free. Now there are several, possibly, very useful apps on store for a price but then again, I won’t be covering those.

From how I see it, I can do most of the complex calculations on my computer. An iphone provides a portable platform for checking things quick. If it comes at a price, might as well open up my laptop. 

Calculator

iPhone Advanced Calculator

iPhone’s Simple & Advanced Calculator comes to the rescue of those on the spot bulky calculations any day.

GraphCalc (Plotting 2D Graphs)

Graph Calc

Quite self explanatory. Plots upto four 2D equations superimposed on the graph.

Units

Convert anything and everything to your desired units.

iResist

iResist

Having trouble calculating resistance of that odd looking resister in your pocket or perhaps, you need to find out quick which one to use for a desired resistance. iResist is the app for you.

Other General Apps
Most of you already know about these but worth mentioning to those who are new to the app world:

• Zenbe (Lists)
  Create & manage tasks and lists. Sync’s over Zenbe server online.
   
• Air Sharing / Files
  Transfer files from & to your iphone wirelessly.   
• Evernote
  Capture notes through text, audio or photo and sync online to your evernote account. Very useful for capturing graphs, calcs you might have done on paper or on whiteboard.
  
  
• WhiteNoise
  Ah, not really a productivity app but something makes you productive while doing something else. Provides different sounds for a set timer.  

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Hopefully, orkut users will realize this soon and use what things are supposed to be used for.

Mr. Special characters @$#, I hope you’re listening!

Well guess what! What she forgot to mention was that by just “scheduling” a disconnect they actually disconnect your internet right at that moment. They stop your internet authorization for the service. My internet stopped working almost instantly after putting down the phone and took me back to the comcast authorization page. Ofcourse, the same account can’t be authorized twice at the same location. So, I called the tech support again and after an hour of transferring and waiting and transferring I finally was able to cancel the scheduled disconnect and that brought the internet back instantly. Something , perhaps, that they should let their customers know while they are scheduling a disconnect.

So folks out there planning to move and thinking of scheduling your service disconnect, keep this in mind - the internet won’t work! So do it a day or so before you leave.

A lot! For starters, your identity. It annoys me like anything when I see “~Angel of your dreams~” OR “Listening to Ga ga…” OR “Happy blah-blah festival” in people’s orkut display name.

A display name is not your daily dose of updates to your friends. It’s your name, a name by which people will identify you and your long lost friends will look for you.

Wasn’t this the whole reason why you joined orkut or your fav. social community website? Oh well!

The other day, I was looking for a school friend and couldn’t find him on orkut searching by any keywords. I knew he had an account on orkut as a friend of mine had mentioned it once. What do I do now? Yes, like most of you do in a similar situation, go through that friend’s friend list and look for a familiar face. And if that person is using another avatar than his/her picture then you’re in for a painful experience. 99% of you will probably quit at this step and will wait for your friend to forward the contact to you. If you don’t have a common friend then you probably assume your long lost friend isn’t on orkut, only to find out later that your friend existed all along and had decided to change their display name.

Argh!!!

If you’re one of the ~Changed my name for coolness~ people, hope you get the message.

[UPDATE:]

Orkut status message introduced.

http://members.shaw.ca/lucx/

written prior to his release…

I held on updating firefox and thunderbird from 1.5 to 2 until now just because there wasn’t a compatible version of the charamel theme available for with these versions.

lucx did a commendable work with the charamel theme and IMHO there isn’t one up to its standard yet. We all thank him for his work! Unfortunately he has lost interest in charamel for his own valid reasons and we respect that.

Now the trick to making charamel work with Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0 is pretty simple. Change the max version number in the install.rdf to any reasonable number above 1.6 in the latest installation charamel jar file.


Now you can do this yourself or just download a copy from here. Obviously, there is no guarantee or support that I can offer as this is merely a trick that works with the existing jar file.

Download: Click here

Hats off to you lucx for doing such a great work! We all wish you will regain your interest one day and update your theme. All credits are due to lucx, this is not an update.

Alex Bosworth talks about “10 Places You Must Use Ajax” and places where you shouldn’t. Its a fairly good post with good items on the list. A little old post (Dec 05) but useful, for any ajax developer to justify his conscience whether to use ajax or not
Rush to his blog post

TreeMap

Reason for this? Perhaps, you don’t want people tracking the referrer of the url.

There are two ways of doing it:
a) Disable links
b) Wrap links around “code” tags even if users use “url” tags.

Option b) is what I would be delving into. This option lets the user post in any way they like and the links are wrapped with “code” tags.

I have tested this on 2.1.x
For step-by-step tutorial, keep reading.

Tutorial

Step 1:

• Open “jscripts\ipb_editor_std.js” in a text editor like notepad or Dreamweaver.
• Find “function tag_url()”
• Comment out the whole function by putting a “/*” before the function and “*/” after the function
• Paste the following code above it:

Note: Please remove the extra space between [ and code (occurrence twice)

function tag_url()
{
var FoundErrors = '';
//----------------------------------------
// Do we have ranged text?
//----------------------------------------
if ( check_range() )
{
//----------------------------------------
// Yes, just ask for the URL and wrap
//----------------------------------------
var enterURL = prompt(text_enter_url, "http://");
if ( ! enterURL)
{
alert(error_no_url);
return;
}
wrap_tags( "[ code]'"+enterURL+"]", "[/code]", "" );
}
else
{
var enterURL    = prompt(text_enter_url, "http://");
if ( ! enterURL)
{
FoundErrors += " " + error_no_url;
}
if ( FoundErrors )
{
alert( jsfile_error_lang +FoundErrors);
return;
}
wrap_tags("[ code]"+enterURL+"[/code]", "");
}

Step 2:

• Open “sources\classes\bbcode\class_bbcode.php”
• Look for

$txt = preg_replace( "#[url](S+?)[/url]#ie" , "$this->regex_build_url(array('html' => '1', 'show' => '1'))", $txt );
$txt = preg_replace( "#[urls*=s*\";s*(S+?)s*\";s*](.*?)[/url]#ie" , "$this->regex_build_url(array('html' => '1', 'show' => '2'))", $txt );
$txt = preg_replace( "#[urls*=s*(S+?)s*](.*?)[/url]#ie", "$this->regex_build_url(array('html' => '1', 'show' => '2'))", $txt );

• Comment each line out by adding a “//” before each line.
• Add the following code above it:

$txt = preg_replace( "#[url]#ie", "'['.code.']'", $txt );
$txt = preg_replace( "#[/url]#ie", "'['.'/'.code.']'", $txt );
$txt = preg_replace( "#[code](.+?)[/code]#ies", "$this->regex_code_tag( '1' )", $txt );

This modification will do two things:
a) Users will be able to post links just like before except the “url” tags will be automatically replaced by “code” tags
b) If they manually type in the “url” tag it gets replaced by “code” tag.

Enjoy!
Nikhil

Update [04/16/06]: A better way of removing the referrals would be to destroy it by creating a redirect page that takes the second part of the url string and redirects it to the desired page. The link to this redirection page is appended to each url.