How to get April Fooled by Google :P

This only works if you are using Gmail on Chrome...
Click on the Gmail Motion link ... and then see the pics and follow...

Funky new ways of letting your readers view your blogposts!

This is for all the people who use Blogger (like me)...

Google is doing interesting things with Blogger..

Blogger is now offering five 'dynamic views' for blogs. These views are only accessible if you (the blog author) allow it by sending out URLs like these:

Flipcard: - [yourblogURL]/view/flipcard

Mosaic: - [yourblogURL]/view/mosaic

Sidebar: - [yourblogURL]/view/sidebar

Snapshot: - [yourblogURL]/view/snapshot

Timeslide: - [yourblogURL]/view/timeslide

All of these views are very interactive with full mouse-over support and very light and quick to load (unlike something built in Flash)

For example, the URL for accessing the Sidebar view for my food blog would be http://eatbhaieat.blogspot.com//view/sidebar
You'll see something like this

In flipcard mode
http://eatbhaieat.blogspot.com/view/flipcard you'll see

In mosaic mode
http://eatbhaieat.blogspot.com/view/mosaic you'll see

To read more about this have a look at the official Google blog about this at:

All about Dynamic Views for Readers - Blogger HelpMosaic Mode

Transitioning from Office 2003 to Office 2007

I found a useful tip for comparing Office 2007 commands with Office 2003 commands in Jody Gilbert's article in Techrepublic.com

Some useful links are:

• A downloadable Excel worksheet that maps Word 2003 menu commands to Word 2007 Ribbon tabs, groups, and commands.
• The Interactive Word 2003 To Word 2007 Command Reference Guide

How to use Boolean Operators in GMail filters

 In short we have the following options


or --> OR (All caps is necessary)
and -->
not --> "-" (Minus sign)


Here is the official Google video

Here are a few site that explains how to use Boolean operators:


http://blogwaffe.com/2006/01/30/gmail-filters-and-boolean-operators/
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8931


Reproducing the instructions from the first site (read the discussion after the post as well...):


"Gmail allows its users to construct email filters to tag messages with various labels, forward things to different address and so forth by specifying the conditions an email must meet before the filter in question is applied. One can specify that the message be From a particular source, be sent To a certain address, contain specific text and so on. Since the filters are implemented as Gmail search queries, Gmail filters may also include basic boolean logic. For instance, you can create a filter that catches emails From bob@example.com OR sally@example.org. In terms of Gmail’s search syntax, this filter would be denoted as from:(bob@example.com OR sally@example.org). Similarly, NOTs are specified with minus signs, and spaces are used for ANDs.

Gmail’s filters, then, are fairly robust. However, the interface for writing filters is very limiting. The user is presented with five text boxes: From, To, Subject, Has The Words, Doesn’t Have. And that’s all the options we get. Suppose, instead of the above, I wanted to create a filter that caught messages From bob@example.com OR To sally@example.org. I can type ‘bob@example.com’ into the From box and ‘sally@example.org’ into the To box to try to construct such a filter. But Gmail does not offer me the ability to specify the boolean operator that should be applied between the From and To conditions; it assumes AND. I’m hosed.

But only at first glance. You can actually implement a relative OR between fields. A cursory internet search yielded the following clever solution.

In the From field, enter

bob@example.com) OR to:(sally@example.org

It’s the sneaky use of parentheses that makes it all work. Another solution would be to enter the entire search query into the Has The Words field:

from:(bob@example.com) OR to:(sally@example.org)

Though more straightforward, some will argue it isn’t as clean.

Anyway, don’t let Gmail’s (in this case) crappy interface stop you from making arbitrarily complicated filters."