March 21, 2010 • 11:48 am 0
Windows Seven has some interesting, if flawed, search options (some tips here.)
But install Google Desktop Search and you’re likely to lose the global shortcut key of Win + F, and there’s no obvious way to get it back.
Here’s how.
Source: Forum.
January 10, 2010 • 8:19 pm 0
This from Dickson Seow, head of corporate communications at Google Southeast Asia, in response to media reports about 3G connectivity issues with the Nexus One.
For Singapore owners: For SingTel customers, the Nexus One should auto-connect to their 3G network. For Starhub and M1 customers, they will need to enter in their APN settings to connect to their 3G network.
1. Go to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names.
2. Hit Menu button, create new APN.
3. Enter new APN settings. See below for the details.
4. Hit Menu button, save settings.
5. Select the new APN name, then hit the home button. Your 3G connection will shortly appear in the top bar.
If users can’t find the answers they need, they can call the HTC Support line in Singapore at 1-800-238-7788 from 8am-8pm, Monday to Saturday. HTC is providing local support and repair services for Nexus One.
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For Starhub customers:
- name: Starhub Internet
- APN: shwapint
- username: [leave blank]
- password: [leave blank]
For M1 customers:
- name: M1 Internet
- APN: sunsurf
- username: 65
- password: user123
And in case it is not working for SingTel customers:
- name: SingTel Internet
- APN: internet
- username: 65IDEAS (or blank)
- password: IDEAS (or blank)
Filed under: medium, 3g, google, m1, nexusone, settings, singapore, singtel, starhub
January 8, 2010 • 5:29 am 7
Sending attachments via Gmail is pretty straightforward in Windows, but it’s not great if
Here’s how to make it easier.
Affixa is a small program that sits between you and Gmail, turning Gmail into the default email client for mailto: links (links on webpages that launch whatever is your Windows email program).
Affixa is relatively painless to install.
Now , for example, you can send a file straight from Microsoft Word via Gmail.
You can do the same thing right clicking on a file in Windows Explorer (or whatever it’s called in Windows Seven) and then selecting Send to/Mail recipient:
Affixa will alert you when the email is ready:
If you’re a drag and drop person, you can add files to Gmail using Affixa’s basket, a small app that sits in the system tray into which you can drag files, or groups of files.
When you’re done collecting the files, hit the email button at the bottom and Affixa adds them to an email:
That email is then put in your Gmail draft folder. (Be patient; this can take a while. Probably too long.)
Another option, if the files are all in the same folder, is to use a Firefox extension called dragdropupload which lets you drag multiple files straight into Gmail (and Facebook and Flickr).
Once the extension is installed, create a new Gmail email message and then drag the selected files into the light blue area around the Subject field.
You’ll know if you’re doing it right when the mouse turns to a thumbnail of the files with the number of files above it in blue:
I find this works more quickly than Affixa.
The basic version of Affixa is free; a more fully featured version costs £2 a year. The Firefox extension is free, but its author Sankazim welcomes donations via PayPal.
Filed under: hard, attachments, email, extension, files, firefox, gmail, windows
November 26, 2009 • 10:51 am 0
Google Talk is one of my favorite applications: it’s light, unobtrusive and you can store your old conversations in Gmail. But I realised I wasn’t using it as well as I could, so I looked for some keyboard shortcuts. Here’s a few:
CTRL + R Right align text
CTRL + E Center align text
CTRL + L Left align text
CTRL + 1 For single spaced lines
CTRL + 2 For double spaced lines
CTRL + 5 For 1.5 spaced lines
F9 Send an email to the contact you’re chatting with
F11 Start a voice chat with the contact
F12 Cancel the current call
ESC Close the current window
ALT + ESC Close all Google Talk windows
WINDOWS + Esc Open Google Talk if minimized, or behind other windows
Tab/CTRL+Tab/Ctrl+i Cycle through open windows
Shift+Tab Cycle backwards through open windows
Google Talk keyboard shortcuts
Shortcuts from Customize Talk
Filed under: easy, google, google talk, gtalk, keyboard, shortcut
November 20, 2009 • 1:04 pm 0
(For users of PersonalBrain only.)
I find the icons for websites (favicons, to be precise) very useful for making thoughts stand out:
But sometimes PersonalBrain either doesn’t get them or forgets them, defaulting back to the boring standard icon:
It took me way too long to figure this out, but you can easily refresh the stored icon.
Make the thought you want to refresh the active one.
Open the properties tab or right click on the thought and select Properties and Attachments:
Right click on the link and select Refresh URL icon:
You should see the old icon change to the website’s one:
This is the way it should be done
Filed under: medium, personalbrain
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