Gmail adds undo-send-email in labs
How many times have you sent an email message and immediately wished you didn't?
Gmail has added a feature that people have been requesting for ages. If you enable the feature (in labs), it adds a 5 second delay to your emails being sent. During the delay, you have the option to undo the email being sent (Awesomeness).
I have to wonder how long it's going to be before other webmail services copy this feature.
Flickr adds live-search to contact list
I remember asking them for this, and now they've implemented it. Definitely helps with finding contacts instead of having to browse through pages and pages of people.
Sweet!
Richard St. John’s 8 secrets to success
Available at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html
Summary of talk
- Passion: If you love doing something, the money will come naturally
- Work: Nothing comes easy. But have fun.
- Good: Get good at what you do, practice.
- Focus: Focus on one thing.
- Push: Push physically, push mentally, fight shyness, fight self-doubt, push yourself.
- Serve: Provide something people will assign a value to.
- Ideas:
- Listen
- Observe
- Be curious
- Ask questions
- Solve problems
- Make connections
- Persist: Persist through "CRAP":
- Criticism
- Rejection
- A**holes
- Pressure
Gmail introduces custom themes (awesome)
Gmail has added the ability to edit your own custom theme-colours. Click on settings -> themes -> "Choose your own colors" which then opens a window where you can edit colours. The changes can be saved and seen immediately.
Example:
Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) – First Impressions
Turns out that fishy-wallpaper really is the best pre-loaded wallpaper Windows 7 has.
But on a serious note - it lives up to all the hype. I'm already very impressed but still have to do more tests.
Finding new photos on Flickr (almost effortlessly)
There are multiple ways of finding/exploring/discovering new great photos on Flickr - joining interesting groups, adding tons of contacts, or visiting Flickr-Explore.
I feel like Flickr-Explore has the same people in it all the time (with exceptions here-and-there). Basically, if you're a Flickr celebrity and have a couple thousand people following your photos, you stand a good chance of getting a photo of your "cute" cat or a "artistic" white-wall on Explore.
There are lots of little-known users that have great photos. One way I try to find these people is by looking at what people are "Fave"-ing. You can dig even deeper by picking a couple of those faves, then looking at their personal faves, and so-on.
While doing this the other day, I noticed that Flickr allows you to subscribe to someone's fave-feed. First browse to the user's favorites:
Then click on the feed link below the faves:
Next, subscribe to the feed in an RSS reader (like Google Reader, Netvibes or Outlook)
If you subscribe to a couple of these feeds, you'll have other people doing the hard-work of finding photos for you. This works especially well if you subscribe to people that are on Flickr all the time, but Fave photos relatively selectively.
Yes, it is a lazy approach - but it's just another way of making the most out of Flickr.
Gmail adds themes
The Gmail team have started rolling out theme-functionality. They haven't rolled it out to all users yet, but everyone should have it in a few days.
Go to 'Settings' -> 'Themes', and you'll be able to select a predefined theme.
If you're happy with the default theme - even that has been improved and tweaked slightly. You can also try out the old-school, terminal-style Gmail theme.
Sweet!