This is just a little tip I figured out last week which has come in really handy for me several times, so I thought I’d share it.
For those of you that use GMail – ever had to search for a message that you know is there somewhere, but you’re not sure where exactly? This happens all the time for me, with my horrible memory… Anyway, most of the time when just typing my search term in the search box, I get lots of results — mostly crap from my Junk E-Mail folder.
So here’s how to filter that out:
<your search term here> -label:junk-e-mail
Say for example you’re looking for your student ID, like I just was, because you never remember it and the stupid website you need to log into prevents your browser from remembering it as well. (yeah I know there’s a “fix” for this but I’ll get to that later lol). Here’s what I searched on:
dcccd -label:junk-e-mail
Bingo! There’s my student ID on the first page of results, whereas I would have had to wade through page after page of junk mail looking for it otherwise.
If you care how it works… the - just means to exclude something, so combining that with label:junk-e-mail tells it to exclude items with the “Junk E-Mail” label applied (notice you substitue a hyphen for spaces).
Now to star that sucker…
There’s loads of additional google search info here.
I decided it was time for a change – so please bear with me while I get settled in my new theme. I’m adapting this one with some of the features I liked from the old one (like the tabbed thingy over to the right) — and I’m no php/css/html guru. This may take me a while. ;-)
It’s not often that I get as excited about a TV show as I have about this one: Being Human. Here’s a quick description from the show’s website:
Being Human, a BBC AMERICA co-production, is a witty and extraordinary look into the lives of three twenty-somethings and their secret double-lives – as a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost. They struggle to live normal lives, despite their strange and dark secrets.
George (Russell Tovey) and Mitchell (Aidan Turner) work in anonymous drudgery as hospital porters in Bristol, England. They lead lives of quiet desperation under the burden of a terrible secret – Mitchell’s a vampire and George a werewolf. Deciding to start life afresh and leave behind the dark side, they move into a house, only to find that Annie (Lenora Crichlow), the ghost of a woman killed in mysterious circumstances, haunts it. As the monster threesome deal with the challenges of their new life together, they’re united in their desire to blend in with their human neighbors.
But with unwelcome intruders into their world, a threatened revolution from the vampire underworld, constant threats of exposure, and the day-to-day issues faced by young people – the only thing they may be able to rely on is each other.
If you have BBC and enjoy supernatural stuff, this is a must see! Heck, even if you don’t normally enjoy supernatural themed stuff the characters in this one will grab you — I’m pretty sure you’ll love it. :)
They can’t get season two on the air fast enough!!
I took the plunge and installed Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 1 tonight. Actually beta 4 was the only one available for download (here) but after installing I went to Help | Check for updates, and it downloaded/installed the RC.
This is the version info it’s reporting: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090615 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Before installing I did some research to see which extensions (addons) would be compatible after upgrading. Many of them supposedly supported the latest versions of Firefox, but in reality some did not. I thought I’d share my findings in case it might help somebody else… so here’s a list of the extensions I have installed on my PC, version info, and 3.5 compatibility:
Extension
Version
3.5?
Adblock Plus
1.0.2
yes
Better Gmail 2
0.8.1
no
Better Greader
0.6.1
no
Customize Google
0.76
no
Fasterfox Lite
3.1.1
yes
Firebug
1.4.0b2
yes
Forecastbar Enhanced
0.9.6
yes
Google Gears
0.5.21.0
no
Googlebar Lite
4.6.9
yes
Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant
1.0
no
Paste and Go 3
1.0.2
yes
PDF Download
2.2.0.2
yes
Tab Mix Plus
0.3.7.4pre.090516
yes
I’ve only had it installed long enough to discover these incompatibilities… I’m sure I’ll be able to find some dev versions of the extensions, like the one for TMP.
The final version should be released sometime this month.
UPDATE: I’ve found compatible versions of Paste and Go (v3 instead of the previously listed v2) and Fasterfox Lite, and have updated the table above accordingly.
“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
