Wednesday, December 22, 2010

New features in Opera 11

  • Extensions allow you to add new functionality to Opera easily.
  • Tab stacking helps you keep your tabs organized.
  • Pinned tabs now take up less space and are neatly grouped to the left of your tabs.
  • Visual mouse gestures help you learn how to control Opera with mouse movements.
  • An enhanced address field makes it easy to stay safe on the Web.
  • Mail panel upgrades give you greater control over your email in Opera.
  • Search predictions from Google harness the power of Opera's integrated search.
  • A new bookmarks bar gives you easy access to your bookmarks and replaces the personal bar.
  • Speed improvements bring Opera ahead of other browsers in many benchmarks.
    HTML5 server-sent events and Web Sockets enhance Opera's support for new web standards.
  • Auto-update now makes sure you have the latest extensions and Opera Unite apps.
  • You can now set plug-ins to load only on demand to significantly speed up browsing.
  • Opera's installer is smaller and streamlined for a faster, easier installation.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Organize GMail for in-process, follow-up

With combination of features in GMail, we may organize mails for in-progress or follow-up tasks as following ideas.
  1. Tag & query
    • Use label(s) (see Smart-Terms blog) or define a certain type in super stars (such as orange-guillemet).
    • Then define either a section in multiple inboxes or a query in quick links.
  2. Use Tasks

Process
  • Set rule to yourself when to review these mails of in-progress/follow-up – regularly.
  • Once done, don’t forget to remove label/star or task off.
    • Further action may be to move/(re)label to done.
  • Should we retain mails of in-progress/follow-up in inbox or move off?
    • Ans: It depends on your concept whether pending mails in inbox means “not done/complete yet” or “not respond yet”.