Google account's alternate email

Alternate email address that we've specified to Google/GMail account for password-recovery purpose, can also be used to signed in Google's services.

We cannot longer use it to create/sign-up another Google account; system will say: "There's already a Google Account associated with this email address. Please sign in; or, if you forgot your password, reset it now."

Pending features in new GDocs document editor

The new Google Docs graduates | Monday, June 14, 2010

..... Beginning today and rolling out over the next couple of weeks, all new documents will be created using the new documents editor. Docs already created using the older editor will remain there. We will be sharing more information on how to move those documents to the new version soon.

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Looking for these features to be maturely implemented before switching to new GDocs document editor.

1. TOC (table of contents)
• 6/w3) See it available but still so plain.
2. Footnote and comment: new UI looks better, but it doesn't fit XGA screen yet.
• Footnote is placed on the left and requires at least 1200-pixel wide to get displayed properly (horizontal scroll-bar can scroll right but not left!).  A reference is that currently netbook PCs standardise screen size to 1024x600.
3. Default font and size: can be set to other than Arial-11pt?
4. Table editing: rich features as previous version
5. Web clipboard: the capability to paste table from spreadsheet.
6. Support Thai language: currently it does not wrap text properly.

Know GMail more

• Although GMail copies whole history when reply, it rather assumes that we retain only necessary part relevant to latest corresponding.  That's why the copy is called "quoted text" and placed before ending signature.
• Given standard image sizes in GMail (small, medium, large, original) may not fit. But we can drag image boundary-handle to resize manually.
• Signature, as defined in Settings, will be coloured in gray when sent. 
• There may be a myth amonb beginners that  new recipient can see older mails in conversation thread, it is not true.
• Deleted mails are retained in trash for 30 days.  Therefore:-
  • Treat [Delete] as rather "pending deletion".  If we think a mail can be deleted if there's no issue after a while (i.e., 30 days), then we can delete it from day 1.
  • If we think a mail must be deleted now (e.g., for some private/confidential reason), we have to "double delete": go to Trash and [Delete forever] it again too.
• Apart from "Forward" function when you respond at the end of mail/thread, there's also another "Forward all (messsages of this thread)" function listed on the right.
• A useful function is "Recent conversations" (context menu when point to contact name: sender or chat) when we are going to call/talk to that person that it may recall a few more to discuss altogether with our tentative topic(s) in mind.

Lotus-Notes mail rule for auto-forwarded mail from GMail

When an email X is sent from A to B who uses GMail, and B sets filter to auto-forward to C; envelope-address of X will still show A as sender.  However, C cannot define mail rule that sender is A!

Reason
As X is coming from Internet (GMail), there will be field "SMTPOriginator".  And in this case the fields 'SMTPOriginator' = B and 'From' = A; and 'Sender' in mail rule will check field 'SMTPOriginator' instead: i.e., sender becomes B not A.

Time management matrix

Image via Wikipedia

of Stephen Covey's 7-Habits

Somewheres we can find the quadrant diagrammes

• Time management matrix: from Stephen Covey’s book “First Things First” - Paauwerfully Organized
  
• Two of charts - island94.org (Mar.05'10)
• How are you managing your time? - Psychology Today (May.25'08)