Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Hello Twitter

Already just signed up: "FtDg"

Instead of full name, abbreviation would be better for tweeting.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Computer display resolution

Dimensions are in X (horizontal) and Y (vertical) pixels. Aspect ratio is indicated in Y where specific, normally it is either 4:3 or 16:10 (wide).

Name

X

Y

Widescreen

X'

Y'

QVGA: quarter VGA
320
240



VGA: video graphics array
640
480



SVGA: super VGA
800
600



XGA: extended graphics array
1024
768
WXGA
1280
720 (16:9)
800 (16:10)
XGA+
1152
864
WXGA+
1440
900
SXVGA, Quad VGA
1280
960



SXGA: super XGA
1280
1024 (5:4)
WSXGA
1600
1024 (25:16)
SXGA+
1400
1050
WSXGA+
1680
same
UXGA: ultra XGA
1600
1200
WUXGA
1920
same


[reference: "Computer display standard" » file:"vector video standards2.svg"; Wikipedia]

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Gmail: Find archive-only messages

i.e., archived messages/conversations with no any other label assigned.

Terra Nomad: Gmail tip for finding archived items with no label
To find them, search this: "-label:inbox -label:blog -label:comp ..."
You have to add a -label:tag for each tag, so it can take a while to write. But bookmark it and you never have to write it again!


To update here when more is found...

Thursday, June 25, 2009

A way to open 2 Google accounts simultaneously

In case that we have one personal account and another one company account -- for example.

We can use multiple web browsers to separate accounts. But if we want to use only one such as Firefox. This method can be a solution:

Personal-account set
  • iGoogle: by this time it's not available to company account yet.
  • Gmail Notifier
Company-account set
  • Google Talk

Gmail Notifier and Google Talk call Gmail at different places despite of same "www.google.com/...", no matter company has set alias to another URL or not. And then from Gmail, each session links to within its own place for other services (Calendar, Docs, Sites).

Monday, May 25, 2009

How to locate link to each post in FriendFeed

FriendFeed does not provide link of each post right from typical page. Comparing with Blogger's link field: it links to embedded URL, when supplied, not the post itself.

To find the post's URL itself:
  1. At the post's actionable command line, select "Share". Its dialog pops up.
  2. Under "Share elsewhere" section, look at field: URL.

This is useful when we want to review comments/discussion, for example.