Please find my response inline in murky yellow and in a much cooler font

If you too frequently stretch your body from a cloth walled "Office" called the Cubicle, then you too, my friend, would be familiar with that one email that comes almost every day. Yes, the one you can't ignore for the sender is way up in the food chain. Yes, the one with multiple totally unnecessary questions and tasks. The one that would have you dig out even older emails. The one that would need you to churn out numbers faster than a Chinese calculator. Yeah that one.

 

Now I can't help you with all the blurb. May be I'll try. but not today. But I can share you one tip which will have you type out in-line diff colour responses with no effort that will have your work buddy say, 'Damn, you are a geek!' (Even though we all know that we aren't)

 

Anyways, Its simple. Type out your salutation. Yeah, think about using a cuss word.Its natural. But don't do it. That aint natural.  

 

Then

 

1) Please find my response in-line in blue

 

2) Please find my response inline in blue    - Format your blue this one time 

 

3) Please find my response inline in bl ue  -    Hit Space right between the blue

   

5) Please find my response inline in blue    -    Highlight the spaces and cut them out (Ctrl-X) - Now these spaces in your clipboard contain your "Format, color and Font" 

 

6) Paste them out wherever and go crazy.

 

Can you please explain if Shaq can walk the talk?

 Yeah, I just had the whole thing simulated on NBA 08. Phoenix wins just about every game from the All Star Break. The Playoffs were also a breeze. With the simulation, we now have the data that Phoenix will get its first ring. And yes, Shaq's hip did hold good. It even did a 'Hip Check' on Horry.

Do you really think this tip makes you more productive? 

 I think so. The analysis on the cost savings are still in progress and the results are likely to be incorrect since there is really no model / process that can measure the time savings that you are bound to waste checking news updates about Shaq anyway.

 

But I do think it gets rid of the boring part where I would have had to repeatedly select and change color.

 

So there you go. Something new eh?

Type G for Gmail

Set your browser's default search as Google and experience a whole new world of Goomains. Type Keywords like "Craigs PHX" directly on the Address bar to land on the desired page instead of taking the out-dated Ctrl-Enter route. (Note: This has been witnessed only in IE. I haven't tested it in Firefox. May be Vic will.)  

 

The Title Bar web search pretty much seems to have a toggle between Search (to return results) and "I'm feeling Lucky" (To re-direct to the top result) The over used internet buzz words like "yahoo" or even "buzz yahoo" directly take the scout to the landing page. The up-coming sites which still don't have enough Google respect like tidyupvictor.com (sniff sniff) only get listed as results.

 

Here is a list of GooMains that I found

 

G – http://www.gmail.com

Y – http://www.yahoomail.com/

Amex US - http://www.americanexpress.com/

B – https://www.bankofamerica.com/

Bofa - https://www.bankofamerica.com/

E – http://www.eonline.com/

T – http://www.att.com/

Adsense - https://www.google.com/adsense/

Analytics - http://www.google.com/analytics/

Maps - http://maps.google.com/

Docs - http://docs.google.com/

IMDB - http://imdb.com/

GOOG-411 tips

Have you tried Goog-411? It's Free, let's you reach that Pizza place and free. Did I mention it is free? (That's the biggest selling point for me. Yeah I am cheap)

There are a few pointers that you could use while trying Goog-411
 
• Tired of listening through the names and locations of Pizza Places' franchises that way across town? Drop in the name of the street too in the Business Name. The helpful operator (?!?!?) would fetch the location you wanted and only that. "Papajohns Thunderbird" does it for me every time.

• Add 1-800-GOOG-411 to your contacts. You will not regret it.

• With a GPS handy, you can use GOOG-411 for some on the fly change of plans. You can get the address of that IMAX in Grand Canyon, program your GPS, get your partner to start driving and then get connected to the nice lady at the theater so you could check the show timings.

Leave a voicemail to yourself to jog your memory

So let me paint a picture for you. There you are at 5 PM on a work day. You just finished one hectic day. You are pulling out of the Office Car Park wondering that it must have been one cold architect in New York who figured that, "Hey there is so much land in Phoenix, They don't need covered parking." And then due to some irrational connection that you made to New York, the Architect or his nose, you remember - You didn't send out that document as mentioned in the mental note that you had made during yesterday's game time. Surely you are not going to go back to the Office now? I mean - c'mon, It's never been done before. So instead are you going to red tag that note? We all know how that worked for you in the past. Be assured, you will remember it tomorrow - same time, same place.

So what do you do? I am glad you asked. Call yourself. No don't call yourself names. It happens to the best of us right? Now call your office number. Listen to yourself tell you that you will get back to yourself at the earliest. While you are at it, please notice that nasal twang. And yeah, by all means, make that mental note to change your message. Now did you hear the beep? That's your que to leave a voice mail. Tell yourself that you have been a very bad boy/girl... bad bad bad (Now may be that's a little far fetched) Just tell yourself that you ought to send out that document to whatshisname first thing. Hang up. Now where were we? Yeah - that cold architect. Would it have killed him to put a few shades out there?

Ofcourse check out that blinking light the next day at work. Send out that document. Do check your message. And go ahead. Make that mental note to greet yourself / tell a joke the next time you use this service.

And this works in a lot of ways. Leave a voicemail at home for Personal call reminders. When you have parked your car at the Venetian, call yourself and leave a message as to where you have parked it. That way you don't have to drag yourself around the entire parking garage looking for your Porsche Roadster. (No I don't own a Porsche but made you think that didn't I?)

So go ahead. Talk to yourself. It's cool. Just don't pick up a fight.

Window Logo Keyboard shortcuts to improve Productivity

When Johnny first saw a computer, the only mouse that was around used to wear a red coat and went by the first name of Mickey and every thing that he wanted the computer to do had to be typed in. 

Then the mouse was born. Soon Mankind began clicking their way to glory and when the click wheel was introduced, they began scrolling their way - well, at least to the end of the document.

Johnny did too, until he started noticing the distinctive differences between both of his arms. Something was wrong with his mouse arm (the right one). See Johnny can lift pretty much anything - but only with his left arm. With his right, he tended to drag and and more often than not, he dropped them if he did manage to lift something. (Poor Jane almost lost her toe the other day) 

So he saw this doctor who adviced him to lose the Mouse. "But I can't!", cried Johnny. Its the only way I can get my work done. How else can I browse to- er, a document? 

"Johhny, US-Americans are unable to locate the  Windows logo key because some of us don't have keyboards,but that's not the case with you. You can learn to do the same tasks - faster. Here is list of the most useful ones."

Windows Key + E - Opens Explorer.

Windows Key + F - Open search box.

Windows Key + D - Minimises all open windows to show the desktop and also reverses the effect the next
time.

Windows Key + L - Locks Windows. If you do not have a password associated with your user account, this will not prevent others users from accessing your account information.

Windows Key + M - Minimises all windows but does not reverse the effect when pressed again like Windows Key + D. Instead try Windows Key + Shift + M to do it.

Windows Key + R - Opens the Run Command Box. (once you use your keyboard more you'll need to use this run box more often)

Windows Key + F1 - Windows Help.

Windows Key + Tab - Toggle through task bar buttons.

Windows Key + Pause Break - Shows System properties.

Note: For a conclusive list, check the maker's site.

To subscribe to even more Keyboardism, Check out Launchy.

Get your Financial Snapshot with Bank of America My Portfolio

If you have an Bank of America online account, you can maintain your portfolio online at Bank of America. You can add all of your other accounts like American Express Credit Cards, Chase Savings accounts also.

It can be your one stop shop to manage your finances. You would be surprised. The actual net worth and your guesstimate could be way apart.

Now you don't have to break your head to figure out your worth.

Giveawayoftheday.com

"There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". And Yes! Nothing called as a free dinner either except of course, if your date picked up the tab. And there is definitely a thing called as Free Soda, but it would need you to prowl Conference rooms after the important folks have had their important lunch meetings. Not cool.

But there is free stuff everywhere on the net. I bet you have downloaded (ahem) your share. As a matter of fact I downloaded some few free stuff in only fishnet stockings but can it copy those songs from that game you play and love? No but the All media Grabber can. Too bad you were looking for something else on September 30th. And if you did wanted to record your skype calls, you could have with the Skype recorder (How creepy is that? But I didn't say that dear. Yes you DID say that. Hear this..) if you were around on September 27th.

And you could have got it for free when your neighbor (assuming he also needed it, isn't as cheap as you to forever want things not have it) bought it with real money he earned by weaseling through work.

What am I talking about you ask? Well, Giveawayoftheday.com gives one licensed software every day totally free. No strings attached and some strings detached. No you don't have to cancel within 30 days for it to be free. What's the detached string you ask? That's the only version you will be getting. No upgrades. But I guess its alright. I am still trying to figure out the difference between Windows 3.1 and Windows of the now. Nah I am kidding, the Minesweeper buttons are totally 3D now aren't they?

There is also this Game giveaway where they give away a full game, one every day. While I haven't seen a NFS (and don't expect to) they are pretty neat. Check' Em out.