Tips: Get Unlimited Gmail accounts with your one!

Most Gmail users will answer one! Rest will answer 2-3 or little more. But in reality, all Gmail users have infinite Gmail addresses even if they have registered for only one Gmail account!

All these addresses act as aliases to Gmail address you use and can be divided in three categories as explained below. At the end some smart tips are given to make use of these aliases to get more from your Gmail accounts!

So lets start with aliases now…

#1. googlemail.com alias

Every address@gmail.com have a alias address@googlemail.com by default.

#2. dot [.] alias

Gmail ignores dot [.] character in email address. Means all of the following are same…

123.4@gmail.com

1.2.3.4@gmail.com

#3. Plus [+] alias

Now first look at this example - 1234+test@gmail.com

Now this is also same as - 1234@gmail.com

Gmail ignores plus [+] character and anything after that in ID part!

#4. Combination of aliases

Yep, you can use above aliases in any possible combination.

Now you can create specific filters for specific 'To' email ids.It will categorize your emails.

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Release update: Notepad++ 4.8.1

Version 4.8.1 features bug-fixes and new tools and improvements. Most significantly, this version of Notepad++ fixes a bug in GUP which could cause system crashes. Anyone running Notepad++ 4.8.0 is strongly urged to upgrade to this release.

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Microsoft Launches UltimatePC.com...

Microsoft has provided an update for its Vista Ultimate plans. UltimatePC.com is a new website where Microsoft is hosting "blueprints" of the best PCs available and exactly what you can achieve with them. Although the domain name was transferred last October, Microsoft has only decided to make use of it now.

A small section of the site is "ultimate exclusives". According to Microsoft these are not replacing Ultimate Extras. The reason given for the poor amount of extras is the high amount of testing and quality required for them to ship. I would love to see Microsoft simply release powertoys like they did with XP. In Vista you are not even able to right click a picture and resize it quickly without using 3rd party software. Extras like the XP powertoys are similar to what people expect.

Windowsultimate.com will be directed to ultimatepc.com. Microsoft is teaming up with various partners to offer discounts to ultimate customers. It's not clear how they will ensure only ultimate customers have access to the discounts. One of the interesting discounts available is Stardock's Multiplicity Pro for only $29.95 .

Until Microsoft start providing a time line about Ultimate Extras this is little more than a marketing site with little benefit to those who have paid a premium price for a poker game and to play videos as desktop wallpapers. Hopefully the new site will provide a place for the ultimate team to communicate to the community its current and future plans.

Leave your comments about the site...

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Microsoft Office Live Workspace - publically available!

Microsoft Corp. today announced the public availability of Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta, the new Web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others. Office Live Workspace was among the first entries in the new wave of online services in Microsoft's software plus services vision previewed last fall.

Office Live Workspace is now available worldwide in English. People can sign up for free at http://workspace.officelive.com and will be granted immediate access to the service. Microsoft is also unveiling a number of new Office Live Workspace features, such as an activity panel, notifications, direct links and multifile upload.

"Today's announcement moves us further down the path of bringing a software plus services experience to people at home, work and school," said Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division. "By combining the rich client experience of Microsoft Office with flexible, intuitive service offerings, we're providing seamless computing experiences for our 500 million Office users worldwide."

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Microsoft + Nokia - Silverlight On Mobile Devices

The strategy to get its rich Internet app on cell phones is part of Microsoft's effort to make the browser plug-in a cross-platform, cross-browser product. Microsoft's bringing Silverlight to cell phones, partnering with Nokia to bring the rich Internet app browser plug-in to devices that use Nokia's popular S60 software platform. Nokia will also make Silverlight available on its Series 40 devices and its Internet Tablet devices, the companies are expected to announce Tuesday.

The strategy to get Silverlight on mobile devices -- and particularly on the Symbian OS -- is part of Microsoft's effort to make the browser plug-in a cross-platform, cross-browser product in order to get as much penetration as possible on the Web. The company is also working on a version of Silverlight for Windows Mobile, a beta version of which is due out soon.

Microsoft is coming from behind. Adobe has had a strong mobile presence for Flash for years. It has distribution agreements with 18 of the top 20 device manufacturers worldwide including Nokia, and according to Adobe, 450 million devices have been shipped so far with Flash Lite, which is a trimmed down version of Flash. That, of course, compares to zero for Microsoft. According to Adobe, Flash Lite has seen a 150% growth in the past year.

informationweek.com

YouTube to Improve Usage Metrics

Google's YouTube will soon give marketers more data about viewership of its videos, so that they have a better understanding of clips' reach and effectiveness at boosting brand awareness and sales. The online video site plans to make more granular metrics available in this year's second and third quarters, including data about the usage of YouTube videos that are embedded in external sites, said Brian Cusack, YouTube sales team manager.

"YouTube has enormous amounts of data, but not great reporting on that data yet," Cusack said during a keynote speech at the eRetailer Summit in Miami on Monday.

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Gajim : Jabber client can use multiple protocols!

Yes this is truth.
Gajim is the best jabber client i have seen. Ihave written many article on IM clients, because i have used all of them.

Miranda is good but UI is not good and too much configuration.

Pidgin is the best if they can provide single file (even per day is better) history log for chats and broadcasting message to multiple contacts.

Spark is good but eats all my memory.

Many others are there which lacks some things, so not mentioning all of them here.

Now i will talk regarding Gajim only. Basically it supports multiple jabber accounts. Yes,
you can use your local lan jabber, Google talk and any other account using jaber protocol.

I am using it for local lan and gtalk jabber. So i am running 3 accounts (2 are for gmail :) ).

Now the turn for steps of yahoo and msn support on gajim.

1. Make any of your jabber account working. Any one, your local or google talk.

2. Then discover services for other transports with your jabber server. If your local jabber server supports transports, its best.

3. gmail.com (for google talk) is not supporting any transports. so change server name in service discovery window to
'jabber.no' (for yahoo) and 'gajim.org' (for msn). I have used this way because jabber.no has some problem with msn transport.

4. Register with that transport with your specific account and all your contacts will be added in your account through which you have discovered the transport
(i.e if you used gmail.com account for discover then all contacts will be added in that account).

Done! Enjoy your chatting.

Some shortcuts to use with gajim

- Type name of contact for search in group.
- In chat window, clik Ctrl + H for history window, Ctrl +I for information of contact and in that info window click Alt +L to disable/enable logging for that contact.

Enjoy using it with most protocols with transports.
And if you want even more then you have to find other transport servers. or you have to use pidgin.
Keep in your mind that Transports still works even your port for specific protocol is banned because it connects through jabber port :)