Evernote

I was looking for something to share my notes, so that I could access them on web as well.

Someone gave me the idea to email the notes to myself, so I could get them whenever I wanted. But the idea didn't appealed to me.

Then I found evernote.

I was a bit skeptical about using it, but then, I became a fan within 3 days.

It lets you create, clip, and share notes on the web and see them everywhere. Using your phone, you can take snapshots, read to-do lists, record audio whenever and wherever you like. You can also search through all your notes, even find text within images, whether online or off. It's so powerful.

Have you used it or do you like some other alternative. Post it all in your comments.

How To Reduce My Body Weight

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How To Reduce My Body Weight

If you are like most, you are getting tired of endless dieting regimes with little or no results. The average person spends a great deal of time and money dieting throughout their lives, but for what? MOST DIETS SIMPLY DO NOT WORK!

Here are a few easy to follow tips that will help you reduce your body weight.

1. Eat good food

Eat vegetables, fruits and healthy snacks. Also, do not skip breakfast and eat more often in smaller portions.

If you eat smaller meals and eat the right foods, you can actually eat more and lose more weight! Sounds strange, but true!

2. Increase water intake

Water will aid to flush your system and help in the elimination of water weight as well. If you drink very little water, it is time to increase your water intake.

3. Exercise

A diet plan must be complemented with exercise plan. You could lift weights, do aerobics, yoga, or a simple walk! Make sure to add exercise gradually into your plan. Having an exercise partner will be helpful in sticking to your plan.

4. Rest is must

Make sure to get a good night's sleep. Eight hours is considered the proper amount of sleep for a healthy diet and exercise program.

Here's my favorite link:

Reduce My Body Weight

What is your favorite lens. Looking forward to your comments.

Google offers new fields for Gmail contacts, better importing

Google has added support for more contact fields (like birthday and website) for Gmail contacts and now store each of these fields separately. It makes syncing and round-tripping your data work better.

Google has updated the standalone contact manager with this improvement last month. It is now available in Gmail too, with support for Outlook, Outlook Express, Hotmail and Yahoo in CSV format, and OS X Address Book in vCard format, says Gmail blog post.

With all your contact info in Gmail, you can access it from anywhere, sync your contacts to your mobile phone or other devices, and more easily collaborate on Google Docs and invite people to Calendar events.

Windows 7 RC Now Available for Download

The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for all user. The RC will be available at least through July 2009, so you have plenty of time.

Microsoft says t RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you’ll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010.

To install and use the RC, you need a PC with these system requirements:

• 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

• 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

• 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)

• DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

The 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 RC are available in five languages: English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish. So take your pick. And do let us know your experience.

Google offers search right in Gmail

Google has introduced new Google Search experiment in Gmail Labs to let you search the web right within from your Gmail. When you turn this feature on from the Labs tab under Settings, you'll see a new search box on the left side of your inbox, like this:


Type your search in, and a window (like a chat window, but a bit bigger) appears at the bottom of your screen with the first few search results.


You can click on a search result and it'll open up in another window (or another tab) so you can make sure it's what you're looking for. Once you're sure it's a result you need, moving your mouse over the result back in Gmail reveals a pull-down menu that lets you do stuff with the search result.

What's in the menu depends on what you're doing in Gmail:

• If you're reading a message, you can start a reply to the message with the search result as the first thing in your reply.
• If you're writing a message, you can paste the result, or just the URL into your message.
• If you're chatting with someone, you can send the result via chat.
• You can also always compose a new message to send the search result.

If you have keyboard shortcuts turned on, typing g and then / will take you to the search box when you're not composing, and Ctrl + g will do it when you're composing (that's ⌘ + g for Mac users).

Read the complete post at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Google Search right in Gmail

Gmail offers extra emoticons in Labs

Feeling that entirety of human expression can not be captured in 19 just faces, Google has introduced a new Labs feature: extra emoji, the colorfully animated brainchild of their team in Japan.

Simply go to the Labs tab under Settings, enable "Extra Emoji," and have that glass of you've been dreaming about. Ask your in-laws about the fluffiness factor of their pet . Become a meteorologist and start predicting . Dance like you mean it

There are another couple hundred emoticons to choose from!

Read more at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Extra emoticons

Gmail Adds Suggested Recipients

Gmail Labs has introduced a new feature called "Suggest more recipients."

Once you've enabled it from the Labs tab under Settings, you'll see suggested recipients while composing messages. Gmail will suggest people you might want to include based on the groups of people you email most often. So if you always email your mom, dad, and sister together, and you start composing a message to your mom and dad, Gmail will suggest adding your sister. Enter at least two recipients and any suggestions will show up like this:


Click on a suggested name, and they'll get added to your email.

Another feature of Gmail to help us being lazy!!!

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Suggest more recipients

Inserting inline images in Gmail

If I wanted to insert an inline image in Gmail earlier, there were no straight options for me. There were a few workarounds, but I didn't liked them. Gmail finally listened to us . You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on "Inserting images" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar icon like this:



Make sure you're in rich formatting mode, or it won't show up. Click the little image icon, and you can insert images in two ways: by uploading image files from your computer or providing image URLs.

If you're sending mail to other Gmail users, they'll still have to click "Display images below" or "Always display images from ..." to see images you embed.

Read the complete post at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Inserting images.

Waiting for your feedback on this new feature.

New in Gmail Labs: Sender time zone

Gmail has introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs called Sender Time Zone. You can turn it on from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see green phone icons next to people who are probably awake and readily reachable (if it's between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm in the sender's local time zone) and red ones next to those who could be sleeping or out of the office:

Click "show details" and you can see when a message was sent in the sender's time zone as well as what time it is for them now:

Message headers always include the time sent and often include time zone info too.

Read the complete post at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Sender time zone

Gmail search made easier (and lazier)

Gmail has introduced a new experimental feature in Gmail Labs: Search Autocomplete, it helps in making search in Gmail easier.

You just need to turn on Search Autocomplete from the Labs tab under Gmail Settings, and you'll get suggestions as you type in the search box. One of the most popular searches in Gmail is for names or email addresses, so the first kind of suggestions you'll see are contacts. Some names are not easy to remember (my last name is an excellent example!) — with this new Labs feature you can just type a couple letters and select the desired contact from the drop down list. Easy and quick as that.



Gmail also offers a bunch of advanced search operators, which provide a powerful way to find that one message you have in mind. You can search in specific places (e.g. in chats or sent items), or search for messages with attachments of a certain type (e.g. docs or photos). With Search Autocomplete, I can just type "photos" or "pictures," select "has photos" from the drop down list (as in the screenshot below), and the search query (filename:(jpg OR png)) gets inserted for me. Similarly, you can type in the word "attachment" and Search Autocomplete will list the most common attachment types for you.



Read more at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Gmail search made easier (and lazier)