The INBOX size is now exploding. GMail now offers almost 6.5 GB of Inbox space and well, 20 MB attachments. How cool is that!! But, I have been using GMail since, umm…end of 2004, and by now , I have almost 38% occupied. That is almost 2.6 GB. Pheww! A total of 3700 mails with no archives. I don’t know how much would the number touch once I start counting the archives as well. So, the basic problem faced by me is getting back to a mail sent to me by a friend, say ‘Mohit’ on a summer of 2005 and which had some attachment. I really don’t remember what he had on the Subject line and well, really have a faint idea that it was something good that he sent in the attachment. Perhaps a funny presentation or whatever. But how do I go about searching for it from the 3700 mails that I have. (For some that’s a very small number. I have friends who are almost touching the upperlimit with 10k mails and counting. Yes, they live on GMail). SO here’s how you search your Mails the easy way. GMail’s blog released some hack today , and I am sharing some from the treasure.
Yes, you guessed it right, Search Operators it is.
So if I’m searching a mail sent by Mohit, I would put in the search bar: from:Mohit. And if I know when he sent it, say in 2005. I could narrow down the search results by adding in 2005. So the search query would be – from:Mohit in 2005. However if you put “in 05″, you will get results of mails sent in 2005, as well as May of any year, or the 5th of any month of any year.
For searching for mails having attachments, the search query to add is ‘has:attachments’. And like any Google search engine query, it can be appended. e.g. from:Mohit in 2005 has:attachments.
If you had labeled a mail sent by a friend, you can search by searching for,”from:mohit label:flickr” etc. The same works for Subject as well. And if you really are into finding SPECIFIC stuff, you can add conditions like from and to dates, and/or conditions etc.And yes, the Show Search options on the right of the search bar is for those who find using operators a bit on the wild side.
Happy GMailing. Adios!
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Open up today’s Techmeme and you will see this splashed across almost throughout the entire page. Because this is HUGE news. Microsoft has withdrawn its plans for buying out Yahoo, more popularly known as Microhoo in the speculative blogosphere. So what does it mean finally for us?
Does it mean that we can actually breathe a sigh of relief before some other giant (Google) makes the next move? Or has Yahoo got some other plans up its sleeve? Almost 3 months after the initial speculations of Microsoft’s plan of acquisition of Yahoo, and almost a 16 billion $ increase in market value, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer released his statement that it was withdrawing its offer of acquiring Yahoo. And now that the beans have been spilled, speculations are making the rounds.
Of course, most of them surround the Big Goog tying up with Yahoo to do things OpenSource. Also under the radar is the question of how Yahoo’s shares would turn out on Monday when the markets open. And unless there is a huge miracle, the stock-prices are expected to decline drastically. And well, as Techcrunch states in their post here, if Yahoo tanks badly, Microsoft can even be back with a lower bid. Hmm, so we just can’t count out Microsoft out as yet.
Indexed below are the sites which have covered the entire chapter from every possible angle and every possible aspect.
Yahoo Responds: “The distraction of Microsoft’s unsolicited proposal now behind us”
Breaking: Microsoft Corporation Rescinds Offer For Yahoo Inc
Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!
Yahoo! Issues Statement in Response to Microsoft
Guessing Yahoo’s Opening Stock Price
OK, so what’s Microsoft’s plan B?
Email From Steve Ballmer To All Microsoft Employees
Ballmer to Yang: How stupid are you?
YHOO and MSFT: Jerry Yang should be fired
So what’s new about this. Nothing actually, only it’s faster. GMail Blog has put up the details. But anyway, I am gonna tell you exactly the same. And may be a bit more as well. Remember the old days when a friend added you on Gtalk and his Email ID used to show on the chat panel, and you always ended up in a confusion as to who is this guy. Especially when you have friends like mine with usernames like havoccreatorxx, or headbanger_allnite, et al. And what did you do to avoid this? You went to the contact list, searched for the name, and then edited the information, and then saved it. And come back to your inbox to what you were doing. Not any more.
All you need to do now, is to just do a mouse-over on the name/email id you want to edit on the chat panel, just click on the name when the info pops up, and you are ready to edit , on the fly. A big time-saver, ain’t it? And, oh just to make sure, it is only for the new version of the GMail (for Firefox, Flock and IE7 ie). So all you IE 6 users, (whom I prefer calling loohoo..saahaars), STAY BEHIND.
Image courtesy: GMail Blog.
