by Sujoy on April 13, 2009
Innovation is thy name GMail. The new features to be introduced on GMail Labs this time are Sender Time Zone and Image insert in Mail. Let’s deal with them one by one.
1. Sender Time Zone:
In a livewire world where most users are using mail 24/7 and across the world, travelling across different time zones, time zone recognition for mail will definitely make life much easier. SO, the new feature on GMail : Sender Time Zone will do exactly that. It has two features:-
a) Show if it is the sender’s office hours currently (i.e. 9 am to 6 pm in the sender’s time zone)
b) On clicking details, it will show the Sender’s Time Zone, and when the mail was sent. [ via. GMail Blog]
2. Insert Image:
Lemme begin with Yayyyyy!!!! It sounds exactly like it is. You can now insert images in the post. No workaround required. Enable in Labs (Setting–> Labs) and voila. Users who trust your content can view them straight away, else, have to use the ‘Display Images Below’ setting to display the embedded images. Easy peasy!!! [ via GMail Blog]
by David on March 31, 2009
I was reinstalling my sisters PC the other day and I elected to backup her data onto a USB storage pen. We opted for an 8Gb stick in PC world, and I think we paid about £12. I noticed, when the device was plugged in, that the available data size was not the full 8Gb. Obviously, this is because in the data storage industry a Kilobyte is measured as 1000bytes, not 1024, as has been the practice ever since I bought my first HDD (which was a whopping 40Mb drive!)
But, when you think about it isn’t this a little short sighted considering the issue this generates as we begin to use larger and larger data sizes. For example, when this was applied to Kb and Mb the difference was far less in evidence, as we begin to use Terabytes, Petabytes and eventually Exabytes this disparity between the advertised size and the usable size also manifests itself exponentially. The end result is that my shiny new 8Gb USB memory stick has a usable capacity of only 7.59Gb :-\
Extending this example to an 8Exabyte storage device (which had a perfect 8,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of space) the usable area would only in fact be 6.94Xb ! I think people will start to think hang on I paid for 8 and i’m now only getting only 6.9 ???
(If you want the full excel sheet including the hidden Giga, Mega and Kilo columns please just drop me a mail)
I wonder when the Industry will adopt the true 1024 factored scaling as standard?…
by Sujoy on January 19, 2009
Sometimes a single picture is very well self-explanatory. Let this one speak for itself.
Image courtesy: Pixel Labs
by Sujoy on August 10, 2008
I found this picture of Facebook Poke on some website which I don’t remember. But it is surely worth a giggle.
Hopefully you all will enjoy this one. Have a blast!!
