Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Ongoing Organization: Gmail Filters

Published on June 23, 2008 in Internet and Organization. 0 Comments

labels.pngI’ve been really inter­ested in orga­niz­ing all my email mes­sages. But I don’t really want to go through every sin­gle mes­sage to do that. Today I tried to make some fil­ters in Gmail to at least get some gen­eral organization.

First I attempted to get all money related emails into one place.
To do this I looked for all the email addresses of my banks, stu­dent loans, online buying/selling, that kind of stuff. At first I was get­ting every address, but I real­ized it would be much faster to grab whole domains. So this is what I did.
from:(@cems.wamu.com OR @ebay.com OR @amazon.com OR @wellsfargo.com OR @mint.com OR @checkout.google.com OR @paypal.com OR billing@dreamhost.com)

Then I wanted to try and orga­nize emails with attach­ments by file type.

For images
Has the words:(.jpg OR .jpeg OR .gif OR .png) has:attachment

For media
Has the words:(.avi OR .mov OR .mp3 OR .m4a) has:attachment
For doc­u­ments
Has the words:(.pdf OR .doc OR .docx OR .xls OR .xlsx OR .ppt OR .pptx OR .oo3) has:attachment

For design
Has the words:(.ai OR .psd OR .indd OR .qxd) has:attachment

The one prob­lem that I’ve run into so far with this is with PDFs. About half of the pdf emails are related design. This is also a prob­lem with Fire­works PNGs.

This is by no means com­plete. It is only a quick stab at email orga­ni­za­tion. Hence “ongo­ing.” If you have any ideas on how to improve this or any fil­ters you’ve set up that work well, comment.

I helped

Published on June 17, 2008 in Internet. 1 Comment

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Apple ♥ Enterprise

Published on June 9, 2008 in Internet. 1 Comment

promo_iphone_enterprise_20080609.jpg“For the first time, OS X includes native sup­port for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X appli­ca­tions Mail, iCal and Address Book, mak­ing it even eas­ier to inte­grate Macs into orga­ni­za­tions of any size.” — Snow Leop­ard Press Release (Taken down since I started this post.)

“It sup­ports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, deliv­er­ing push email, cal­en­dar, and con­tacts. And it gives mobile users secure access to cor­po­rate resources with Cisco IPSec VPN and wire­less net­work ser­vices with WPA2 Enter­prise and 802.1X authen­ti­ca­tion.” — iPhone Prod­uct Page

I bought this

Published on June 6, 2008 in Photo. 1 Comment

This guy just made my work life better in a big way.

  1. I can now lis­ten to things on my com­puter at work.
  2. So far I’ve lis­tened to a lot of This Amer­i­can Life.
  3. I had to catch up.
  4. Also, some of the Fists and Juice Team.
  5. I’m still wait­ing for some­one to install iTunes.
  6. I don’t have the permissions.
  7. What else can I lis­ten to that is streaming?
  8. Patrick sent me this song.
  9. Really good.
  10. Tomor­row is week 3 of being mar­ried.

3 things I learned about England

Published on June 3, 2008 in Beer and Rants. 4 Comments
  1. Eng­land has no good beer.
    Period. We had an IPA that tasted like noth­ing. Worst than noth­ing. It was gross. And Cask Ales? BAH!
  2. Eng­land loves Gill Sans.
    Gill Sans is the Hel­vetica of England.
  3. Eng­land has very good Indian food.
    While there I had the best Dosa of my life.