When a quick analysis of the contents of a Windows folder is necessary, navigate to that folder using Firefox. Firefox will show an html page with a directory index.
Copy the page content into Excel, and the data can then be manipulated, for instance sorted by date or included in a Pivot Table.
The same can be done from a list of e-mails in Outlook to Excel.
http://www.agilemodeling.com
Provides a great simple reference to process modeling with key themes and examples. The specialist can dig deeper into UML, and the beginner can quickly grasp essential concepts.
This new mail client, based on Outlook Express, delivers more simplicity than its descriptive but uninspiring name (will the next Excel be called “Windows Live Spreadsheet Desktop”?)
At first sight, the program seems completely new, with a UI inspired by Vista and those soft, rounded edges… In reality, the foundation is clearly Outlook Express, as any visit to the options or the menus will show. Support for IMAP is improved (goodbye, “Purge”), although still wobbly (slow interaction with subfolders). Spellcheck is inline, and ads are back, something that Outlook Express lost long ago.
The UI is promising, but there’s a lack of visual contrast between the four vertical panes (shortcuts, list of messages, preview and ads), and between the different accounts in the shortcuts.
Hotmail/Livemail support is similar to Outlook Express – solid, but without support for the newer features in Hotmail, such as junk management.
Gmail support is claimed, but this relies on Gmail’s POP support. Nothing impressive there (the program started downloading two years worth of Gmail messages, which was not my intention.)
It appears that this client can import messages from PST, but not access a PST folder in the way that Outlook can
If anyone was wondering why the next version of Office for the home won’t include Outlook – here’s why. Microsoft is brewing a new desktop mail client called Live Mail Desktop.
Now if it natively and quickly handles PST archives, I’m leaving Outlook!
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=32608&hl=en
Finally, Google acknowledges that even with constantly growing storage, there are e-mails that are obviously not worth keeping, and we can now delete them easily.
Thank you!
Google’s just given me an extra 6 months of Norton, so I gladly installed the Google Pack, since most of its contents were already on my computers. The more puzzling is the screen saver – unless I’m mistaken, there isn’t anything here that’s earth shattering. I wish for a strong integration with Picasa.
Bigthisle comments on how to use Google’s translation service as a free proxy: Google free proxy!
Another method is to use Google’s mobile phone gateway and compressor. The page format is lost, but the content maintained:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=www.oreilly.com
(insert your own URL after the u parameter)
See Bigthisles’ post on Google Mobile:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/4807
Why do so-called Web 2.0 sites all look like they came from the same style school? This came to mind as I was reviewing some of the entries in the Solutionwatch blog.
The evidence:
1. Zurpy
2. Flock
3. Ning
4. del.icio.us
5. Flickr
6. Even Microsoft…
My top candidate reasons:
1. All Web 2.0 sites/projects/users are controlled by Google, and they’re all using the style sheet they get from the mother ship
2. Allright, Microsoft doesn’t belong to Google yet, so all these other sites are run by great developers with bright ideas, but are too cheap to hire a designer, so they just copy each other.
3. We’re headed for a world where everything is so meshed-up that sites become indistinguishable and blandness rules the day.
What do you think?
For once, let’s talk about the usual application of the term “web analytics”: the analysis of web site traffic data. If the web site you’re analyzing is your own, and you have access to its traffic data, understanding how your site is used and visited is essential. Since this is turning into a platitude, and the topic is exhaustively documented, here are the two most appealing tool options for this task:
PDA Browser Spoofing
One effective technique for basic PDA smoke testing is to use browser spoofing, in effect making a desktop browser lie about its identity to the server and thereby requesting a PDA version of a page.
Spoofing Advantages & Disadvantages
Spoofing is useful to look at pages and track basic functionality, but it is not subsitute for device or emulator testing, becaus spoofing will not necessarily render the page as intended for the target device.
On the other hand, spoofing has its advantages:
How to spoof using Firefox