It happens to all of us – you send an email to someone telling that you’re attaching a file, but by the end of email you forget to actually attach it and press on send button. Most of the time you’re not even aware of it until the recipient points out it to you and then you send the follow up email with something like “… and now with the attached file 
”.
I’ve been using Gmail for few years now and I absolutely love it – fast, simple and useful. I can access it from anywhere I need and want. They’ve added a new feature a while ago called “Forgotten Attachment Detector”. And it saved me again few days ago: I was sending an email to my client mentioning the attached document and as always I pressed the Send button and a nice message popped up notifying me that I haven’t attached any file yet. That was wonderful. I felt joyful – as if it saved me from something unpleasant.
Google labs
This feature can be added to your Gmail account easily and most important it’s for free. In addition it works in all the popular browsers. No need to install anything and it works from anywhere you access your email.
How to enable it
Navigate to the Settings section of you account. Click on the Labs tab. You will be presented with a long list of available features that you can enable. This one is called “Forgotten Attachment Detector”. Just select the Enable option and press on the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.
How to use
Click on the “Compose Mail” link and at the body of the new message type something like “attached is …”. Click on the Send button and you will be presented with the following message: “It seems that you might have forgotten to attach files. Send this message without attachments ?”.
I believe that it’s a very nice addition to the mail system. What do you think about it ?
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Recently I’ve purchased the HP 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor
and I absolutely love it.
I’ve plugged it to my ThinkPad X61
and the process of connecting was very simple and straightforward.
To set up the appearance of your displays perform the following steps:
- Right click on mouse on any empty area of the desktop
- From the menu list choose the Screen Resolution option (see below)
Alternatively you can navigate to Control Panel –> Appearance and Personalization –> Adjust Screen Resolution.
Ether way you will end up in the following window.
Display
List all available and detected monitors
Resolution
Provides you with a very cool slider to adjust preferred screen resolution. It also shows the recommended and optimal settings for your monitors.
Orientation
You can choose between Landscape and Portrait (and Flipped version for each one).
Multiple displays
You can duplicate, extend or choose to display only on one specific monitor.
I’ve decided to extend my desktop on both monitors. The main desktop area (with the taskbar) will be shown on the big monitor and the rest will be extended to the laptop screen. However I’ve tried to find out how to specify the location of the monitors relatively to each other – whether my laptop located on the right or the left side of the big monitor. This is important and convenient way to use mouse when you move windows to the secondary extended monitor – it feels more natural. For example, if your laptop is on the right side of your monitor so it will be more natural to move window to your right side and vice versa.
Windows 7 let’s you adjust this option and even more !
At the window above, you can drag any monitor and drop at the exact location relatively to another one. Not only you can set the sides of both displays (which one is at right or left side) but also the vertical position of each one. For example, my laptop is located a little bit below the main monitor so I’ve used the above window to let Windows know its approximate location. I guess this setting is used later when you move windows to the extended area and it will be shown in a more accurate and precise way.
I’ve been using Windows 7 since it’s early release and I’m very pleased to see all these improvements and features.
A couple of days ago I’ve received an invitation to download and install the technical preview of the upcoming Microsoft Office 2010. I was so surprised and pleased to see that there’s a 64 bit version of the product (and I’m running 64 bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate RC).
Installation
When I tried to install it a message appeared informing me that I had to remove other versions of Office. Since I was too excited to try the new release I’ve uninstalled the current Office installation (Office 2007). After that the installation process was pretty quick and smooth.
Word 2010
After a quick reboot I went directly to Word 2010 and opened some existing documents to experience new features. The splash screen was absolutely beautiful and the program load was very fast. I wasn’t looking for new stuff – I just wanted to work as I usually do and to see if my experience would change/improve.
I loved the new ribbon design – very clean, nice colors – simple and yet powerful.
Insert – Screenshot
I wanted to insert a picture to my current document and that’s when I’ve stumbled upon it at Insert tab – menu item named Screenshot. When I’ve clicked on it I was presented with a list of images each of which represented a screenshot of currently opened programs (Task manager for some reason was not in that list). That was very cool ! In addition there was a button named Screen Clipping and when you click on it – it allows you to select any area of the screen and the result is automatically inserted as an image object to the document.
The following screen is presented when you click on the Screenshot button above.
Picture Tools
A very impressive and features rich tab named Picture Tools appears when you click on any image. It’s not a new tab but I can see that it includes a lot of small features that enrich the image editing experience.
Technical Preview
Since this is still an early release of the product I truly hope that this nice feature will be available in final release as well.
