Exciting Times at BnA

Posted on January 29, 2008 in Work | Leave a Comment

We’ve got a ton of stuff happening at the BootsnAll office in Portland. Lots of development things going on, launching some new websites and stuff like that. Here’s a few of my favorite things that have come up lately:

• Insiders - kind of like Yahoo answers, but for travel only. If you have a question about something travel related, here’s a great place to ask it. Also in turn, if you have lots of knowledge then here’s a great place to share it.
• Daved, who writes for the Costa Rica site is moving to Costa Rica, so this means I should have a free place to stay when I visit, and that the site is going to get kicked into high gear!
• Jessie, the Italy Logue writer is heading to Italy, to research moving there.
• Donovan is putting together some really awesome adventure trips, like this one to cycle in Thailand.

How to Search the Spam Folder in Gmail

Posted on January 9, 2008 in Tech | Leave a Comment

For quite some time I couldn’t figure out how to search through the spam folder in gmail (and google apps mail) unless your search found no results in the other folders. Well, it’s actually really simple now that I figured it out. Sure, I could have read the instructions but that takes the fun out of it, and it wasn’t all that important anyway.

Here’s how to search through your spam folder in gmail - it also works in google apps mail.

In the search box, type your search like you normally would, just ad “in:spam” to the end of it. So if you were to search for “password” and wanted to search just the spam folder for a password recovery email or something similar, type “password in:spam” without the quotes, of course. You can also reverse it, if you wanted to because that’s the logic that works with your brain, so try “in:spam password” and it does the same thing.

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