I really like the new priority inbox feature in gmail/google apps, but am I the only one so far that is having wrong counts? Or maybe I’m just not following how it is supposed to count them.
Take a look:
The label shows 5 unread messages, but the “Important and unread” area says it has 8. I counted them and there are 8 for sure. While I am writing this it changed so the label says 10 and “Important and unread” shows 13 with 13 real messages.
So what’s up with the label number being off?
Google labs have released “Mail Googles” in order to make you think about the email you’re going to send before sending it, but only when you’re sending this within the hours you pre-select.
You can read more about this completely asinine labs project on the Gmail blog should you have a desire to.
Finally, after looking forever for a way to do over-the-air sync between Gmail for contacts & calendar with my Windows Mobile powered phone, I have found a solution. Well, 2 solutions to be exact.
- Free Option: NuevaSync.com appears to be a new start-up that does just this. It also works with the iPhone and iPod touch apparently, although I don’t have either to test with. It uses the pre-installed ActiveSync so there’s nothing additional to be installed, and can run immediately when configured. I’ve had limited success with actual sync, with issues that mostly appear to be caused by time-outs while sync is happening. I find that 3-4 attempts usually results in one successful sync, although a few times it’s taken more than that. So for people that don’t need instant, mission-critical sync this is an option. Some of the benefits are that you can sync with any calendar that you have read&write access to, but I have yet to figure out how to select which calendar to write to when adding on my mobile. It appears to go directly into my primary every time. Their status tools are good and the browsing is super light weight, and appears to be mobile friendly so you can set this up from your mobile device if you wanted to.
- Paid Option: GooSync.com has a free option, but it’s quite limited. Their paid option is £19.95 per year and appears to add a few more features that the above NuevaSync. I used their free option for a while, and the sync speed was rather slow for me, and I wasn’t crazy about their program that you had to install. It won’t let you schedule sync when you’re on the free version, and the program is a little clunky. It always worked fine, so I would think that someone who had more of a need to sync routinely would be happier with this service than the one above.
Anyone else have other suggestions how to sync calendar and contacts between Gmail and Windows Mobile?
I gotta admit, Google’s Chrome browser looks really cool, and is quite responsive… most of the time.
When I use firefox, I limit it to 75 Meg. of memory usage so it doesn’t kill my computer in case something starts getting out of whack. I don’t know if there’s a way to do this in Chrome – maybe? Anyway, today I’ve been using both FF and Chrome with heavy preference to Chrome. I’ve been trying to use it in almost every way I normally use FF. Occasionally something depends on a plugin I have in FF so I gotta boot that up too.
While doing this, I noticed that my computer – not so much the browser – is slow enough in other tasks to notice it. Say, booting up Photoshop. That takes a bit of extra effort with a minor ‘hang’ in there too. That’s not all – MS Excel, Word and others behave about the same.
Then I check out the task manager:
Looks like Chrome is eating up a healthy total 239,276 K of memory when you combine all the processes. It is SLOWING DOWN my computer, but the browser is still nice and speedy. Add a few more tabs, even it starts to slow down and take a while for screens to render when switching between already open sites in different windows or tabs.
Now, this is after an extensive 1/2 day of using it, but Firefox hasn’t behaved like this for me – ever. Verdict: Chrome is good, but not yet perfected… obviously.
Anyone have any suggestions on capping memory usage?