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31 Oct 09 How Can I Preview Attachments in Gmail

I once used Rediffmail for mails, and before that it was Hotmail, but since 2004, I, like many others, am using Gmail. In the initial days Gmail was just like another mail, and what drove people to Gmail was Google’s promise and unlimited space.

That was it, but then came the lab feature which changed the game of e- mailing. Gmail became a system, and it started providing one-stop solution for many a thing. The latest addition to the list of Gmail lab feature is Google Docs preview.

Google has made it possible for us to preview content of Google Docs document, spreadsheet, and presentation files inside the mail. This feature is new addition and to enable this feature you need to go to setting and then to lab.

Once in the lab, you should enable previews for other content type as well. Google allows you to preview YouTube videos, Picasa and Flickr images within the mail itself. You can even preview Yelp listing inside your Gmail.

You can also listen to the voice mails that you received from inside your mail. There are many more features in the Gmail labs that are worth enabling. I have been using it for quite some time now.

It is only when you used Gmail lab features that you come to know that Gmail is much more than unlimited space. Unlike every other mail, Gmail is not just a mail, but it’s a system that has many cool features.

Go now and enable features in lab and witness the change in the mailing experience. You will be as thrilled as I am about the cool features of Gmail.

Tags: Attachments, Content Type, , , , , Lab Features, Latest Addition, , New Addition, , Picasa, Presentation Files, Preview Content, Rediffmail, Spreadsheet, Stop Solution, Videos, Voice Mails, Yelp

11 Sep 09 Why to Write a Press Release for Web

Why to write a press release for web if we can publish stories about our company directly in the media section of our website? This might come to your mind, if you are not aware of the three-fold importance of submitting a press release on the web-based news wire services.

Importance of a press release

Press release helps our website in three ways:

  • It helps us inform the stake holders about the recent development in our website by setting the news out.
  • It helps us get back links to our website.
  • And the third benefit of a press release is the massive one. A press release helps us get more traffic.

A well written press release will get picked by many news publishing sites operating in your niche, which not only will give you a backlink each to your website, but it will send a constant flow of traffic as well.

SEO benefit of a press release

Everything that gets posted on the Internet can be optimized for better ranking in major search engines. Be it articles, stories, poems, videos, podcasts, images, or even a press release. Unlike the press releases written for print medium, the press release written for web is technically optimized to help the company in question get some mileage in terms of the search engine juices.

How to optimize a press release

As usual start with doing a keyword research for your niche and use it as early as you can in the first paragraph of the press release. Use the main keyword in the title of the press release as well. You should not use more than three links in the body of the press release. I will suggest using 2 links, each at a distance of at least 100 words from each other.

Tags: Backlink, , , Juices, Keyword Research, Major Search Engines, Mileage, News Publishing, News Wire, , , , , , , , Stake Holders, Three Ways, , Web Based News

03 Apr 09 Is 3DTV Going To Replace Your High Def?

Now that HDTV has officially taken over, to the point that practically any income can find an affordable screen to meet their needs, I guess the industry is trying to push the next big thing.  Likely only to try and get you to buy something overpriced and impractical, like most new technology.  And now Samsung is no different, as the company plans to launch the first HDTV that’s also fully 3D.  By projecting two images, one from the left of the screen and another from the right, and with the use of special 3D goggles, Samsung’s new plasma offers a practically three dimensional experience.  Or at least it’s supposed to feel like one.

The only problem is initial reports have it that the ‘3D’ experience falls far short of anything that could possibly replicate true three dimensional filmmaking.

By now we’ve all seen at least one movie in the theater that features 3D, and usually it’s pretty cool, and most of the time you feel as though the images on the screen actually are three dimensional.  But the problem with Samsung’s plasma screen, is that they are using content that wasn’t meant to be seen 3D, opposed to a film that’s specifically shot for such a purpose.  Therefore most people describe the experience as being unintentionally nauseating.  And considering how long the world took to embrace HD, I don’t think jumping into the 3D realm right away is a good idea.

But then the 3D revolution is always being talked about with television and films, where every few years the reports start about new jumps in 3D technology that will make 3D TV in your home the standard, but I fail to see a time when that’s actually going to work the way companies like Samsung hype.

Maybe when the day comes where your television will actually project a 3D hologram?  Opposed to having to put on special 3D glasses just to watch TV.

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