2026 1

Using Gemini to create slides

On Friday, our data & analytics client-facing teams connected Gemini to their Drive and Email: Open Gemini Make sure you see a “Pro” icon on the top right. (Some already had access. Some enabled it by clicking stuff.) Go to Settings & help > Connected apps. Turn on “Google Workspace” and approve access. Select “Pro” as the model (instead of “Fast” or “Thinking”). Then they ran this a prompt like this: Go through my Google Drive and find out what are the recent sales proposals we’ve picthed or new clients we’ve won. ...

2011 1

Software update

Time for the annual update on software I use. This time, I’ve got Wakoopa to help me with the relative usage as well. Here’s the top 100 software / web apps I’ve used recently, and how long I spent on them. Gmail 186361 seconds Notepad++ 130641 seconds Google Chrome 79879 seconds GitHub 43780 seconds Windows Command Prompt 40967 seconds Microsoft Excel 32578 seconds Microsoft Word 27067 seconds Microsoft PowerPoint 27059 seconds Windows Explorer 20902 seconds Google Docs 17989 seconds Foxit Reader 17001 seconds Microsoft Outlook 15855 seconds Internet Explorer 15830 seconds Google Search 15616 seconds Skype 14423 seconds Media Player Classic 14159 seconds Google Groups 7061 seconds Google Calendar 5531 seconds Wesabe 2814 seconds Google Analytics 2665 seconds TeamViewer 1985 seconds RGui 1875 seconds LinkedIn 1528 seconds YouTube 1400 seconds Stack Overflow 1167 seconds Acrobat Connect 964 seconds Kongregate 914 seconds HTML Help 871 seconds PicPick 790 seconds Zoundry Raven 684 seconds Mockingbird 657 seconds Twitter 655 seconds iStockphoto 590 seconds 7-Zip 584 seconds Buzznet 552 seconds Inkscape 516 seconds Bitbucket 499 seconds Microsoft Visio 496 seconds Paint.NET 474 seconds IrfanView 461 seconds Tableau Public 436 seconds µTorrent 435 seconds HandBrake 422 seconds Check Point Endpoint Security 411 seconds Windows Task Manager 385 seconds Microsoft Project 372 seconds IETester 347 seconds Google Maps 340 seconds eBay 310 seconds Spokn 270 seconds Firefox 269 seconds Google Calendar Sync 259 seconds Windows Calculator 247 seconds PayPal 246 seconds JsonView 220 seconds Windows Live Writer 184 seconds Junction Link Magic 152 seconds WinDirStat 142 seconds Kindle 139 seconds XAMPP 127 seconds Wakoopa 105 seconds Dropbox 100 seconds Office Help Viewer 99 seconds PrimoPDF 94 seconds PuTTY 84 seconds Python 80 seconds Flavors.me 75 seconds Google Sites 71 seconds Process Explorer 70 seconds Windows Volume Control 63 seconds Wikipedia 58 seconds Nitro PDF Reader 57 seconds Management Console 47 seconds PythonWin 45 seconds Windows Based Script Host 45 seconds WinDiff 45 seconds VLC Media Player 39 seconds ClipX 35 seconds Windows Installer 35 seconds The Internet Movie Database 32 seconds ImageShack 31 seconds WordPad 25 seconds TeraCopy 22 seconds Skype Portable 22 seconds Picasa Web Albums 20 seconds Syncplicity 17 seconds Google Reader 16 seconds Google Talk 15 seconds VirtualDub 12 seconds Adobe Manager 10 seconds FreeCall 10 seconds Notepad 8 seconds Codebase 5 seconds eTrust ITM 5 seconds Google Checkout 5 seconds GDI++ Tray Notifier 5 seconds ImgBurn 2 seconds Virtual Desktop Manager 2 seconds Tesseract201 2 seconds TortoiseHg 0 seconds Comments Somnath 1 Mar 2011 4:38 pm: More time on Gmail than browsers - how are you accessing Gmail then? S Anand 6 Mar 2011 8:51 pm: @Somnath, mostly breaking through proxies – see http://goo.gl/6wyg0 and http://goo.gl/DNtui. @Thej, no idea I’m afraid, but before I used Wakoopa, I was using https://gist.github.com/857652 which worked just fine, except that it wasn’t social and didn’t have the pretty charts. You might want to tweak that for Linux. Thejesh GN 5 Mar 2011 5:29 pm: It doesnt run on Linux (only PC n MAC). Anything for me? Shankar V 28 Feb 2011 3:10 am: hi Anand how do you generate this list? Wakoopa is blocked at Infy. So could not check that one out. Also, surprised to note that you are a Chrome user against FF. I have used both and my preference is still FF. S Anand 28 Feb 2011 6:38 am: I work out of client sites – so sites aren’t blocked. Plus, it includes software from my home laptop. I shifted to Chrome a while ago, even for development, mostly because it’s faster than FF. The only thing I miss is Firebug, really.

2007 1

How to access Gmail even if it is blocked

If you just want to check if you have new mail on Gmail, use Google’s personalised home page and add Gmail to the homepage. This shows new mail and a few words as a snippet. If you want to read your mail, and don’t want to forward it to another account, use Google Groups as a backup to Gmail. Create a private Google Group and forward mails from Gmail to it. Google Groups often is not blocked, even if Gmail is. ...

2006 2

GTalk is more than a messenger

Google Talk, Not Just An Instant Messenger. It’s used in Gmail, Google Desktop and Google Spreadsheets already. Google plans to use it in more of its services.

Gmail dots

Apparantly, it doesn’t matter where you put a dot in your gmail address.

2005 7

PDF to HTML via Gmail

Convert PDF to HTML via Gmail. This is the only way I know of converting something from PDF into another format. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for GoogleMail in the UK.

Google Reader

Google Reader. Gmail principles applied to RSS. You can subscribe to posts, label feeds and star RSS items. The reader suggests items from your subscriptions based on your interest.

Gmail Groups

Creating Groups on Gmail. Comments Arun 31 Aug 2005 6:38 pm: lol! The things people do. :-)

Gmail is fast

As Jeremy put it, GMail is really damn fast. Faster than desktop email. I prefer it to Outlook, and hence to my work e-mail ID.

RSS Clustering

RSS clustering is about doing what Gmail does on news sources, to RSS feeds of your choice. Comments Arun 28 Jul 2005 4:01 pm: How do you get to all these amazing links? S Anand 29 Jul 2005 6:01 am: Mainly using del.icio.us these days. Arun 29 Jul 2005 2:30 pm: Ah, okie… But there is so much crap there…You are darn good at filtering stuff then! :-) Arun 29 Jul 2005 2:36 pm: btw, dunno if it’s a bug, but there is a problem with the cursor in this text book. If I leave the page and return to the text box after i start typing, am not able to get the cursor to refocus on the text box. It just disappears. In firefox. RaM 29 Jul 2005 4:36 pm: Update the placement section also RaM 29 Jul 2005 4:44 pm: Your Placement Section is static. Pls Update it. Your search tactics are very good Dhar 30 Jul 2005 5:28 am: Arun, I too have had that problem with the cursor. Howie 30 Jul 2005 7:56 am: few links are dead in Placement section S Anand 31 Jul 2005 9:07 pm: Could you give me a step-by-step regarding the cursor problem? I couldn’t reproduce it. Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:50 pm: http://digg.com/spy has an excellent collection of whacky/interesting links. And they use Ajax too. Another nice place to pick up good interesting posts.

Google 2GB

You are currently using 18 MB (2%) of your 1101 MB. Gmail storage increases by 1MB per minute. They are planning to hike capacity to 2GB. Exactly 1 year after launch.

Google tricks

How to find MP3s using Google. Create a montage using Google. Add persistent searches to Gmail. Get credit card numbers using Google. Convert your desktop into a search engine. All using Google. Comments Dhar 8 Mar 2005 10:17 am: Even more using Google: http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews

2004 10

Gmail file system

Gmail File System for Windows.

Using gmail for backup

Interesting idea to use gmail for backup.

Gmail performance at 1GB

Kevin Rose tests gmail performance at 1 GB.

3 gmail invites left

I have 3 gmail invites available. Mail me if you’re interested (and WHY you’re interested in gmail).

No gmail invites left

I have no gmail invites left. Please wish Rajneesh, Joseph, Kannan, Mark, Mohamed and Naresh all the best with their accounts.

6 gmail invites left

I have 6 gmail invites available. Mail me if you’re interested (and WHY you’re interested in gmail).

Bruce wants gmail

Bruce deserves Gmail. Context: Google has invited active bloggers on Blogger.com to use Gmail Beta. Bloggers who joined post facto have not been invited. (I can empathise with what Bruce feels.)

Gmail gems

Gmail Gems and GmailForums are discussions on Gmail.

Gmail is not bad

O’Reilly on why Gmail is not bad.

Gmail is bad

A different perspective on Google mail.