Tips on using the very powerful GMail Search capabilities.

Quoted: It's no surprise that the killer feature in Google's email offering, Gmail, is its search capability. Google's king of the web because it makes information on its billions of pages findable; likewise, Gmail makes the megabytes of messages that get pumped into your inbox every day manageable...

Speed up Mail.app on a Mac by removing the Envelope index.

Quoted: Tips, Plugins, Scripts and Addons for Apple Mail / Mail.app

Excel Tutorial from the University of South Dakota.

For the bloggers in the house. 10 ideas for when you have writer's block for your next blog post.

22 ways to add variety to your comic panels. Kinda cool, even for those of us who don't create comics (at least none we would ever show to anybody).

Quoted: One of my favorite Stickies features is the ability to make a sticky translucent. Just click on a sticky and press Command-Option-T (Translucent Window). Then you can see right through your sticky to the items behind it. This is really handy if you want to see items in Finder windows that would normally be covered by any open Stickies. To turn off the transparency (pardon me, translucency), just press the shortcut again when Stickies is active.

Quoted: Okay, you probably already know the ol’ Command-Shift-3 shortcut for taking a screen capture of your entire screen, and you may even know about Command-Shift-4, which gives you a crosshair cursor so you can choose which area of the screen you want to capture. But perhaps the coolest, most-secret hidden capture shortcut is Control-Command-Shift-3 (or 4), which, instead of creating a file on your desktop, copies the capture into your Clipboard memory, so you can paste it where you want. (I use this to paste screen captures right into Photoshop.)

Screen capture on a mac.

Gmail web-fu.

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