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Google for its 10th anniversary has released its oldest search engine index available (2001).

Make a search and see what were the results then. Were you on that index? Luckily I could find my website on the 2001 index ;)

Google 2001 Index: www.google.com/search2001.html

Stumbled on this human calendar today, I thought it was original. By going to the site you can create different style of human calendars. It will generate a link for you, which you can paste in your HTML.

URL: http://www.humancalendar.com/portable.php

This firefox plugin displays a country flag in the URL field for a given website, depicting the location of the current website’s server. It also provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information (see screenshot).

Besides being a neat firefox plugin, you could use this tool to identify some phishing sites as well. For example, if you access www.paypal.com and see some unknown flag for the server, you better don’t login on that website!

Plugin page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5791

Usually people who are searching for a new job are happy when contacted by a prospective employer, and they would be more than willing if they were asked to come for an interview. But have you ever thought of being paid for going to interview?

NotchUp is a new recruitment site that provides platform for companies to find suitable employees and pay them for coming for the interview. Best part is - you are the one who sets the price!

Unfortunately, the registration is by invitation only. If you are interested to register, leave your email in the comments section below this post and I will send the invitation to you. I would be more than happy to invite you.

Setting up your account is very easy. You can upload your resume in any format, you can also import your LinkedIn profile if you want.

www.notchup.com

I have just done a cleanup of my Gmail inbox. For the first time it’s showing “2 Unread Messages” and not “100+ Unread Messages“.

How do I feel? Feel like I had a haircut after 6 months, no no, feel like I just shaved my head ;) Yeah it’s that good to see so few unread messages in my Gmail.

Two little Gmail search strings and a lot of courage helped me to achieve this result. A lot of courage - because some of the emails I intentionally marked “unread” so that I could reply to them when I have a spare time. But the spare time somehow never came ;) and by now, it was too late to reply to them anyway.

As for the two little search strings, they were:

1. is:unread for listing unread messages.     2)   in:inbox for listing messages in inbox

Used together as is:unread in:inbox in the search field, it will list all the unread emails in your inbox.

Other Useful Search Strings

Here are some of the other useful gmail search strings that you can use:

• Emails from particular sender
  from:ades or from:ades@adesblog.com - so you can use either the sender’s name or email.
• Search for emails in particular label
  in:label - just like above I used “in:inbox”, you can search for emails with any other labels.
• Emails CC’ed or BCC’ed to someone
  cc:arstan - it will search for emails that were CC’ed to Arstan. (Similarly you can use bcc:arstan).
• Search for chat messages
  is:chat - is:chat advertise - it will look for any chat message that contains the word “advertise” in it.
• Emails that are read, unread and starred
  is:read - is:unread - is:starred - it will search for emails that are read, unread and starred respectively. Please note that you can combine more than one search string. Eg; is:starred is:unread from:ades
• Emails with specific subject title
  subject:adsense - finds emails with a word “adsense” in their subject.
  subject:(google adsense) - finds emails in which the subject contains both the word “google” AND “adsense”.
  subject:”google adsense” - finds emails in which the subject contains a phrase “google adsense” in them. Phrases like “adsense google” or “google has adsense” won’t be found.
• Emails that contain attachment
  has:attachment - search for messages with an attachment. Eg; from:ades has:attachment
• Emails with specific attachment
  filename:fonts.zip - search for messages that has attachment fonts.zip.

Memorize the above search strings and you will never lose an email in your Gmail ever again! Hope you find it useful.