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Gmail Findings: Download Mail from External Account

So you have several different mail accounts? Having trouble reading them all at the same time? Like the GMail user interface and would prefer to have all your emails routed through it? Look no further for Gmail can do all this for you! To add other email accounts to your Gmail account (i.e. pairing them […]

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Gmail Findings: Filter by Labels

This really sounds as if it’s something obvious, something one really can not miss. But it’s not, it took me a good five minutes or so to find how to filter the mail in Gmail by labels. Labels, for those of you who do not know, is like putting mail into different folders or categories […]

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Trying out Leopard!

The past week or two has been spent on learning and getting used to Mac OS X 10.5.4, also known as Leopard. This is the major upgrade from Tiger, introducing a big load of new features, improvements and updates. Our family had an old PowerBook G4 lying around, and I thought it would be great […]

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Test post from Windows Live Writer

Just testing whether I am able to post from Windows Live Writer. If this is showing and I therefore am able to post it might increase my productivity a lot. Conclusion After testing this out I came to the conclusion that setting categories is tough and that adding custom keywords might be difficult. I will […]

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Rendering a Movie

Rendering has got to be the most annoying part of the video-creating process. I have a few tips I’d like to share with you, however. First of all, whatever codec you use, make sure the input ratio in the codec settings is set to match the clips you’re editing. If you don’t, the ratio will […]

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New RAM on the Laptop! Easy!

Finished installing a new stick of RAM in my Lenovo laptop today, and I must say it was the easiest thing I have ever done! The laptop itself is of the brand Lenovo and is called 3000 N200. It has an old dual-core processor (1.46GhZ per core?) and comes with two sticks of 512MB SO-DIMM […]