Some email providers provide a "Notes" function to let you maintain a list of notes. For example you might keep Web site links, random thoughts, etc. Gmail doesn't offer this feature, but by using some of Gmail's other features, you can set up a very nice, easy to maintain group of notes...

Basically, the concept is to email yourself the notes, but Gmail lets you at least better organize and handle these emails. Here's what you do:

1) Create a Contact with a Name of "Notes" and an Email Address of "username+Notes@gmail.com"
2) Create a new Label called "Notes"
3) Create a Filter to add the "Notes" Label any email addressed to "username+Notes@gmail.com". Also, check the "Skip the Inbox (Archive it)" checkbox.

The effect is this:
When you email yourself from an email account other than your own Gmail account, address the email to "username+Notes@gmail.com". When the message arrives in your Gmail account, it will automatically be archived into your "Notes" Label view, bypassing the Inbox. Nice and organized.

When you want to email yourself from your own Gmail account, click "Compose Email", and just type "Notes" in the "To" field and hit "Tab" or "Enter". Because you used the name "Notes" in the Contact, Gmail will fill in the email address automatically eliminating the need to enter a long address. Then, when you click send, the email gets sent to yourself, and is auto-archived in the Notes Label, just like above.

You now have a Label containing any notes you want to keep, and they are completely searchable!

The customized changes made to menus and toolbars are saved in a file with the extension .xlb.
In Excel 97 and Excel 2000, the file name is the user's name followed by .xlb.
In Excel 2002 and Excel 2003, the file name is Excel.xlb.
To backup the file:
1. Search for a file with the extension .xlb.
2. Copy the file and store it in a safe place.

When you are looking for text in a web page using Firefox's Find as You Type feature, it will play a sound when the text entered can't be found. To deactivate this, enter about:config in the location bar. A list of all preferences will be shown. Look for preference "accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound". You can find it faster by typing a few characters in the Filter text box, for example "sound". Double click on the preference and its value will change to "false".

To set the Scroll Area range, click the Properties icon from the Control Toolbox toolbar. In the Scroll Area text box, type the scroll area range.
(To cancel the Scroll Area restricted range, clear the Scroll Area text box.)
Note: You cannot add two Scroll Areas to the Scroll Area text box.

You can make the submit button of your form more intuitive. Add the following code to your CSS.

input.submit:hover{
cursor:pointer;
background:#eee;
}

Tom: "This is really good. You could probably make some money off this someday."
Myself: "Maybe, but I'm not going to. I'm giving it away for free."
Tom: "Why would you do that?"
Myself: "Because I can't afford to sell it!"

Now if you can see a point here....

Choice, you see, is a funny thing - like the vote. Provide people with the right to choose, and they often won't elect to use it. But try and take away that right, and sooner or later the mobs show up at your door.

Although Gmail doesn't currently support Groups in your Contacts, you can simulate a Group list by doing the following:

1. Create a new Contact
2. In the "Name" field, enter the name of your Group (eg "My Friends")
3. In the "E-mail" field, enter your list of email addresses in the following format:

friend1@gmail.com>,,

Note three things:

1. You must enter ">,<" (without the quotes) between all addresses
2. Be sure NOT to include a leading "<" or trainling ">". This is intentional, because during auto-complete, Gmail adds these characters to the beginning and end of the full string that is in the e-mail field.
3. Also, there should be no spaces in the string.

Just noticed that Yahoo has increased the disk space to 250 MB from 100 MB.

Google has released a new search tool for academic content called Google Scholar. It's in beta, it's got its own syntax, and it is available at http://scholar.google.com/ .

You may search for a keyword or an author, using the author: syntax. The trouble with this search, however, is that some things that are indexed are citations, some of them are PDFs, and some of them are books, so you may have to use very general searches in addition to narrowed down searches because the amount of what is being indexed for each item varies so much.