Priyank Patel's Notes

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Running out of space in Gmail ? - Try FindBigMail to look for huge email messages

I started noticing that I am running out space on my gmail account, even though space in gmail is supposed to be unlimited. I am approaching dangerous limits of usage in my gmail account. I was looking for a good way to find the size of email message, but there is no good way to look for that in gmail web app. 

Only thing you can do is to download all your message in thunderbird/outlook and check the size of the message there. What a bummer !! Google please implement size column in the gmail and give us a search operator to look for messages.

But until google does that, FindBigMail will help you. I plugged in my gmail address and gave access to my account and then after 15 mins or so, following results came up. It categorizes and tags the messages with appropriate labels. Works like a charm (if you are comfortable giving 3party webapp access to your gmail account :) )

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CoffeeCompany Wifi Headlines

CoffeeCompany WiFi headlines.

Holland’s largest chain of coffee shops is called CoffeCompany. They wanted to attract more students, so they installed WiFi in some of its stores near universities. The problem is, lots of students just come into the store for the WiFi but hardly look at the menu.

So CoffeeCompany decided to move the store’s menu into the WiFi menu of customers’ laptops. They periodically changed the wireless network name from the normal “CoffeeCompany” to hard-selling headlines. So as students looked for a network, they found menu lines such as “mmm….YummyMuffinsOnly1,99″

This is beyond awesome.

Now this is cool. Providing free wifi and getting your message across at same time. Nice way to get wifi users to buy one more coffee. :)
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