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How to process your Gmail fast with saved searches

Quick Links saved searches in Gmail.

The Quick Links feature in Gmail gives me fast access to custom searches in Gmail, such as all unread emails not labelled ‘today’, or all unread emails labelled ‘waiting’. Here’s how to set up this enormously useful feature.

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How I write my daily Tech Universe column

Tech Universe.

RSS feeds in NetNewsWire, Google and Twitter searches, Applescript and BBEdit make it (relatively) quick and easy for me to find the Tech Universe links that appear in the NZ Herald and here. Here’s how it works for me.

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Spoiled by Chrome

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In the couple of weeks I’ve been using it Google Chrome has taught me that there need only be one box.

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Google adds real-time search

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Google search results now include real-time content from twitter, blogs and other sources.

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How to work with Gmail Labels

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Gmail doesn’t have mailboxes. Instead it uses the much more powerful Labels.

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Are you thinking video?

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YouTube has taken hold of the public imagination. Are you working with that fact, or are you being sidelined?

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