Alpha Beta Gamma Google

Did you know that Gmail is still in beta. Its been more than 3 years since it has come into existence and since then it has been in beta!

Given that the company in question, you would expect it to have moved out of beta long back. But as the googlesystem blog says ,

"Gmail still has problems with scalability and server errors are still frequent"

For me, Gmail has hardly thrown any errors. Maybe 5-6 times in a year perhaps. Hardly noticeable. High standards perhaps but I am still curious how different the final release will be from the current version.

Dr. StrangeLaunch - How I Stopped Using The Start Menu & Started Loving Launchy

If you think i have gone overboard describing the new windows application "Launchy" then you are yet to experience the magic of launchy. Am I going overboard again **sheepishly smiling** :-O

Simply put Launchy indexes your start menu ( among other things which you can ask it to index ) and with a simple keyboard combination you can invoke it and start typing the application name to find the match and launch it. The default key combination is alt-space, and the default indexing directory is the start menu. For keyboard enthusiasts, this is THE thing to minimize mouse usage. What it has done to me is that i hardly use the start menu anymore.

More about it here

The customizations I have made

1. ctrl-space instead of alt-space , 'coz i use alt-space for maximizing/minimizing etc etc
2. Have created a folder containing shortcuts to the common folders I access, and have indexed it using launchy. Goodbye MyComputer.

P.S: This is just one of the many applications I have installed on my laptop to make life more simpler. Watch out for more in near future.