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Found this nifty little tip on EscapeLogic today, as I was consolidating my multiple email boxes. If you have gmail, aren’t that into archiving, and have a crap-ton of unread emails, here’s how to eliminate that annoying problem:
So, you’ve just imported thousands of emails into your GMail account with the POP function? Well you now have thousands of messages marked “Unread” in your inbox. This is annoying. You could go page by page (25 to 100 at a time) marking your messages as “Read,” but here is the “All in one swoop” approach:
-In the search box, enter the following “is:unread” (without the quotes).
-In the “Select:” area, Click “All”
-A new link appears, Click it: “Select all conversations that match this search”
-Click the drop down box “More actions…” and select “Mark as Read.”
-Click OK on the confirmation box that says “This action will affect all messages in the search. Are you sure you want to apply the action?”
That’s it. You’re done.
That’s helpful, man.
So, had to get a new computer. Blew chunks as I made that purchase, but swore I would treat the new baby (named Harper, in case anyone cared, the middle name of the author of To Kill A Mockingbird) much better.
That has already begun. I bought a LaCie 500Gb external drive. It’s super-sexy. It’s the F.A. Porche design, so it matches my baby. I’m gonna upload another post with pictures. That I will have taken about thirty seconds before I upload them. (I named my drive Churchill. That made me chuckle some.)
Purpose for the drive: to really back my stuff up. Lemme tell you, it’s annoying to back things up with Mozy (see earlier, bitchier post). As it turns out, I should have found it in me to have a little patience. I put in the restore request a little before midnight, my stuff was ready the next morning by eight. I’m just not patient. So, I’m gonna fiddle with some lil’ progs (right now, I’m giving iBackup a shot) to do back things up on my drive.
Um, also I got a tattoo the other night. Commemoration of adulthood, or something to that effect. I’ll post my pics of that, too.
And, then, I have a website to finish. Who knew iWeb would ever come in so handy for me…?
My MacBook Pro died on Friday, June 22nd, 2007. At 6:04 pm, as I rushed to my French final, I realized that I had left her on top of my friend’s car. He had peeled off moments before. She was run over by his back tire, as well as both right tires of another vehicle. The funeral will be Wednesday at 4pm.
All is well that ends well, I suppose. I bought a new one today. Putting all my crap back on is…frustrating to say the least. Here’s where my opinion comes in. So Mozy is what I have used to do my backup. Um, why do I have to wait for a “Web Restore build confirmation email” to get my files? Why does Mozy have to “find” my shit?? I would really like to have all my bookmarks back in order, my calendars uploaded (this is minor, I also have them on my iPod), et cetera. I’m frustrated at how this is a less-than-ideal scenario for a person who is less-than-patient. I’m going to try to find a new backup system, and I’ll report back on whether it also annoys the crap out of me.
At present, I am on the bus on the way to school, updating my iPod.I found this software the other day. It’s called Moody. It’s basically a whole new way of creating playlists in iTunes. I am a closet neurotic. I like things (especially computer/tech-related things) to be a certain way. Which is why I don’t really let anyone touch my stuff. Ever. So, naturally, my iTunes library tends to follow the same sort of trend. I have 11,412 songs. If you exclude audiobooks, comedy shows, and videos, that number is about 10,560. Lots of anthologies, and loads of accumulated tracks, the result of the efforts of an audiophile who been in the biz for eight years. Needless to say, figuring out what to listen to is a welcome chore, but still a chore. I have used the iTunes 5-star rating system, but it doesn’t really get the job done. Before I accidentally deleted my playlists on my PC, my 5-star rating playlist was over 1500 songs. Not exactly easy listening. Moody brings things to a new level. It is basically a 16-square grid arranged by color method. The bottom row goes left to right, sad to happy. The left column from bottom to top, calm to intense. It also has a nifty feature that allows you to spend some quality time with your music, skipping to the next track in a playlist as soon as you rate it. Or you can simply play your music how you want, and rate as you go along. Because my collection is so damned immense, it’s going to take forever to get all my music rated. But once I do, it should be pretty amazing. I’ll do my best to not seem so thoroughly impressed by a color-grid. But I can’t hide my excitement…
