Hurgh’s Blog

Like most people, I have a few Gmail accounts. I use these accounts mainly for signing up to mailing lists, and also when I need to enter my email address in an online form.

I logged into the main one I use the other day, and found that the filters were not working properly, there were hundreds of emails from mailing lists in the Inbox, and not in their correct labels.

The reason for this, as I found out later, was because some people send the emails with the mailing list’s email address in the “CC” field, and as you all probably know, Gmail filters do not have a section for CC.

I set out to fix this, and after a bit of messing around with the filters, I found that you could use the “Has the Words” field, and enter a string such as:

cc:(someone@list.com)

The above code, simply searches for someone@list.com in the “CC” field, you can also insert:

to:()
subject:()
from:()

which mimic the already available fields.

There is a few other things you can do in the “Has the Words” field, which make using the to:() from:() and subject:() commands useful.

Instead of using the To/From/Subject fields, you can enter something like this into the “Has the Words” field:

to:(someone@there.com) OR cc:(someone@there.com)

which will, as you have probably already guessed, match any emails that have someone@there.com in either the To or the CC fields, which can be very useful for those mailing lists, where some people have the mailing list email address in the TO field, and some people have the mailing list email address in the CC field.

You can also use other operators, OR, AND, NOT, etc, and create big long filters like:

(to:(someone@there.com) AND cc:(someoneelse@nowhere.com)) OR (to:(someoneelse@nowhere.com) AND cc:(someone@there.com)) AND NOT subject:(That Place)

which will simply match all emails where the To and CC are someone@there.com and someoneelse@nowhere.com in either order, and the subject is not “That Place”.

I am still seeing if there is other things you can filter on, like email headers or other things, so I will post another update when I find more info. If you know of other things that you can filter on, please post a comment, and I will add them to the main post.

I hope this has been helpful to some of you. I know it helped me out and now my Gmail Inbox is a lot cleaner then it has been in a while. (Now to find a way to mark all messages as read, like 10000 at a time…..)

-Hurgh-

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Was reading the news at Overclockers and they had a cool link to a game of chess.

The thing that made me interested in this game of chess is that, you played against a computer, but when it was the computers turn, you would see all the moves that the computer was calculating while trying to work out the best move to make.

You can check it out Here.

Even if you don’t play chess or cant remember the rules, it is still worth checking out.

-Hurgh-

Ok, so I am a long time user of Mozilla Firefox, and I must say, I really like it as a browser. Sure there is some things that it doesn’t do, that IE does (mainly ActiveX stuff), but it does all the stuff that I need it to do.
There is one problem that I find is really annoying. Firefox 1.5 (the version that I use) has a bad memory leak. If I leave Firefox open overnight or over the weekend (which I do all the time), normally with only 5-6 tabs open, when I come back the next day, Firefox is using up ~200-300mb of RAM and the same VM.

A couple of days ago, i stumbled across this post: Firefox 3.0 Improves Memory Management and finally I thought that this was the answers to the memory problem in Firefox 1.5!! The article states that he had never had Firefox 3 consume more than 70mb of memory with 10 tabs open. I thought this was great news, so I quickly downloaded the alpha release, and installed it.

My first thoughts were great, the interface had changed a little, it had a few extra little features, one of which is automatic spell checking in text boxes (which is very useful for me), and after using it for a day, I was beginning to agree with the other blog poster. I had not seen the memory usage for Firefox 3 go above about 56mb!!

I then went home for the night…. When I got to work this morning, the computer was extremely slow, so I opened up Task Manager… Guess what I found….

Firefox was using up 380mb of RAM and about 1gig of VM!!!

Now, I did not get a screen cap of Firefox open with TaskManager to prove that it is Firefox 3, but trust me it is. I only had 8 tabs open in Firefox and had left it open over night, no more than 14 hours.

I will probably still continue to use Firefox 3, as I really like the improvements in the interface etc, and I do realise that it is only alpha software, but I really hope that the next version fixes this annoying memory leak.

-Hurgh-

Ok, so a few of you might have already seen this, so just stay with me for a sec. I got an email the other day with a video attached. The video was of this ventriloquist on the TV show America’s Got Talent, and he did a “Real Life Godzilla” act. It was very funny and I wanted to see more, so after a bit of searching, I found the second show.

For those of you that haven’t seen it yet, here is the first one:

Real Life Godzilla Part 1

This is also a bit longer than the one that was attached to an email, so if you only saw the one from the email, go check this one out.
At the end of the first one, the Judges say that they want him to come back, so here is the 2nd part:

Real Life Godzilla Part 2

The guy is very talented, would be such a cool party trick to be able to do that sort of stuff well.

Anyway, Till next time.

-Hurgh-