My top feature requests to Google GMail/GCal

Re: Rosemary, "Google Pilot: Survey on Top 10 Feature Requests" >> https://vovici.com/wsb.dll

• Remove calendar invitation from the Inbox once it is added to calendar
• Ability to see size of an email
• Ability to add email addresses, which are not in the My Contacts list, to a group manually
• Ability to request a return receipt when a recipient has opened your email
• Setting a priority on an email that is sent out
• Selecting and forwarding more than 1 email at a time
• Ability to delete an attachment from an email or conversation thread while leaving the rest of the email(s) intact
• Access to the global directory/shared contacts in order to change phone numbers or other personal information
• Ability to send a chat to a group of people
• Better use of space on right side of email window by moving menu options (New window, Print all, etc.)
• Rich text editing capability for calendar entry 

Ending comment
Header part would be better optimised:-
- Unnecessarily lengthened: "Firstname Lastname <firstname.lastname@domain.com>" -- any Labs' tweak to display shortname/nickname?
- [show details] would be icon button to save space.
- Or better 2 lines to cover necessary brief.

Nokia contact-group naming

Previously I used '#' prefix so that groups are placed at beginning of contacts list. Now (6710 Navigator) system skips all symbolic characters except currency signs.

Last try: ":_(!?*@~^+.|/% test"

Mobile notes revision history

prepare (next/pending)
8/15'09 Change from [today2] (Not today-tomorrow requirement) >> online systems

money clearing
Also see: http://sites.google.com/site/twilightfrontier/Home/financial

logs
(across all activity domains)
Instruction: Review together with front sheet in organizer book and target to move to planner book. Do not retain here too long.

My new external harddisc

Hitachi SimpleDRIVE Mini 320GB

Revise my harddiscs usage

• Use the new Hitachi HDD to do backup job.  It has ArcSoft's TotalMedia Backup software bundled.
• ...
  

Problems synchronising Ovi

http://www.ovi.com/services/contacts

Available contact fields on Ovi

Field	General	Home	Work
Mobile	1	1	1
Telephone	1	1	1
Fax	0	0	1
Pager	0	0	1
Address		1	1
Email	1	1	1
Website	1	1	1

Problems

1. There is no 2nd work/home telephone fields.
   
2. Cannot handle Thai message: job title, note.  Thai characters are kept in Ovi.  But they becomes "???" in Outlook when synchronised (through PC Suite 7.1.26).
3. Note's text can be truncated to only first line.
4. 'Work mobile' in Ovi can become 'Car telephone' in Outlook.
   

So, by this time, do NOT synchronise Ovi back to phone yet.  Keeping for data backup would be OK.

My tweeting shorthands

(Now published to FrontierDigest)

My hashtags

• SOM = same-old/so-often/still-ongoing mistake(s)/mistaking/misunderstanding -- complementary to FAQ
• FFA = frequently-forgotten answer(s) -- complementary to FAQ
  
• down = system-down incident
• mailed = already (e)mailed.  Same idea as Yammer's #joined.

My Nokia: 6710 Navigator

Alternative journaling: friendfeed.com/.../review-install-nokia-6710-navigator

Setting up!
.....

Customisation
Standby display

Item	From	To	Remark
Left selection	Menu	Notes	Menu already has dedicated button.
Right selection	Contacts	Voice recorder	Contacts is not really needed, Menu-2 is sufficient.
Shortcut 1	Clock	Calculator	Old unit's command was Menu-4 but this one is deeper: Menu-#(Applications)-2(Clock).  However, new clock can have several alarms so that it needn't be set daily.
Shortcut 2	Profiles	Active notes	Profile selection is available when press Off button.
Shortcut 3	Camera	Gallery	Camera: just press-hold shutter button already handy. Gallery: Now it is deeper than Menu-5 and there's no media button in this model.  Also, it is preferred than just Music player only.
Shortcut 4	Maps	QuickOffice	Map button already exists.  Quickoffice now can substitute File Manager.
Shortcut 5	Messaging	Bluetooth	Messaging: Being in 1st-level menu is sufficient.
Shortcut 6	Music player	Connection manager	Connection manager is necessary to review and sometime to force disconnecting.  Its original location is deep.

Other candidates for shortcut keys

• File manager: try using Quickoffice instead.
  
• Dictionary, Converter: not use much so far.
• Internet -- Opera or Google: too risky to online-connecting by accident.
  

Original/factory-default menu

Calendar	Contacts	Log
Internet	Messaging	Gallery
Download!	Maps	Camera
Settings	Organiser	Applications

---

History

Oct.31; AIS>  Check AIS for any special offers
Promotion = ส่วนลดค่าโทร

• E52: 11000 900-1200
• E75: 15790 1500-1800
• 6710 Nav = 13370; 50-100/month x 12

Available POSs (point of sale) are: AIS shop, Serenade club, Telewiz

Case size compatible?

• 6710: 105 x 51 x 15
• 7210: 106 x 45 x 18
• 6680: 109 x 56 x 22
• N71: 98 x 51 x 23
• N72: 109 x 53 x 22

Financial accounting codes

BBBtNNN

• BBB = bank name
• t = type
• NNN = additional names such as branch, programme

Bank-account types

• - = savings (dash denotes general/default type)
• % = fixed deposit
• $ = special savings

My Gmail SuperStars

1. yellow-star:  Normal, default -- it is Gmail native flag.
2. green-check:  What has been done, replied, responded. Normally when a topic is routine, scheduled, or followed up.
• Another implication is to indicate mail which I expect for replying, and when it comes back then it's my turn to review: i.e., this icon indicates "what I'm waiting for" -- mail that needs reviewing (and may even expect my next action!).
3. blue-info:  Specific information -- require some further attention/action.
4. purple-question:  Need further discussion, finding-out.
5. orange-guillemet:  To delegate/assign to someone else.
6. red-bang: ATTENTION, IMPORTANT

Associated implication (normally in multiple inboxes or quick links)

• 'Reports & info' =  l:.report OR has:green-check OR has:blue-info
  
• 'Reports? (inbox)' = in:inbox subject:(report OR status) OR has:green-check
• ...
  

Others that I don't use

• Other stars (red, orange, green, blue, purple): Let be simple, one star is enough. These colours are also redundant with others.
• yellow-bang: default star is already yellow.

My mail tags/folders

friends2
9/23) = friend friend = friend's friend: friend of friend.
For social-networking catagorisation.

ROM
9/25) Review of operation/management
Others in consideration
- MOR, MORe: management/operation review
- MM: management memo

run (.run)
10/1) From classic computing term. This is because using "done/end" is not practical in Gmail: an already done/end mail can be later replied and then returned to Inbox (and not done/end yet) again. Note that "run" is also the past-participle of same "run": i.e., no matter it is returned/restarted, it was run anyway :)

New external harddrive specs

• External, 2.5": i.e., no power-supply required
• Capacity: 500GB up, probably 1TB.
• Speed: transfer rate, RPM.
  
• USB 2.x (and more such as FireWire?)
  
• Packaging: พกพาสะดวก
  
• Good warranty: period, convenience.  How about technical support?
  
• Preferably non-Seagate but also need good reason(s).
• Bundled application(s)?

My web-browser bookmark list

จดไว้กันลืม  โดยเฉพาะเวลา Xmarks ทำรวน

Firefox

• #main, #office
• usr, grp, prg, org, sys
• ----
• Firefox: Get Bookmark Add-ons, Recently Bookmarked, Recent Tags
• my customisation: main set ($#)
• Plug-ins' addition: Read It Later, StumbleUpon, Diigo-Bookmarks
  
• ----
• Firefox: (customised/consolidated) Firefox.1st
• Search
• Microsoft: Microsoft Websites, MSN Websites, Windows Live
• Pocket-PC/Windows-Mobile: Mobile Favorites
• ----
• etc, tmp
• ...

IT vs security

Facebook: wall, Yesterday at 6:14pm

iMAP, FriendFeed, Yammer, survey, PC-Requests ...

Debica> Yammer?
Vipas> Yammer.com, company social networking: http://ff.im/7QroE
Arjin> P'Vipas, I've closed my account for long, since I receive email from security about confidential information related :)
Vipas> IMHO, it depends on how we use and manage. If we always looked for absolute security, we threw off cloud computing and never went to any information technology nowadays; then accepted staying suffered every morning for anti-malware updating or even allowed yield dropping to install scanning shield to guarantee best(?) protection.
Arjin> haha....like it :)

Would we walk on left or right?

เราควรเดินชิดข้างไหนบนทางเดินสาธารณะ?

Left

1. ตามการเขียนหนังสือ -- ถ้ามีป้ายหรือประกาศข้างทาง จะอ่านได้สะดวก
2. ตามระบบจราจร
   

Right

1. เวลาอยู่บนทางเท้าข้างถนนจะเห็นรถสวนง่ายกว่า
   

Otherwise

1. ควรใช้มือไหนจับราว(บันได)?

My own tonal marking for Thai names in English

• ' (single quote) = ไม้เอก
• ~ (tilde) = ไม้โท
• ^ (caret) = ไม้ตรี
• + (plus) = ไม้จัตวา

Synchronise Twitter to Facebook

http://friendfeed.com/frontierdigest/658b5bc6/twitter-for-facebook

My opinion is to avoid. I used to try and canceled shortly. It's so flooding and eats space of other people's posts in Facebook -- both our and friends' sides. The tool may be appropriate for one who has nothing else to post in Facebook.

UAC is turned back on!

My office PC gets UAC turned back on more often recently (not always). Probably, corporate is working some system polices and trig it.

From PkP's finding:
http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-security/16572-disable-uac-oppoed-similar-group-policy.html
http://blog.halan.se/PermaLink,guid,4129667e-da9a-4118-9040-669d37a1ba88.aspx

TOT ADSL down last weekend

/* drafting */
Calls
1) TOT: >> D-Link
2) D-Link: >> Singapore, ...
3) TOT: ...

GMail labels

Facts found

1. Symbol characters can be used except caret (^).
2. ?(to verify)? Cannot prefix label with slash (/), dash (-).
   
3. System can look up word after blank, period (.) and comma (,): i.e., can look for ".abcde" or "grp: abcde" when type "ab".
   

My tactical labels

Label	Description
_	my team: i.e., "under-line"
&+	my (selected) peer coworkers and higher.
...2	"... too": i.e., also or secondary.
fyi2/fwd2	FYI too / Forward too, or "for your information to forward too".
₠	Actually it is "Euro-currency sign", but I'd rather use it for "calendar/event".
%	my colleagues (we have some mutual benefits)
*%	highlights and/or measurement (somewhat beyond just ".report")

Other label names

• delete2
• report2, notify2
• OoO/away (out of office)
• 
  

Photo sharing among social networks

Where	Inside sharing	Outside sharing	Download	Upload
Multiply
Facebook	Selectable	Public link	No
Hi5	Selectable	Emailing	No
Shutterfly

Where do I find web bookmarks?

(for memory reminder)
Delicious
FriendFeed: especially those shared with particular groups.
Other social bookmarking: Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon
KeePass
Web browser's local

SequoiaView colour-setting list

images: bmp, gif, jpg, jpeg, tif, pcx
movies: avi, mov, mpg, mpeg, wmv
sound: wav, mp3, vqf, wma, mid
graphic: wmf, emf

/ execute: exe. com, dll
/ compress/install: zip, cab, msi

/ document: pdf, mht
/ MS-Office: xls, xlt, doc, dot, ppt, pps, mdb, pst

etc: asf

Twitter vs FriendFeed

Twitter
- Remote posting = gadgets: e.g., BeTwittered
- Can mark star.

FriendFeed
- Remote posting = Google Talk (ff@chat.friendfeed.com)

How to arrange media/AV folders?

Current names: media.av, media.lib, memory.lib, copy.etc\...

Categories

1. Internal: personal/family documents such as scanned images.
2. Albums: photos, videos
3. Studio/lab: imported from AV devices such as PVR.
4. Collection: music, VDO clips (from outside)
5. Stationery/library: avatar images, grabbed images from people & etc.
6. Miscellaneous clippings: e.g., screen capturing

Factors

1. ownership
2. privacy, sharing
3. portability, synchronisation
   
4. backing-up & archiving

Appropriate threat-alert form

Contents
In awareness of excerpting when a post is fed to other pages. Common-necessary information would be placed at beginning.

1. Identification: name, type, risk assessment, (re)solution
2. Situation/status: impact, preventive/proactive actions, passive action/progress
3. More details: characteristic, resolution (corrective action)
4. Other references

Items

Subject: use term "Threat-alert" to be common among virus, security threat, spyware, etc. Then follow by threat's common name.

Labels/tags: attention, computer-security

Identification

1. Name: threat's full/official name
2. Type: from which we can determine the threat's major characteristic
3. Severity: how much disaster the threat can do.
4. Spreading: how fast/wide can the threat do outbreak.
   
5. Difficulty: how long/difficult to remove the threat infection. Note that some case, repairing may not be difficult anymore but still takes long time.
   
6. Protection: what are required to protect our systems against the threat.
   

Situation

1. Impact: when, where, and how many that infection is found.
2. Protection deployment status, or any preventive workaround and progress.
3. Passive action/progress: for ones already got attacked.

More details

1. Infection, risk condition: what kinds of system, process, characteristic that are risky to be attacked.
2. Symptom: what can we notice when attacked?
3. Resolution, correction: how to remove the threat after attack?

Remarks
Comparing risk-assessment attributes with FMEA

1. Severity: same
2. Occurrence: not really concerned in operation. We'd rather review current/known impact of each time.
3. Detect risk: can be determined from "protection": i.e., it is high when protection is not available yet, and it is low when protection is effecient and successfully installed.
   

NAI/McAfee has a good attribute list -- where?

If quantifiable, risk assessment can be plotted as bubble chart:

• x = difficulty
• y = severity
• z = spreading

EOx

File
Line
Promotion
Service, Support
Warranty

iGoogle gadget: My Google Groups

http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=www.google.com/ig/modules/mygroups.xml

I rather cancel it. Its setting: sort by 'New messages', seems not work as expected -- still list groups alphabatically with 4-line room. So it does not help notifying me new updates from the method I click 'Groups' link at the top of iGoogle page.

Revise my workbooks

** This does not mean to change from an old method forever. Any method can be revised, and can be returned -- depending on situation of each time period. **

• ลองเลิกใช้ lecture book (สมุดจดริมลวด wire-bound). Consolidate into Organizer + clipboard. คิดว่าเก็บสมุดจดนี้ไว้เวลาติดตัวไป lecture ที่ไหน แล้วมาฉีกแยกเก็บทีหลัง (เหมือนสมุด lecture ฉีกแบบสันกาว แต่แบบริมลวดจะกะทัดรัดกว่า)
• Organizer book: to-do (unscheduled), collecting/archiving แยกเป็นหมวดหมู่. ทดลองเอาส่วน diary มาใช้ดูว่าเป็นไงมั่ง (needn't be stuck with design template)
  
• Clipboard: drawing, miscellaneous-temporary journaling.
• Planner book: to-do schedule, work planning.

Would we leave another (back/left) page of paper?

(ทิ้งว่างไว้ดีไหม?)

Yes, we would

1. เอาไว้ทด, ร่าง, drawing
2. (From K.พรทิพย์) เว้นหน้าซ้ายในสมุดเอาไว้เติม-แทรกเวลาตกหล่น
3. เผื่อกรณีทำ clipping จะได้ตัดไปแปะที่อื่นได้ ไม่ติดเรื่องหน้าหลัง.

No, we would not

1. เปลือง, เสียดาย
2. ที่จะเผื่อไว้น่ะ ไม่เห็นจะได้ใช้ซักเท่าไหร่เลย

Should I uninstall ClipMarks?

http://clipmarks.com/faq/

Reasons
- Need to create account
- I've already had FastStone Capture.
- Maybe EverNote can do same, or as complement to FScapture.

2/20'09> เก็บไว้ก่อน ไม่เกะกะสักเท่าไหร่ เผื่อตอนอยากใช้จะได้ไม่ต้องตามค้นมาลงใหม่

Publication drafting

** pre-blogging, farm **

1. GoogleDocs(doc): can be offline.
2. Windows Live.com also has blog editor tool.
3. Mailbox draft folder -- as general-purpose memopad.

Official blog publication

Pranithan

• about company: profile, performance
• corporate communication
  

FrontierDigest

• own articles of R&D (research & development), analysis, discovery
• ผลงานเผยแพร่ -- treat this blog like company's magazine: some labels(tags) imply article columns.
  
• business (market, industry) or technical
• During this time of writing, this site appears to contain only technical articles because it is only myself's part.
  

ByteSPark

• social & educational: neither business nor technical
  
• social knowledge collection (community-driven, not our own information)

Also consider ...

1. News (clipping): maybe applicable to any blog.
2. ...
   

Upgrade SpeedNavi to SQ & 2009

Dec'08 end) Download files: connection reset เป็นระยะๆ แต่ถ้าเป็น IE, click download ใหม่มันจะต่อให้ (อย่าไป refresh web page นะ). GIS Data seemed to close that nobody picked up calls.
1/5'09) To wait a few days for "free-up".
1/14) ต้อง download map data ใหม่ของปีนี้ เพราะ installation codes เป็นของปี 2009.

กลับมาจาก press dinner ค่อยๆ download แล้ว copy ไปลง Pocket-PC storage card กว่าจะเสร็จก็ตีหนึ่ง.

Look for new personal MFC printer

Why do I want to replace the old printer?
- Lack of maintenance functionality via Windows Vista.
- Some problem when print report in Thai. สระบน-ล่างจะเปื้อนๆ
- อยากได้ wireless-printing support: WLAN, (optional) Bluetooth
- To consolidate with facsimile.

What are my concerns?
- Ink: ลองดูแล้วรุ่นที่เป็นหมึกแยกสีก็อาจจะไม่ประหยัดลง
- ยังคงต้องระวังให้มีการ exercise printing อยู่เสมอ ถึงแม้ว่าจะเป็น fax standby ก็ตาม
- พอเป็น fax standby แล้วอาจกินไฟมากขึ้น


Power consumption (watts)
Compare with thermal fax at home: standby 5, transmit 15, receive 35, copy 40, max 100

Model	Off	StandBy	Ready	Max
HP J4680	0.4	2.8	3	17
HP J6310				60
HP J6480	1.2	7.5	8	40
HP J6500	0.6	5.6 - 6.7	22	50

Nokia N80

Why I bought

1. WiFi support
2. รุ่นนี้ออกมาปีนึงแล้ว (ตอนที่ซื้อ) >> still look good, price has been down.
3. Keypad size OK (ปุ่มใหญ่ กดง่าย)
   
4. ลองใช้ Symbian ดูมั่ง
5. Data cable is compatible to existing others in family.

What's more in using?

1. ช่องลำโพง ใช้นิ้วปิดช่องให้เงียบได้สะดวกดี
   
2. Lifeblog, Wellness Diary
   

Why I want to change

1. Symbian ไม่มี stopwatch/timer application; อัดเสียงได้ครั้งละไม่เกิน 1 นาที/clip; กำหนด ringtone by group ได้ไม่เนียนเหมือน S40.
2. Slide มันไม่ค่อยแน่น มียอบแยบบ้าง (เทียบกับ 6270 ตัวก่อน)
3. Camera's macro switch มันโดนเกี่ยวง่ายมาก
4. รุ่นใหม่ๆ WiFi จะรับสัญญาณดีขึ้นไหมหนอ?
5. อยากได้ A-GPS
6. สนใจ motion sensor (auto-rotate feature)
7. Can camera be better?: e.g., lens (distort น้อยลง?), 5mpx up, xenon flash
8. Messaging interface: Inbox does not show date/time (to choose "message details"). Delivery report is separated from Inbox but however the folder keeps only 20 reports.
   

Requirement review

1. PC sychronisation: with MS-Outlook, content capacity (especially the notes). Must it be only Nokia? How about others nowadays?
2. Can read PDF and MS-Office documents. Write-ability is not really a must.
   
3. News/RSS: Don't care much as long as can use Freerange and Mobipocket Reader.
   

Hello world

Cat-able = แมว-ก็ได้ }:)
Use this as my individual-to-public posting.

นั่งเช็คชื่อเป็นชั่วโมง นึกว่าจะง่ายกลายเป็นว่ามีคนอื่นเอาไปหมดแล้ว
Create G.spreadsheet "names" ไว้รวบรวมชื่อทั้งที่ของตัวเองจดได้ กับที่มีคนอื่นเอาไปแล้ว เดิมทำไว้ใน excel ที่ไหนสักแห่ง -- ไว้จะเอามาใส่รวมกัน.

Why not ...

• Facebook, Multiply, WordPress, or even G.Docs(drafting): Blogger มี tool ดีกว่า โดยเฉพาะ gadget ใน iGoogle
• Twitter: ไม่กะเขียนสั้นๆ เอาเป็นบทความเลย. นึกได้ก็ create post ก็มาเป็น topic ไว้เลย แล้วก็อาจจะกลับมา update ทีหลัง.
• Other existing blogs: this blog is my own opinion and shareable to public. (Really matter?)

How about name "HandyCat"?