3 Handy Uses for Gmail’s Canned Responses Feature

3 Handy Uses for Gmail’s Canned Responses Feature.

Accurate colour rendering on your PC

Calibrate your monitor

http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/

Adobe Gamma can be used to calibrate your monitor, and you can also buy hardware calibrators.

My personal favourite is the calibration tool found here: http://tft.vanity.dk/

Photoshop CS4 Colour Management

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps11_colour/ps11_1.htm

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1332853

PS: Very important to have your monitor set to the same colour profile being used by Photoshop, else you will have different colours in Photoshop when compared to the rest of your Windows applications

Some Technical stuff about sRGB

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB

Recommended Settings

When taking photos, shoot at defaults: sRGB color space, which is the world standard for digital cameras and the Internet. Because its the world standard, if you use it, every printer and lab will get it right because they all expect it.

sRGB is the world standard for digital images, printing and the Internet. So long as you haven’t screwed with anything, you and the world are shooting in sRGB.

Use sRGB and you’ll get great, accurate colors everywhere all the time.

Here is my colour setup in photoshop, which I use for web design and photo editing mainly:

Bad habits on the internet

Today I was wondering about my very annoying habit of forgetting attachments when sending out emails. I also have a habit of temporarily putting these attachments on the desktop and then deleting them as soon as I send the email. So when the recipient informs me that there was no attachment I have to go back to the recycle bin to restore that file and attach it. I wonder what are other bad habits people have, leave your bad habits in the comments section

Anonymous browsing

http://toonel.net/

toonel.net is an experiment in a technique for conserving network bandwidth. If you are paying a fee based on the amount of data you transfer (e.g. 3G/GPRS/DSL/CDMA) and have monthly download limit, or if you have narrowband connection (e.g. dialup modem) then you are most likely to appreciate the service toonel.net offers. There are number of toonel.net client application packages. All solutions are 100% Java based and therefore this service can be used on any platform with an installed Java Runtime Environment, including mobile phones.

How to free up space on Gmail

While most Gmail users have more than enough space on their accounts, some heavy email users like myself might actually near the storage space limit. Freeing up space is not so straightforward as there aren’t any real sorting options available, so my solution is to download all the emails to Outlook, then sort them by size within outlook, and go back to Gmail to delete the emails with big attachments, provided I don’t need them anymore.