From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Connecting the dots

June 22, 2009

in Notes

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the university’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005. Inspiring and worth 15 minutes

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Search your GMail from your Firefox search box

June 18, 2009

in Tips & Tricks

I’ve moved my email accounts to Google Appz a few weeks ago and I’m quite glad with it. The search is great and I looked for a way to search my Inbox directly from the Firefox search box without another addon. After looking around I’ve found a way through the Opensearch capability of firefox. Since it’s handy I wanted to share it with you even when it’s not strictly design related ;-) .

Just make a text document with the the extension .xml in the Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/searchplugins directory (on Windows) /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS?/Search/Plugins/ for Mac, cut and paste the following lines of code and replace the highlighted parts (Shortname, Description, yourdomain.com) with your details.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<ShortName>My Gmail</ShortName>
<Description>My Emails on Google Appz</Description>
<Url type="text/html" template="https://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/#search/{searchTerms}"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>

After saving the file (eg. mygmail.xml) restart Firefox and you will see the new search engine in the drop down box.

Note: This works only with Gmail for Google Appz and if you choosen to remain logged in – to find out more about Google Appz follow this link.

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Don’t try harder

June 16, 2009

in Free Lessons

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Sometimes things just won’t work. You made a nice communication concept, build a campaign and everything the execution was impeccable. But when you and your client look at the results they don’t meet the expectations. Now what should you do? Normally we would think that we would try harder – but you shouldn’t. …click here to continue…

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