The madness has to stop. What was once a 30 minute annoyance is now my full-time job.  Here are 5 time saving tips:

5: Add a http://three.sentenc.es/ email signature and keep them short.

“Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.

three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less. It’s that simple.”

Example signature:
——————————————–
Q: Why is this email three sentences or less?
A: http://three.sentenc.es
——————————————–

4: Type “Sent from iPhone” under your short responses.  People don’t expect long responses when you’re on your phone. Don’t forget to mispell a few words.

This all looks graet +1!!
Sent from iPhone.

3: Create a ‘VIP’ filter. Easy to do on GMail.  Add your boss, investors, and close friends. Flag them red and throw them in a separate folder. This is the first place I check every morning.

2: (Gmail only) Keep the spam out.  If you’re giving your address to a potentially shady website, tack on +spam to the end, example: yourname+spam@gmail.com. You can then filter those emails into a spam folder you check periodically. (ProTip: the +spam is a variable that can be anything you want, eg. yourname+football@gmail.com etc., make as many as you like)

1: Setup an email bankruptcy filter.  This is a little bit of a dick move, but if you’re getting hundreds of new emails a day, it just might work.

Step 1: Create a filter that auto-responds to all unopened emails > 14 days old w/the following message:

Your email (below) is now 14 days old and has not been opened.  To minimize email buildup your email has now been placed in the archive.  Should you still require a response simply respond back and you’ll automatically be added to the priority queue.  Thank you.

Step 2: Setup another filter that looks for the text “Your email (below)”, this will catch the email responses back to you from those still requiring your response.  Filter these into a special folder you check and respond to daily.

Good luck!

Via Kevin Rose

Here are some of my favourites from the last few months. Some names are blacked out to protect the innocent. Some are not, because they aren’t using their real names so they’re already anonymous.

We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.

This is pretty sad, really. Wave was a product ahead of it’s time and, despite a legion of loyal fans (including me!), didn’t have the uptake that Google had hoped for. I had plans on moving my blog, and pretty much my entire online life, over to Google Wave and other Google Apps.

Perhaps Google will be incorporating what they’ve learned from Wave and Buzz into their social networking foray. Google recently dropped $100M into the laps of games developers Zynga.

Related articles

• Google Kills Wave, Its Collaboration Tool (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
• Google Wave Crashes (searchengineland.com)
• RIP Google Wave (money.cnn.com)
• Google throws in the towel, Google Wave to shut down (geek.com)
• Google Drops Google Wave (pcworld.com)
• Google Wave’s goodbye (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

• They look good, and appear united and professional
• They’re easy to remember
• They’re meaningful
• They can be reused when you move ISP
• They can be reused when someone else is called

I might open it up to the general population but for now it’s just leadership. Soon I’ll set up mailing lists for PEC organisations etc. This system worked well at Canning when I was there.

Is it cheating if I forward all my email to Gmail? My domain email all for appearance and vanity, but Gmail is what I use to manage it.

Google Chrome is an almost complete ground up web browser design, making much better usage of memory management:

With the current versions of Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, individual Web page tabs are hosted in a single process – a model that is efficient (in terms of memory and resource consumption) but also prone to catastrophic failures: A single crashed tab can easily take down the entire browser application. Chrome seeks to eliminate this problem by isolating each tab within its own application process, then leveraging the built-in memory protection capabilities of modern, preemptively multitasking operating systems to keep code and data in a failing tab from stomping on other processes. So now, when that buggy Flash applet on your favorite humor site goes belly up, it won’t necessarily take down the entire browser – the processes running in other tabs will keep chugging along.

Google Chrome is very fast:

On each one of these tests, Chrome clearly trounced the competition. I hope benchmarking experts and developers will weigh in with comments about how well these tests represent true JavaScript performance on the Web–either for ordinary sites or for rich Web apps.

Google Chrome is very secure:

Google’s Chrome was the only browser left standing—and in fact, was completely untested. None of the researchers at the competition even tried to attack Chrome… Google’s sandboxing shouldn’t be impenetrable, but it is sufficient to make the standard harmless exploit payload—starting up Windows calculator—harder to do.

MSIE just doesn’t have what it takes to run Google Wave:

Google Wave depends on strong JS and DOM rendering performance to provide a desktop-like experience in the browser. HTML5’s offline storage and web workers will enable us to add great features without having to compromise on performance. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer, still used by the majority of the Web’s users, has not kept up with such fairly recent developments in Web technology.

But if you are stuck with uncompromising IT staff or your own ignorance, then you can install the Google Chrome Frame into MSIE for a Wave experience by logging into Wave.

I logged into facebook and found that Mark Webber had accepted a friend request I made. I can’t actually remember when I made the request, but it seems he’s finally got around to hiring someone to start bulk accepting them. So it’s good to know I’m one of his 2600 closest friends. I’ll invite him over for dinner next time he’s in town.

I’m also friends with Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki who probably makes the best use of Facebook and Twitter of anyone I’ve seen. He invites people to hit him up on these during his live radio show on Triple J and sometimes gets good feedback.

I can’t remember how, but I managed to become friends with Sara Ramirez at one point. It was interesting watching her profile and how she attempted to manage the many “I luv u so much” posts on her wall. To her credit she gave it a good go, but it lasted only a few weeks before she bailed out. Facebook isn’t really the place for celebrities especially if they want privacy.

Also, I heard my sister’s cat got run over last night. Very sad as Natalie really loves her animals.