GMail tip: "To be filtered" label

I use GMail's filters a lot, and in particular have a "Newsletters" label that keeps "bacn" from getting into my Inbox (and instead just lights up my ambient email notifier green.)

I've added a "to be filtered" label that I can apply to anything that slips into the Inbox and then later on, when I have time, I can look at all these messages, select them in groups and use the "Filter messages like these" command to make sure they don't bother me again.

This solves two problems: being taken out of the "flow" to create a filter, and perpetually handling the items manually and never getting around to creating a filter.

Recovering Accidentally Deleted Files with Undelete Plus

After accidentally deleting about 100gb of recorded TV programs, 
I spent a bit of time looking around for a utility that would 
let me recover them easily (God knows why this isn't built into Windows...)

After trying a lot of utilities, I eventually found Undelete PLUS. This scanned and found all the deleted files very quickly and I was able to copy them to another drive.

The program's UI is not particularly intuitive, and a general flaw with all these programs is that you must copy the recovered files to a separate disk to avoid destroying other yet-to-be recovered files (which is a pain with 100gb of files...)

However, it's free, and it works! Download or bookmark it in case you need it one day.

(I'm using Windows XP SP2 with NTFS formatted drives.)

Death to Caps Lock

See also: http://capsoff.blogspot.com/