Two improvements to contact groups - Official Gmail Blog

Arranging your current Gmail contacts straight into groups will save you lot of time whenever you’re composing emails to several individuals at the same time. For instance, in case you build a “Family” group, rather than dealing with an email to your mother, father, brother and sister, you are able to simply begin typing “Family” and Gmail will certainly finish the rest. Today Gmail making a couple of enhancements to contact groups which will make them simpler to create and manage.

First improvement will let’s say you have a listing of colleagues you believe you’ll wish to get in touch with once again sometime soon. Currently, you are able to paste that list into the Add to group menu when viewing your “colleagues ” group to fill or even expand it.

Second, Gmail added the ability to specify which one of your contact’s email addresses you want to use in a given group. So, for example, you can now use your friend’s personal address in your “Poker Buddies” group and that same friend’s work address in your “Coworkers” group.

Two improvements to contact groups - Official Gmail Blog
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Music Video Created by using Kinect Hack

The music band Echo Lake performs new music which feels like dreamy indie rock using their mixture of up-tempo, feel good and aural sound. Their most recent music video clip is given a similar feeling. However, you’d be amazed to find out this video clip was shot using an Xbox Kinect. They only useda simple Kinect hack.

Echo Lake's song, Young Silence, and the video is actually a mixof electronic digital sound. The designers utilized customized Cinder-based applications to obtain the video footage ideal and also the high quality.

Enjoy the song Young Silence Kinect hack music video by Echo Lake.

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Why 13.3 inch laptop is best portable device in the market

This is the age of smart phones and tablet computers. Still I would say reasonable size laptop would be the most effective portable device for education and business purposes. However, what is so special with the 13 inch laptop. That is the most reasonable and smallest size of screen you can watch continuously for longer hours. Secondly, it is the most reasonable size and weight for carrying around. Practically 13 inch laptop would be the ideal device to take with you.



What are the 13 inch laptops in the market?

Toshiba Portege R700 Laptop

Toshiba Introduces World’s lightest 13.3-Inch Full-Performance. It weight only 1.45 Kg. It powered by Core i7 processor and even comes with DVD drive and two USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, RGB, ExpressCard, optional nine-cell battery for 12.5 hours of use.

Apple MacBook 13 inch Laptop

13 inch MacBook is one of the favorite. It has long lasting battery for which can run 10 hours. 2.73 cm thin and it only weight 2.13 Kgs. USB ports and CD drive would be essential even though we live in cloud computing world we still use CDs DVDs and USB memory sticks.

Toshiba Satellite Pro T130 Laptop

Another powerful highly portable laptop that has 11 hours battery life. It only weight less than 2 Kgs. However it has a Intel® Core™2 Duo processor and 2GB DDR3 (expandable to 4GB) RAM.

HP Pavilion dm3 Laptop

HP Pavilion dm3 Laptop another 13.3 inch stylish laptop which is weight only 1.8Kgs. It is not that powerful inter of the processor and the it is lack of DVD drive. If you consider the price this one would be a good choice, however it is not going to be the best or latest 13.3 inch laptop.


Dell Latitude 13 Laptop

Dell Latitude is the 13 inch laptop solution from Dell. It is less than 1.52 kg with reasonable processor and 4GB RAM.

Sony VAIO VPCY115FGS Laptop

Sony always produce expensive , reliable and stylish laptops. Sony VAIO VPCY115FGS Laptop is Sony 13.3 inch laptop.


Samsung QX310 Laptop

Samsung extra slim, extra fast and extra mobility 13.3 laptop has 7.8 hour battery life and it only weight 2.09 Kgs. It is powered by Intel® Core™ i5 Processor and 4GB of RAM.

Apple MacBook Air 13 inch Laptop

Macbook Air is another great creation of Apple which has a 7 hours of battery life and its weight is only 1.32kgs. Super light and portable laptop.

Other 13.3 solutions in the market.

• Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 Laptop
• Toshiba Satellite U500 Laptop
• Asus U30Jc Laptop
• HP ProBook 4320s Laptop

If you are really looking for portable computer to work for longer hours 13.3 inch laptop will be ideal. How about a 13.3 inch tablet.

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