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Why I don’t use Gmail Priority Inbox

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This week Gmail has been rooling out a new feature called Priority Inbox.
After turning it on for 24 hours, I ended up turning it off. Why? Because I believe it clutters my inbox more than it helps.

Priority Inbox sections

The sections in wish Gmail divides Priority Inbox don’t seem to make a lot of sense.
For me:
Important and Unread = Unread
Starred = Read
Everything Else = Spam/Garbage

What is Everything Else!?

The one section I really dont like and also the one that you cannot remove (all others you can change or remove) is Everything Else.

All the emails that go to the Everything Else section can only be of 2 types:
-Spam and should be on the spam folder
-Important and should be out of this section

If I receive an email it must be important for me or else is spam/garbage.

Read Unread

All I need in my inbox are my unread messages so I can read them or the ones that I already read and need to come back.

All other messages should go to the archive, spam or trash. Isn’t that simpler than having some blue bars and emails changing place?

I simply love, adore and absolutely need Gmail

I don’t like this feature but Gmail is the only email client I can imagine myself using today. I love it, it’s my only suggestion to anyone in need of an email account and whenever my computer is on gmail is running on my browser.

BTW – making the Mark read, unread, starred, unstarred options go to a combox, not that smart also. Prettier but annoying.

What it’s like to live on the streets?

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I always had this curiosity about people that live on the streets. How they live like? What do they think? How they ended up living there? all sorts cross my mind…

We may judge them for being drunks or whatever and some of them are but not all and in the end of the day they are people like you and me that somehow made choices and ended up there.

Today I came across invisiblepeople.tv. A place where Mark Horvath shares his video interviews with homeless people.

You can find many interesting interviews and get to listen and know more about people that you would normally not speak with.

I found the next couple interesting because when asked what would they want if they could have 3 wishes, none of them mentioned money. More, the girl even says she would like to be successful but not money wise.

OK… I know one could say they are deluded or whatever. But is just curious.

If you want to follow this project subscribe to the InvisiblePeopleTV YouTube Channel.

This also reminds me of the Interview Project by David Lynch that is somewhat related to this and that I also like very much. This last one is more artistical and a bit dark.

Would I go on a date with you?

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Today I got the following flowchart from OkCupid and as I am sure there are loads of girls dieing to ask me out but are afraid of me turning them down I decided to share it :P

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Its not all that complex and there is loads more to the equation but it is pretty smart for the little information I gave them.

Most of all it is really cool and the loads of trends and stats OkCupid have been sharing are getting loads of hype.

I did this post mostly because I think OkCupid is the dating site to keep an eye on and to use (shame it is only in English). The design is great, the usability is good and its free.

Compared to the other free options and the actual number one plentyoffish I would choose OkCupid without looking back. Plentyoffish design reminds me GeoCities (RIP) and it feels like a market, not a fun place where you can find someone that you would like to meet.

But things are looking up for OkCupid:

If I were Markus Frind I would be getting worried.

Uma pergunta quanto à ZON

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Se eu desenvolver um site, o colocar online e todos os clientes da ZON não conseguirem aceder ao mesmo para que numero de telefone, email, morada, departamento devo contactar?

Já tentei vários e fiquei pasmado com a resposta:

Só um cliente ZON é que pode fazer reclamação da falha de um site

Mais, dizem não ter um único acesso à internet para confirmar a situação e verificar que de facto a mesma existe. Será possível que em todo o apoio técnico não tenham um único acesso?

Esta situação é de me deixar pasmado.

No meu caso tenho um servidor com diversos sites alojados e nenhum deles pode ser acedido pela ZON desde as 17horas de hoje.

Soluções? A ZON não tem.

Podia a ZON ter um bom serviço? Podia, mas não era a mesma coisa

Google Chrome View Source

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IMHO view source from Google Chrome acts really odd.

When you click view source a new tab opens and the page is loaded all over again.

Maybe there is a very valid reason for this. But I cant find one. To me this can even be problem.

Examples:

  • If you pass values via POST you cant get the results as Chrome does not re-POST it just issues a new request using GET and a new session. (I found a couple “Notice: Undefined variable” on some of my code, but this was my problem as I wasnt doing proper verifications) But anyway you never get the POST values and see the source for your page.
  • If you have a counter or random dinamic content you will never get to see exactly what you get on the rendered html you have on the initial tab.

A work around is to use “inspect element” but its not the same. Its great for some things but its not the same.

If someone finds a valid reason for this “view source” behaviour I would love to know.

User Experience Professionals

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I just order two tickets to http://www.ux-lx.com/

I am really happy that this kind of events happen in Portugal as it gives us (Portuguese developers) a chance to learn and share experiences and knowledge.

UPDATE: minutes after I emailed about this I received a friendly response and the issue bellow was solved. Great job.

I am not one to normally nag and complain about stuff, but for a user experience professionals conference this menu issue made me laugh:

Anyway, and as I started complaining having http://www.ux-lx.com/index.html and http://www.ux-lx.com/ both working is not a very good thing for SEO.

P.S. – Sorry about this guys at http://www.ideias-imagens.com/ but just couldnt resist.