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You are currently using 2814 MB (98%) of your 2845 MB.

Will Google give me an exception? I really need more space. If you are not aware, Google disallows you to send emails when your Gmail space is almost full. I always need to delete messages before sending messages.

I hate it when I have finished a long urgent message and Google is giving me a "Your message could not be sent because you have exceeded your mail quota" message.

If Google really can't provide extra space, I really think they should provide the functionality for us to sort our message by attachment size. That's what I do when my Microsoft Outlook inbox is getting full.

Anyhow, Digital Inspiration has put up a very good article on this issue. These few tips had helped me a lot:

• Search "has:attachment from:me" - With this, I can easily identify messages with attachments that I have forwarded to my friends. These messages are certainly duplicate information that shouldn't be kept.
• Search "filename:jpg" - This returns a list of all emails with JPG attachments. You can use it for other file types.
• Search "before:2006/01/01" - Combine this search with the previous 2 will help to identify older messages.

It takes slightly longer to fill up my Gmail now.

A simple search for "wordpress robots file" made me realize the importance of robots.txt file. Lots of people seems to be looking for a perfect robots.txt file for WordPress blogs.

After looking at JohnTP's article, I created one that looks like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

For them who have never heard of robots.txt, it's basically a file that a web crawler would read to know what they should not crawl at your website.

I remember I recommended Real Alternative codec last time. I found something more interesting this time. It's a single codec package that includes all audio and video codecs. The XP Codec Pack from Free-Codecs is the most complete codec pack that you will ever need.

The 2.0.7.1 version includes:

• AC3Filter 1.30b
• AVI Splitter 1.0.0.7
• CDXA Reader 1.0.0.1
• CoreAAC (AAC DirectShow Decoder) 1.2.0
• CoreFlac Decoder 0.4
• FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2004.10.12
• GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder 0.1.2.0
• Matroska Splitter 1.0.2.9
• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.0 rev. 609
• OggSplitter/CoreVorbis 1.1.0.79
• RealMedia Splitter 1.0.1.1
• RadLight MPC Filter 1.0.0.4
• RadLight APE Filter 1.0.0.4
• RadLight OFR Filter 1.0.0.4
• RadLight TTA Filter 1.0.0.2
• The Codec Detective 2.0
• VSFilter (DirectVobSub) 2.37

Enjoy!

It's quite interesting to click through my blog roll list.

• "404"
• "This page has moved to XXX"
• The blog has not been updated for months (like mine).
• "This domain has expired. Click here to renew."

Hello? You guys still alive?

Not long ago, a friend asked me to assist on installing webcam on his new laptop and make it work with Skype.

In a few minutes, I had the hardware and driver installed properly, made the webcam working in software that came with the webcam, but failed to see the webcam listed in Skype options > Video > Select webcam. I thought getting the latest version would help. It didn't.

Finally, the solution was to install DirectX. Get DirectX from Microsoft DirectX website (or alternative DirectX download site). Install it and you will see the webcam listed in Skype.

I found quite a number of people having the same problem when I was searching for solution. Hope this post would work for the people out there.