April 28, 2004GmailMartWell, at last the gmail arrived! The first point is that the service as other services by Google is designed real simple, and therefore very efficient. Although it might not look very fancy, but it is absolutly usable. There is no pop3 or forwarding facility currently available, but in the helps section they have promised to deliver this options in near future, BUT! probably with some costs! The idea is simple, when you receive a new mail, it comes in your inbox. you can then delete it or archive the mail. when you archive the email you will no more see it in the inbox. you may also set some tags or add it to a favorites style folder which is called starred. there is no folder thing available. you may also define some automated filters, so that upon receiving a new mail, an action would be taken. there is no such a thing as sorting the mails. you have to search for the mail you are looking for, which sounds rational. the bad point is that you can not search the archive or inbox with message size! you can just search for those emails that have an attachment or not. This way if someday your quota would be exceeded, it would be almost impossible to do anything! you can not search for the big attachments that have taken your quota. another bad thing is that the archive is not a compressed entity. I have been using outlook for about many years now, and all of my emails, that are not few, are compressed and archived therefore overall they don't take a big storage. defenitely not a gig. Although I am yet impressed with 1 Gig storage, and yet have to play with other functionalities of gmail, it seems like a wallmart that is trying to give you everything bigger! but who will win at the end? do we get addicted to use big storage?!...
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April 22, 2004Free ServiceUpdated Probably you have recently seen or heard about the news on different weblogs that the spymac.com is providing a 1GB email address for free plus some extras such as a weblog. The news came just after Google announced testing a similar service. probably the spys in spymac had a prior knowledge of the project or anything. One would expect a very powerful and dependable service by Google, but to be honest although the spymac's job looks perfect but I couldn't be so sure of spymac! until today that I got this error while trying to login to my new spymac mailbox. can't create a new thread (errno 11). If you are not out of available memory, you can consult a manual for a possible OS-dependent bug I wonder what is their OS! well, probably one in a thousand might have got this chance to view this error message (that I was proudly one - I have to buy a lotto ticket tonight!) but have you ever seen an error message while searching something on google!!! That makes the difference! here is another error!! another day - another error
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April 19, 2004Culture revisitedPersian New Year comes with a set of many different celebrations and traditions. there are many arguments regarding the origin of some of these traditions, some believe that the traditions are ancient persian culture and resemble old religions of people living in Iran, such as zoroasterianism (M-W:a Persian religion founded in the 6th century B.C. by the prophet Zoroaster, promulgated in the Avesta, and characterized by worship of a supreme god Ahura Mazda who requires good deeds for help in his cosmic struggle against the evil spirit Ahriman). But there are also some arguments regarding the way people have tried to reject arabic influence on the persian culture. Anyways, It is obvious that these traditions have changed some a little, and some alot during thousand years. there is not much effort on critisising these parts of the culture, perhaps because it seems not to be very harmful to anybody at least in comparison with some other beliefs, or perhaps due to the ancient history of the culture, it is not much anticipated to ask if it is a fair tradition or not.
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April 11, 2004Sky CaptainUPDATED Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow casting Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie will be released June 25th, check the official website and it's trailer. The correct release date is Sept. 17th! I don't know where did I got June 25th!?
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April 07, 2004Inside OutThough I hate to give a link to such sites, but there was a bit of interesting point in it! and afterall, you don't need to click on the link (I'll put the image)!! 1. The publisher of the site is "The Islamic Revolution Cultural-Research Institute for Preserving and Publishing Works by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenie"! 2. The site is in 3 languages currently, (arabic - english - persian). In the persian site the title used is: "Ayatollah al-uzma" [Grand Ayatollah], when he is referred to as "Ayatollah" only in arabic and english. 3. The site contains his speeches, bio, and islamic questions answered. Question number one: Does the leader of the Reveloution have problems in managing subordinate organizations, that there are two parallel organizations doing the same thing, or he is maintaining redundancy in order to gaurd the accuracy of sacred words!!! be ghol e hossein! baba tavazo'!
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April 04, 2004New YearWolfram has a very very rich knowledge base for mathematics. Also This is a translation of Omar Khayam's Rubaiyat by Edward FitzGerald on amazon. Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
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