We get tons of emails everyday, many of them useful and many are just useless. But because of the space offered by Gmail, we never delete those emails. Overtime your inbox will contains whole of emails from many senders and with many types of content in them. When you need some important email you received from your girl friend or some website or your old boss or any other important person, you will start  searching for it with the information you remember. Gmail has simple search and advanced search options to search for emails. We generally use simple search for a simple text string and advanced search when we know sender or it has an attachment..etc

I found some very very valuable information in Gmail help portal which may be extremely useful for you all. Here are the few keywords you can use in your basic search box and find the email you are looking for in your Gmail account.

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Here is a very short video by Google on how to use these search operators in Gmail.

So lets some experience on finding some old email with the information you remember about those mails. If we practice few of these important keywords we can easily find information whenever you need it.

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Adobe today announced its next versions for Flash Player and Air will be available for everyone starting early October. New version of Flash Player is Flash Player 11 and Air is Air 3. This is a significant upgrade to both Flash Player and Air which includes native support for 3D graphics. This enables Adobe to push Flash Player and Air as default platform to build games. In terms of graphics rendering performance, these new releases are 1000 times faster than previous versions, which is a amazing improvement. Flash Player 11 and Air 3 are introducing Stage 3D, a new hardware accelerated graphics rendering.

Here is a video which showcases the 3D rendering capabilities of the Flash Player 11 and Air 3

Quick overview of new features in Flash Player 11 and Air 3

Accelerated 2D/3D Graphics: Flash Player 11 and Air 3 supports full hardware accelerated rendering for 2D and 3D graphics. Due to this native support they can render graphics 1000 times faster than Flash Player 10 and Air 2. Developers can write games or apps with millions of graphical objects very smooth. New Flash Player can render 3D object with 60 frames per second. Adobe says its new payer can deliver console level quality games on Windows, Mac OS and connected televisions.

AIR Native Extensions: Adobe Air 3 now supports thousands of highly-optimized open source libraries, which enables developers to write applications which can leverage on device data, vibration control, magnetometers, light sensors, dual screens, near field communications(NFC) and many more device hardware. Native extensions also allows developers to deeply integrate Adobe Air apps with other softwares.

Captive Runtime: Developers can automatically package AIR 3 with their applications to simplify the installation process on Android, Windows and Mac OS in addition to Apple iOS. Users no longer have to download and update AIR separately on any of these platforms, or BlackBerry Tablet OS, which includes AIR built in. In addition, with the captive runtime option developers can manage version updates to their application independent of general AIR updates by Adobe.

Content Protection: Premium video content can now be protected using Adobe Flash Access® 3 across all supported platforms, including new support for mobile platforms.

HD Video Quality Across Platforms: Full frame rate HD video can now be displayed within AIR applications on Apple iOS devices using H.264 hardware decoding. Rich applications on televisions are also able to deliver HD video with 7.1 channel surround sound.

Rental and Subscriptions Support: With support for Adobe Flash Access and Adobe Pass, content publishers can take advantage of rental and subscription options for more flexible business models and offer TV Everywhere content to more than 80 percent of U.S. pay TV subscribers.

Compatibility: 64-bit support on Linux, Mac OS and Windows ensures a seamless experience with the latest 64-bit browsers.

If you want to look at the examples of 3D games built for Flash Player 11, visit Adobe Gaming.

These features will also be available to mobile platforms including Apple iOS, Android and BlackBerry Tablet OS as a pre-release version. Final version of Flash Player 11 for mobile devices will be available in near future. With the release of Flash Player 11 and Air 3, Adobe may target to keep their position in desktop and start dominating in mobile devices also. Very high improvement in the Air 3 performance benefits developers to focus on Flash related technologies and deploy them to mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, Playbook.

Lets wait for the date and meanwhile let us know what do you think about these new versions?

New version of Windows is based on Metro UI which was introduced with Windows Phone 7. Microsoft taken utmost measures to make Windows users will have consistent user experience across devices. Windows 8 also improved in many areas to let users to manage their computer in much better way. One example for that is revamped Windows Task Manager.

Now that Windows 8 is based on Metro UI and new eco system, Microsoft also made it very very simple for developers to build applications for Windows. It is heaven for developers to build applications with wide range of hardware APIs available in Windows 8.

To kick start exploring how Windows 8 is and start developing apps for Windows 8, Microsoft letting anyone to download Windows 8 developer preview. No registration required to download. Here is the download information.

Downlaod Windows 8 Developer Preview and Widnows 8 Preview Guide

You can download Windows 8 Developer Preview with Developer tools 64 bit version(4.8 GB), Windows 8 Developer preview without developer tools 64 bit version(3.6 GB) and Windows Developer preview without developer tools 32 bit version(2.8 GB).

Microsoft also offering a technical preview for their new Live Connect. With Live Connect developers can build applications which can connect to user’s Skydrive, Hotmail and Messenger with APIs using Single Sign On(SSO).

Coming to hardware requirements you dont need any hardware upgrade required to run Windows 8 if you already having a Windows Vista or Windows 7 compatible machine. Here is the list of system hardware requirements for Windows 8.

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
• Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch

If you have any issues installing Windows 8 Developer Preview keep eye on Dreams Rain as I will write another post detailing installation instructions.

Enjoy with new Windows:)

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