One request for Gmail

Please give us a "Flag" or "Follow-up" option on our e-mails.I never thought I'd say this, but take a page our of the Windows Outlook book and let me flag my emails to follow up on later. I can't keep track of all of the e-mails that I receive in a day and often forget about many and in turn receive irate e-mails from people because I have a bad memory.

Outdated save icons mean nothing

Have you Windows users noted what the "save" icon is in almost every programme available? It's a floppy disk.A FLOPPY DISK?!?!?I baby sat my four year old cousin, Alex, on Saturday morning. I was sitting watching TV and he was mucking about in the TV cabinet when he brought me something to look at. It was a strange, old, ancient relic that he could not figure out. He didn't understand what this thing could possibly do. He turned upside down, rightside up, backward, forward, inwards until he finally asked me,"Nic, what it is?" So I answered him with a simple, "It's a tape, VHS. It has movies on it," subtle yet calm response. "But DVD Nic, that has movie, what's this?" came his response.Basically my motivation for writing this is simple. How can Windows still be making use of the floppy disk as the icon for saving and stability when my little four year old cousin has never even seen, let alone used, a VHS tape before? It's time to move on.People under the age of 16 or even 18 simply know that that rectangular-ish thingy in the top left next to that file-looking-folder thing is meant to represent save. So they click it and it's saved.When was last time you recall using a floppy, stiffy or VHS tape for anything?

Never Reformat Your HardDrive...Ever

I decided to reformat my Mecer DL70 yesterday. Public holiday I thought, good time to get it done I thought, Quick and easy I thought. I was wrong. So wrong.First I reformatted the HDD, that was OK, it's not a hard thing to do. Then the trouble started. The keyboard wasn't working. This meant that I couldn't enter the product key to activate and continue installing Windows. Joy, Windows.Then panic stations kicked in, big time. I freaked, found another Windows installation disk, reformatted HDD again and attempted another install. Not so much. Same issue, no keyboard action, no keys outputting anything on the screen, no nadda. Then I did what any freaked out person would do in this situation, call for help. So I did, I called the Vin (not Vin Diesel). Mr Maher has some air of solution about him. It seems to me that he can solve a problem just by hearing what it is, no action involved. At 19:30 last night the Vin answered his phone, spoke some shit to me for a bit and BAM the keyboard was fixed. Bastard, he didn't even have to tell me to do anything constructive and he had fixed the stupid keyboard.So hurdle #1 was overcome. Then hurdle #2 has stamped it's authority and prowess. I have no drivers, for anything, no modem, wireless, printer, etc etc etc. Nothing. This sucks. I was told to download them, how pray tell me? I cannot get on to the internet. I am at a loss.I am now making use of my mother's laptop to write this post and get some work done. I will then be heading off to the Mac shop in Sandton City to make my purchases I reckon. They tell me not to do it, they tell me to save my money, screw it, money is a commodity, I will have more of it by the end of the month!!