MailTags is one of the best plugin I ever used for my Mail application. I found this plugin when I had to organize my inbox with follow ups and todos. The plugin intergration with the application is very good.

Integrated Interface - Use MailTags’ convenient side panel to add tags keywords, project, priority, notes to your messages. Use contextual menus to tag several messages at the same time. All of MailTags interfaces feel built in, not added on.

IMAP Support - Save your tags to your IMAP servers so you can access them from multiple computers.

List Display - Display your tags in extra columns in the message list view. See due dates as they approach.

Works with Mail’s Smart Mailboxes - Build smart mailboxes that search your messages for keywords, projects and even due dates.

Works with Mail’s Rules - Set tags automatically as you receive Mail by using MailTags actions when creating a Mail rule. Use with Mail Act-On to create keystroke rules to tag messages.

Works with Mail’s Search - Search for your tags by using Mail’s search field, narrow the search to keywords, projects or notes.  Use simple and/or logic to find tags.

Tag Mail 3.0 Notes - Create a note for yourself with Mail 3.0 notes feature and tag it with projects, keywords, tickle dates and priorities for future reference. Find those notes in smart mailboxes.

RSS support - Tag news items for future reference. Ideal for workflow management where a RSS subscription notifies you of forum posts, support requests or tasks.

iCal Support - Create To Dos and Events in iCal directly from Mail and maintain the link between the original message and the items in iCal.

Send Tags in Messages - Not only can you tag your outgoing mail for your purpose, you can send tags with the messages to create an informal workflow with your recipients.

Incoming Reply Tagging - Automatically copy tags from earlier messages when receiving replies.  Maintain tags in a discussion even if the other correspondent doesn’t have MailTags.

Add functionality with Extras - MailTags new extensible architecture means that you will be able to add functionality to MailTags by adding an Extra.  Planned extras include components that work with Google Calendar, TaDa list and other web based task/event management system. We plan to publish an Extras SDK so others can extend MailTags.

Applescript Compatible - Construct Applescript work flows that access your MailTags data to use them in other applications.

All for just 30$. Real worth for money

Most of the people in software industry use Gantt charts to manage the projects. Recently with help of my friend Nishanth I found this wonderful tool named GanttProject.

Sample screenshot of GanttProject

The most amazing things about this GanttProject are

• Available for major operating system Windows, Linux and OSX.
• Free - No need to pay any $$$
• Open source
• Task hierarchy and dependencies
• Gantt chart
• Resource load chart
• Generation of PERT chart
• PDF and HTML reports
• MS Project import/export
• WebDAV based groupwork

Google has released its new browser “Chrome” today. It is released as beta (I really don’t understand what is the meaning of beta in Google. Can you believe Gmail) for windows alone. This browser is based on webkit rendering engine. which gives web developers a big relief in rendering issues and web standards. The good feature in chrome I really loved about is each tab runs in its own sand boxed environment. When an tab crashes it only the tab and not the whole browser.

Next step was to download the browser and test it. It was amazingly fast. And really felt the browser was really light. I loved the simple and efficent GUI. Creating application out web was really smart move. There is no option for extending the browser with extension and themes. May be it is on it way.

Will Google target it like Adobe Air?
Will Google create more API inside chrome to support their web application ?
Have thousands of question rising up my mind and only time will tell those answers. But these guys are planning big time to reach more market share in web. They have already started to advertise about the new browser on Google homepage.

Will chrome dominate the browser wars by end of this decade ?????

It was weekend and suddenly I decided to go out somewhere from the boring Ginger Hotel. I called up Pradeep and asked whether he was ready to go with me to some place. He was cool and we decided we go to some resort in Varkala. We went to Preeth Beach Resort in Varkala. It was an amazing place to spend your time. Had nice massage and was spending most of time in pool.

If anyone planning to spent some quality time with your friends at Varaka, Preeth beach resort is one of the good options

Last week David Sheridan from London was here with us in Trivandrum office. With few flippers we planned for a one day trip to some main tourists location in Trivandrum. Places we visited are

• Padmanabhaswamy temple
• Kuthira Malika
• Napier Museum
• Kovalam Beach

Some cool pictures by me and Saifudeen

It was good fun and had a chance to know everyone well

It has been quite sometime since I concentrated on SEO and my blog. Yesterday I was ready a forum where they were chatting about page rank update by Google. Out of curiosity I checked my blog and It got promoted to rank 5. After 2 long year my blog finally got page rank 5.

Organic and white hat seo pays the reward but it takes very long time. I guess it is good and is statble