Thursday, April 14, 2016

How to Manage Outlook Effectively

Keep monitoring and prioritizing the mails are big challenge when you work with busy Mailers. In this post, I would like to bring you some suggestions/idea to manage the mails especially Outlook. Controlling time-wasters and focusing on important tasks will lead to achieve long-term goals.

First time First Serve
Whenever you read an email, flag it or decide what action or response it needs. Instead of reading it again, do at first time. Don’t read first few lines and keep it for later reading. It kills your time. Prioritize the task by reminders or Follow up flags.




Divide and Rule
Split the mails and tag it with related category. So that it gets easier to just glance at the e-mails and know, how much work you have from which category. Mails can be possible in below categories like Manager follow up, client follow up, team follow up, pending action etc., so tag it and work accordingly
Rule it
One of the best way to manage your work mailbox is to create rules. If you receive multiple emails from various senders and which you don’t want to miss ever, you can create a rule and move these e-mails directly to a designated folder. Rules can be created for all mails from particular sender or particular keywords or particular scenario to push it in particular folder or make alert or custom reply. This will help to focus attention for a particular sender.
Goto Manage Rules and Alerts-> Create new Rule, select new

Know how to search
Art of search is one of the key aspect in Digital world. Here in Outlook, when you click the search box, Outlook brings the SEARCH tag with multiple feature. If you click Has Attachments, it will brings you the mail with attachment. It gives options of search by From sender name or Subject. Unread emails can be grabbed quickly here. We can set chronological limit for the search. Your recent search strings can be reused or viewed in “Recent Searches” Option.

Responsible Responds

Though not every email seeks the reply, however important mails are looking for your response. So it is advisable to keep responding to the mail so that reminder mails will be avoided. Keep using Out of Office features so that senders can understand and act accordingly. For critical mails, set auto replies like “working on it” so that send keep wait till your response.

Monday, January 11, 2016

CDN for javascript libraries

It is best practice to have content delivery network to host common library files. This post wil bring you the few informations about available well known CDNs. For hosting Jquery below are the available locations

Google CDN
It provides a high availability, low latency resource for delivering scripts to websites. It hosted Libraries including jQuery, AngularJS, Prototype and Dojo.

ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/[VERSION NO]/jquery-ui.min.js
ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/[VERSION NO]/themes/[THEME NAME]/jquery-ui.min.css
for details list of libraries are provided at https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/#jquery

Microsoft CDN

For websites built in ASP.NET, Microsoft’s CDN provides a support for JavaScript frameworks without having delay. The same files can be access for other websites as well. Below is the path

ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/[VERSION NO]/jquery-ui.min.js
ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/[VERSION NO]/themes/[THEME NAME]/jquery-ui.min.css
For more detailed Microsoft CDN content visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/ajax/cdn/overview

jQuery CDN

code.jquery.com/ui/[VERSION NO]/jquery-ui.min.js
code.jquery.com/ui/[VERSION NO]/themes/[THEME NAME]/jquery-ui.min.css
jquery dot com provides various version for UI, mobile, color etc., visit http://code.jquery.com

Yandex CDN

A russian provider who also provide Javascript libraries and CSS including Bootstarp, angular JS
https://yastatic.net/jquery/[VERSION NO]/jquery.min.js

It provides Backbone.js, Bootstrap, D3.js, jQuery, Lo-Dash, Raphaёl, React, SWFObject, Underscore.js, bem-components. visit
https://tech.yandex.ru/jslibs/


http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/

community-powered CDN https://cdnjs.com/api

Beside this, there are many commercial entities to provide CDN services for hosting custom contents. you can host your own scripts,

images, multimedia files without delay.
www.akamai.com
www.cloudflare.com
www.fastly.com
for more providers visit http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2015/02/cdn-marketshare-alexa-fortune-500.html