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Reto Meier

Reto Meier

The author of Professional Android Application Development and more recently a Google developer advocate. My views are mine alone and not my employer's.
New update to "New Horizons" for #Android. Now supports calibration and locking the screen 'on'!
@leighberwick Absolutely - ping me an email (my twitter name at gmail.com) with some details on what you're after and I'll try to help.
Also. electronic sales will not be paying for my retirement. Or tonight's dinner.
Got my first royalty statement yesterday. Apparently my book's been translated into Korean. Thank you for your support Korea!
Unlocked HTC Hero from Amazon.co.uk - shipping July 15! http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp...
Dragging labels in Gmail is awesome! http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Lifehacker is right: "drag-and-drop labeling aims to make Gmail's labels more like familiar email folders". It's a pity that most users don't know how to make labels more efficient than folders. - Jérôme Flipo
I prefer to drag the labels to the message rather than vice-versa. - Reto Meier
Jerome: any good links of good labels methodologies? I've tried it but it is hit or miss for me, really never got it part of my routine. - Lou Paglia
No good links, most popular methodologies to "get things done" with Gmail are time-waster. - Jérôme Flipo
But here how I process my emails, using many keyboard shorcuts: 1) I always keep my inbox empty, by archiving every email (I never delete) with the "e" shortcut. 2) I label almost every message with broad categories before archiving them, either manually with the "l" shortcut or with filters: - Jérôme Flipo
for instance: from:({friendfeed.com yelp.com twitter.com linkedin facebookmail}) > label: "networking" - Jérôme Flipo
One problem is that only ingoing emails are filtered. - Jérôme Flipo
Here are some of my most used labels: account (for web services registration, password regeneration...), bank, bills, blog, networking, business (career), work (professional emails), subscription (X subscribed to you), friends, ideas (stuff that deserve further thoughts), vanity (google alerts), school... plus some contextual labels mainly for location (canada, london...) - Jérôme Flipo
thanks Jerome - Lou Paglia
Half my emails have more than one labels: linkedin messages have both networking and business, class projects for London University have "school" and "london", etc. - Jérôme Flipo
I have temporary labels for short terms projects. To get things done, I use the starring system (with the lab feature). Note that starred emails can be retrieve with specific operators: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008... - Jérôme Flipo
To benefit from the power of labels, use the Quick Links feature in Labs. For instance, you can access all your high priority emails for your family with a quick link for http://mail.google.com/mail... - Jérôme Flipo
Thus, you can easily create nested folders with quick links (tasks for school in london = has:yellow-star AND l:school AND l:london). That decreases significantly the need for new folders. Finally, to go fast to your Quick Links, enable the "go to label" shortcut in labs (press g + l). - Jérôme Flipo
Also, since some filters make some emails skip the inbox, I often check them with a quick link for is:unread. I also use the "multiple inbox" Labs feature to get an hierarchical overview of my upcoming tasks: one for "has:red-star" another for "has:yellow-star". - Jérôme Flipo
I use labels for things that I wouldn't easily be able to search for. 'registration' is all the web site account registration emails, 'contact' is for people's addresses and phone numbers, 'misdirected' is for things that should've gone to someone else. Very few of my emails get labels, because I am able to search for most emails. - Amit Patel
I also intensively use search, but I need labels to follow the progress of projects: a search cannot select dozens of messages from different contacts about a specific issue (especially when Hotmail users break threaded conversations with a "RE:RE:RE" subject). - Jérôme Flipo
Let's Screw Up the Entire Internet to Save Newspapers - http://valleywag.gawker.com/5305503...
wouldn't it be simpler to protect the news sources like Associated Press by avoiding the whole copying of their content over the internet completely in the only way possible - unplug their servers? - immaterial
Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
@stormcrow does it help that we're currently in BST -> UTC +1?
How to Catch Up with an Old Acquaintance - http://basicinstructions.net/...
Reto is a huge deception!!!
Introducing Android 1.5 NDK, Release 1 - http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009...
Do you feel the need? The need for speed? The #Android Native Development Kit, NDK 1.5, is out now: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009...
AppEngine is awesome. And fast. Very impressed.
Samsung Galaxy with #Android now available in Germany on O2 https://service.o2online.de/portal...
rt @pamelafox: Just announced..Wave APIs Samples Gallery - share your stuff, or look at other people's stuff: http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2009...
@stormcrow Absolutely!
HTC announce the Hero: http://www.htc.com/www...
With handsets like that starting to appear, I'm seriously going to consider Android when my contract's up for renewal in January. - Tony Ruscoe
By the end of the year there'll be >20 handsets to choose. The only thing to consider is *which* Android phone you'll want :) - Reto Meier
Yeah, I think that might be the problem! I guess cost will help me whittle it down though... :-) - Tony Ruscoe
As a personal developer writing code for myself and a few others, I wish I could have an easy way to target both Android and iPhone. Any recommendations? - Daniel Dulitz
Daniel, I think the most effective way might be to stick to building web apps where possible. - Tony Ruscoe
@LordofGoats "Why do they keep sending me mail?" <- "users are down 30% year on year"
At #Wimbledon? Check out IBM Seer for #Android. Augmented reality for Wimbledon attendees.
@larslindback Feel free to ping me if you have any specific questions re: Android. I'll help if I can!
@filjedi Thanks for the follow - you considering taking a look at Android?
@larslindback Thanks for the follow - you getting involved in some Android development?
@mikedroid I'm not sure -- I'll check with the publishers.
Reto thanks everyone for their birthday messages and is looking forward to Kristy's famous cheesecake!
How to Prevail in a Battle of Wills - http://basicinstructions.net/...
Road Trip 2008: Monument Valley - http://www.curious-creature.org/2009...
Great lunch with @leighberwick and Shirley at Chez Google.
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